Photo by Zen Page 10 Table of Contents Previous Page Next Page Index After Isabell passed away, the family decided to leave Ft. Collins and move back to the Spaulding Nursery in Illinois. Father tried to sell his sixty acres on “Main Street.” . . . He had difficulty in finding a buyer, so a friend suggested he subdivide his property and sell residential lots. Success! Later, in Sprinfield, he bought sixteen old estates, subdivided them, and made a good profit. [Later in his life, in California, he did this on a much larger scale.] [continued family history] 6. Easton Ewing’s birth was in Springfield at the Nursery     Place on February 18, 1902. 7. Eleanor Fay [Faye] was born on April 11, 1904 . . .     (David Whitcomb’s mother) Albert and Nellie brought their family west to Long Beach, California in 1908. Nellie passed away in childbirth (a son) in September that same year. . . .  in 1909, Albert moved his family from Long Beach to Huntington Beach, where Mrs. Evans and an Indian woman cared for the children.