UPDATED: 12/14/2023
Please refer to the “Eastham Genealogy Information Project” link above.
Marvin Jasper Eastham was born May 8, 1904 in Harrison County, Arkansas), the eighth child of Milliner Charles and Annie Eastham. He married (M1) Grace Eden November 30, 1924. Grace was the sister of Juanita Christell Eden who married Marvin’s brother Charles Virgil Eastham, and the daughter of John Eden and Etta Coy. Grace was born November 30, 1905 in Heavener, Oklahoma. – 1/5/1980, Tahlequah, Oklahoma)
Marvin and Grace had 5 children:
i Mildred Leona (Eastham) Ryals
ii Marie Eastham Stepp
iii Wilma Eastham Craig
iv Bobby Eastham
v Joe Eastham
Grace passed away on January 5, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Marvin Jasper Eastham passed away on September 14, 2000 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Mildred Leona (Eastham) Ryals
Mildred Leona (Eastham) Ryals (Oct. 14, 1925-Oct. 23, 2019) was born in Wauhillau to Marvin and Grace Eastham. She was the oldest of five children and grew up in the Caney, Barber, and Welling communities. She married Charles Edward Ryals on May 15, 1946. They had seven children.
Charles (Charley) Edward Ryals was born in Los Angeles, CA on November 9, 1926 to Vera Esther (Breedon) and William Claude Ryals. Charley served as a Private in the U.S. Army during World War II. He passed in Tahlequah, OK on December 7, 1984. He is buried in Boudinot Cemetery in Cherokee County, OK.
Mildred and Charley Ryals had seven children:
Charles Wayne Ryals
Phillip Ray Ryals
Patricia Ann (Ryals) Presley
Kathy Ryals
Karen (Ryals) Burchett
Deborah (Ryals) Turney
Joyce (Ryals) Quinn (May 5, 1950-December 20, 2009)
Marie Eastham Stepp
Wilma Eastham Craig
Wilma Eastham Craig (Feb 14, 1934-Dec. 20, 1998) married Marion “Buck” Craig (Sept. 3, 1934- Dec. 20, 1998) of Tahlequah. Buck was a retired aircraft mechanic for American Airlines in Tulsa. They had three children:
Gail Craig Whitehead
James Lynn Craig
Janet Craig
Gail Craig Whitehead and her husband Gary are half owners of a barbeque restaurant in Skiatook, OK, that Gary manages. They live in Sand Springs, OK. Their son Gary Daniel Whitehead, is a senior diesel mechanic for DARR in Tulsa, OK.
James Lynn Craig has two daughters:
Courtney Lynn Craig
Chloe Ann Craig
Bob “Sonny” Eastham
Bob “Sonny” Eastham is retired from the fisheries division of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. He and his wife Cassie have four children:
Robin Eastham
Bobby Gerald Eastham
Jimmy Dale Eastham
Amy Eastham Shankle
Robin Eastham Truitt is a former Cherokee County employee in Tahlequah, OK. She is also a former employee of Tahlequah Abstract.
Bobby Gerald Eastham and his wife, Carol, have three children: Hunter, Kaley, and Fisher.
Hunter
Kaley
Fisher
Jimmy Dewayne Eastham and his wife, Nickie, have four children:
Layne
Luke
Libby
Landry
Amy Eastham Shankle and her husband Randall Shankle have four children:
Amanda Nichole Shankle (May 22, 1995-July 9, 2012)
Rhett Louis
Gracie Brooke Rose
Sophie
Joe Eastham
Joe E. Eastham (July 4, 1946) and his wife Kathy Doss Eastham (Aug. 15, 1950-June 2, 2004) have two sons:
Joe “Jody” Eastham
Jason Eastham.
Joe “Jody” Aaron Eastham and his wife Jessica have one son, Lucas “Luke.”
Jason Ryan Eastham is married to Amy Eastham.