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TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE : Name : Cusseter Cuthbirt Eiland Death date : 02 Oct 1939 Death
place : Greenville, Hunt, Texas Gender : Male Race or color (on document) : White Age
at death : 68 years 9 months 15 days Birth date : 17 Dec 1870 Birth place : Texas Marital
status : Married Spouse name : Beulah Scott Eiland Father name : N. B. Eiland Father
birth place : Ark. Mother name : Dovie Bethel Mother birth place : Ark. Occupation :
Owner Service Station Residence : Greenville, Texas Burial place : Dumas, Texas Burial
date : 04 Oct 1939
Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner, Tue, 3 Oct 1939 C.C. Eiland, Well
Known Business Man, Passes Away at his home, 2904 Jones St where he had been confined to his bed for
thirteen days. C.C. (Cedar) Eiland, well known Greenville business man and one of the best known citizens
in this section of the state, died at 4:20 o'clock Monday afternoon. Mr. Eiland, a resident of Hunt
County practically all of his life, has been in failing health for several months.
Last rites
will be observed at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Services will be held from the Neer and Lybrand chapel,
with Dr. C.B. Jackson pastor of the First Baptist church officiating. The body will then be carried
to Dumas for interment. Pallbearers will be: John Cain, W.O. Southern, (unreadable), Terry Bunch, Henry
Hammack and Creed Voyles.
A native of Hunt County, Mr. Eiland was born on December 17, 1870,
in the Shady Grove community, east of Greenville and was reared to manhood in that section. With the
exception of a few years in West Texas, Mr. Eiland had spent all his life in Hunt County and was one
of its best known and most highly esteemed citizens. He had countless friends who were today joining
the bereaved relatives in mourning his passing.
Mr. Eiland had been engaged in business in Greenville
for many years and his fair and courteous treatment and eagerness to serve won innumerable friends.
Honest and upright and always willing to give his fellowman the benefit of any doubt, Mr. Eiland gained
the reputation of being a man who would not take unfair advantage of those he dealt with in business
transactions.
He enjoyed the associations of his friends and stood ready to render them whatever
assistance he could at any time. For years he had been active in civic affairs and willingly aided in
the furtherance of projects for the benefit of Greenville and this section. Mr. Eiland was a member
of the Greenville Masonic lodge and the Royal Neighbors.
He was first married to Exar Alexander
and she preceded him in death on January 8, 1910. Later he was married to Annie Dora Morgan and she
died on December 31, 1911. Sometime later he was married to Beulah Scott, who survives him. Also surviving
are three children Mrs. C.P. Sanford and Miss Annie Dora Eiland of Greenville and Mrs. Estelle Armbrust
of Los Angeles; two grandchildren, Miss Elaine Sanford and Fagg Sanford, Jr. of Greenville; two sisters,
Mrs. M.T. Alexander of Lubbock and Mrs. Fred Hale of Trent, Texas, and two brothers, W.W. Eiland of
Stanton and B.B. Eiland of Shreveport, La. One son, Jake D. Eiland preceded him in death on January
28, 1918.
Home in 1900: Justice Precinct 3, Motley, Texas Ce* Eiland 27 Esar Eiland 25 Jake
Eiland 2
Home in 1910: Justice Precinct 1, Moore, Texas Ater C Eiland 39 , wd Jake Eiland
12 Clas Eiland 9
Home in 1920: Greenville, Hunt, Texas Ceder C Eiland 49 Beulah Eiland
46 Lillian Eiland 3 7/12
1930 United States Federal Census Home in 1930: Greenville, Hunt,
Texas Cusster C Edard 59 , merchant, retal merchant Beulah Edard 56 Estelle Edard 13
GREENVILLE
MORNING HERALD, THU, 7 FEB 1918, : 2 HAS RETURNED HOME (FROM DUMAS,C.C. EILAND;SON JAKE BURIED) EILAND,
C.C. EILAND, JAKE
GREENVILLE MORNING HERALD, TUE, 5 FEB 1918, : 1 TAKEN TO DUMAS FOR BURIAL
(JACOB EILAND,RESTS BESIDE MOTHER) EILAND, B.B., BROTHER OF EILAND, C.C., SON OF EILAND, JACK EILAND,
JACOB MCMURRAY, GRAHAM, REV., OFFICIANT SPRAGINS, C.A., REV., OFFICIANT
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