My Trails into the Past

My 2x-granduncle, Reginold Lancaster, married Eda Pearl Ralston on 30 July 1920 in Los Angeles when he was thirty-two years old. She was thirty-five. [1] This was her second marriage, having been divorced from Eugene De Lartigue. Eda Pearl Ralston was born in December 1880 in Wyoming to Ellis Ralston and Flora Sackett. In 1880, her parents were living in Cheyenne, Laramie County, so it is possible that this was where she was born. Her father was a railroad engineer. [2] By 1900, her mother was a widow living in Los Angeles County, California, with three children: Eda, aged 19, Ruby F., aged 17, and Earl E., aged 15. [3] Actress Sometime before 1902, Eda began working as an actress while living with her mother and brother at 3680 South Grand Avenue. [4] In the earliest news found in October 1901, she was a whistling, song and dance soubrette at the Unique Theater on South Spring Street in Los Angeles. [5] Variety was a weekly newspaper that covered actors and actresses. Eda R...