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Surnames: ISLEY, Eastes, Beckley, Fable, Jacobs, McConnell,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: ISLEY, Eastes, Beckley, Fable, Jacobs, McConnell,
MRS. ANNA BECKLEY ISLEY, the popular librarian of the Boonville Public Library, at the
judicial center of Warrick County, is loyal and enthusiastic in her able administration
and has done much to advance all departments of the communal service of the excellent
library over which she is placed in charge. Mrs. Isley, the widow of Charles Isley, was
born in Shelby County, Kentucky, and is a daughter of the late James H. and Lucy Ann
(Eastes) Beckley, who passed their entire lives in Kentucky, where the father was a farmer
by vocation. Mrs. Isley is the younger of the two children of the family, and her brother,
Frank Beckley, who was a railroad train dispatcher at Springfield, Ohio, married Miss
Margaret Fable, of North Vernon, Indiana, who preceded him in death. Their two children
are Ralph and Earl. The death of Frank Beckley occurred in California in 1920. Mrs. Isley
was graduated in the high school at North Vernon, Indiana, and remained at the parental
home until May 13, !
1886, when she became the wife of Charles Isley, who was foreman for a lumber company at
Boonville, Indiana, at the time of his death, and who’ left his widow to care for and
educate their three young children. Bravely and loyally did Mrs. Isley face the
responsibilities that thus devolved upon her, and though she had no financial resources,
even to the extent of insurance on the life of her husband, she struggled and persevered,
met problems and emergencies as they came, and succeeded in giving her children good
educational advantages, both of her sons having been graduated in Purdue University.
Gladys R., the only daughter, remains with her widowed mother at Boonville. Paul T., the
elder son, is manager of a carbon factory in Cleveland, Ohio, and is an electrical
engineer by profession. He married Miss Florence Jacobs, of Cleveland, and they have three
children: Celianna Paul T., Jr., and Robert. George F., the younger son, is a civil
engineer by profession, reside!
s at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is there retained as a civil engineer with the Shell Oil
Company. He married Miss Robbie McConnell, of Cynthiana, Indiana, and they have two
winsome little daughters, Joan Beckley and Joyce. Mrs. Anna B. Isley gives her political
allegiance to the Democratic Party and is an active member of the First Baptist Church of
Boonville. She is a gracious and popular figure in the social and cultural life of her
home city, where she has won a host of friends.