Evangeline Morgan and Louis Marfell (General)

by LindaHinzman, Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 22:47 (5161 days ago) @ kpegler

Hi - thanks for posting again. I am Evangline's great granddaughter, granddaughter of Evelyn. I met your grandmother Kate and her sister Olive a couple of times in the late 1960s or early 1970s when they visited my grandmother in Illinois. I have some photos of that I need to dig out that I'd be happy to e-mail to you, as well as a lovely photo of Evangeline and Evelyn taken shortly after they came to America.

Evangeline is not buried in the Ruardeen cemetery. Jeff Sleeman (Olive's son, now deceased), I believe, was the primary person behind putting a marker for her in Ruardeen cemetery partly due to the "scandal" I believe. Evangeline is buried in Peru, Illinois (City Cemetery) in an unmarked grave. Her death date is 12 Sept 1931. I can e-mail you her death certificate, obituary, etc. if you would like. I also have promised to e-mail her and William's marriage certificate to a couple of other folks and have not done so yet. If you would like it as well, e-mail me through this site (I think it's forbidden to put my e-mail address in this forum). I'm also on facebook - my name is as above and I live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Yes, I would love digital photos of any of the cemetery markers or other family history site. If you have any photos of any of Evelyn's siblings, Evangeline, or William, I would love those too (with scanners it is so easy to share photos). I'm more than happy to share whatever I have.

I personally don't believe that Evangeline & Louis Marfell ever married. I (and others) have searched in Canada and USA for a marriage record and found none. Evangeline started using the name Marfell on the voyage from England and I personally believe they simply presented themselves as husband and wife and were probably taken at their word. Evelyn also used the name Marfell at least some of the time, but as a child, she no doubt did as she was told to do.

Thanks again and looking forward to future correspondence!