X00315 Solved!!

Back some time ago I posted about X00315 where I mentioned that in the marriage record for Amy Seymore Williams and William Gaskill in Globe, Gilla, Arizona in gives the witnesses as a B. Eastman and an S.C. Eastman. It also mentions that the ceremony was performed by an F.S. Eastman. The question was whether they could all be from the family of Amy's sister-in-law, Maude Alfreda Eastman. And if so, what were they all doing in Arizona?

Since then, I have done some newspaper searching and have made some discoveries that indicate that the witnesses and reverend are in fact the same Eastman family.

I found the article below from May of 1902 indicating that the Eastmans in Arizona were originally from Canada and were returning there shortly [D07138]:

From around the same time, I found Reverend F.S. Eastman's farewell letter [D07134]:

Through some other articles I found that he had been assigned to the church in Globe, Arizona by the bishop in August of 1899, which agrees with his statement that he had been there for a year and a half. I also came across an article from 1900 mentioning that he had married a woman from Quebec [D07132]:

I found the marriage in the Drouin collection, and it is indeed the same Frederick Soloman Eastman in the marriage record.

So, I've confirmed not only that the Eastmans in Arizona are the same in-laws of Amy S. Williams, but I've also been able to figure the times at which they were in Arizona (roughly August 1899 to May 1902). As well, it gives a likely explanation as to why Amy S. Williams would have also been in Arizona at the same time.

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Sources:
[D07132] "Local News," Arizona Silver Belt, 16 August 1900, p. 6, col. 1; digital images, newspapers.com.

[D07138] "Local News," Arizona Silver Belt, 8 May 1902, p. 5, col. 1; digital images, newspapers.com.

[D07134] F.S. Eastman, "Farewell of F.S. Eastman,"Arizona Silver Belt, 1 May 1902, p. 5, col. 3; digital images, newspapers.com.