- Elie Jack Mercer
- Cousin
- Elie Jack Mercer first appears on the US Census in 1900 in Richmond
County, Georgia
- He and his first wife Velma Greenway appears on the 1920 US Census
and they are
- living with Richard Coleman Welch who was Elie's Uncle,
Martha's brother.
- Velma died in 1922 at the age of 17 and is buried in the NoonDay
Cemetery in
- Emanuel County, Georgia He is the son of the elusive John A. and Martha Welch
- Mercer, he is
the third of four sons and was born in 1896 in Summerton, Georgia in
- Emanuel County
according to JoAnn, Linda and Lisa who are closer relatives than I am.
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According to written documentation Elie died Nov 23 1947 from a
cerebral concussion in the Tehachapi Valley Hospital in Kern County,
California as the result of a car/train collision
- and was buried on 26 Nov 1947 in the Mojave Cemetery in Mojave,
California.
- Information was obtained from Kern County, California death
certificate # 6319470094.
- Elie appears to have moved to California in or about 1931 since his
death certificate says
- he had been in California for 16 years and worked as a farm laborer
on fruit farms. He is said to have served in the military during World War
1. This information was rendered by his second wife and death certificate
informant Margaret Elizabeth Mercer.
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