UPDATED: 12/14/2023
Please refer to the “Eastham Genealogy Information Project” link above.
Milliner Charles Eastham was born March 12, 1862 in Pulaski County Kentucky. He was the fourth of nine children of Thomas Eastham and Martha Wilson. He had 3 sisters and 5 brothers. In 1883, he married Annie (Harrison) Eastham born July 3, 1868 in Illinois. They had nine children:
i Elmer12 (1/9/1885-1/28/1903)
ii Martha Leona12 (11/22/1887-8/19/1980)
iii Luther Thomas12 (12/23/1889-1/4/1979)
iv Ella May12 (1/21/1894-9/25/1983)
v Olive “Ollie” Beaulah12 (_/_/1896-_/_/1968)
vi Samuel Arthur12 (4/_/1900-9/29/1932)
vii ? Infant Girl Eastham (_/_/1903?)
viii Marvin Jasper12 (5/8/1904-9/14/2000)
ix Charles Virgil12 (5/11/1908-9/29/2004)
Annie (Harrison) Eastham died December 7, 1936 after developing a “rising” in her head, possibly a tumor or aneurysm at the old homeplace near present-day Tenkiller Lake.
The land was later owned by John and Geneva Hodge. There is a spring on the property, and Milliner Charles had sold a large portion of the farm to the state when Tenkiller Lake was built. Mary Lou (Eastham) Graham13 , and Elva Charlene (Eastham) Tucker13 were born in that house.
Milliner Charles Eastham died on March 7, 1937, a few months after Annie from a “broken heart.” He passed away near the stairs in the parlor of the Murrell Home (aka “Hunter’s Home”) near Park Hill, Oklahoma. The house was occupied by his daughter Ella May (Eastham) Manson, and her husband Asa Manson.