Evelyn Creighton was born 3 November 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. She is the daughter of Thomas Creighton and Ida Harper.
1930 census -- Bay Point, Contra Costa Co., California, USA
Ida Creighton, head, rent $22, female, white, age 37, married, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother bonr Ohio; Evelyn Creighton, daughter, female, white, age 8, single, attended school, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Richard Creighton, son, male, white, age 6, single, attended school, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; John Creighton, son, male, white, age 14, single, attended school, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Charles Peterson, son-in-law, male, white, age 26, married, first married @25, born West Virginia, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, laborer steel mill; Erma L Peterson, daughter, female, white, age 19, married, first married @18, born Ohio, father born Ohio; mother born Ohio; Eileen Peterson, daughter, female, white, age 4/12, single, born California, father born West Virginia, mother born Ohio.[1]
1940 census -- Inglewood, Los Angeles Co., California, USA
Thomas C Creighton, head, rent $17, male, white, age 62, married, 6th grade education, born Ohio, same place 1935, watchman oil derrick factory; Ida M Creighton, wife, informant, female, white, age 47, married, 1 year high school education, born Ohio, same place 1935; Evelyn D Creighton, daughter, female, white, age 18, single, 1 year high school eduation, born Ohio, same place 1935; Richard C Creighton, son, male, white, age 16, single, attended school, 2 years high school education, born Ohio, same place 1935[2]
She married Ivan Coleman sometime after 1940 (source needed).
She died 27 January 2005.[3]She is buried in Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.[4]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCXR-ZXN : accessed 7 August 2015), Evelyn Creighton in household of Ida Creighton, Township 16, Contra Costa, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0056, sheet 11A, family 107, line 12, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 114; FHL microfilm 2,339,849.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K97Y-VK8 : accessed 7 August 2015), Evelyn D Creighton in household of Thomas C Creighton, Inglewood Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-352, sheet 4A, family 86, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 236.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTG7-453 : accessed 7 August 2015), Evelyn D Coleman, 27 Jan 2005; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2D-ZDWN : accessed 7 August 2015), Evelyn Coleman, 2005; Burial, Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Green Hills Memorial Park; citing record ID 71297772, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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