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1881 - 1961 (79 years)
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Name |
Elbert Lee Myers [1] |
Born |
17 Dec 1881 |
Gender |
Male |
Alternate Name |
Elbert Lee /MYERS/ |
Birth |
17 Dec 1881 |
Nelson, Butte Co., CA. |
Occupation |
Engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad. |
Buried |
1961 |
Paradise Cemetery; 980 Elliott Road, Paradise, Butte Co., CA. |
Died |
25 Oct 1961 |
Paradise, Butte Co, CA. |
Person ID |
I2695 |
Bishir Family |
Last Modified |
11 Apr 2011 |
Father |
John Franklin Myers, b. 1 Mar 1862, Silveyville, Solano Co., California , d. 7 Sep 1924, Butte Co., California (Age 62 years) |
Mother |
Ada Lee, b. 17 Nov 1864, Sacramento, California , d. 12 Sep 1940, Stockton, California (Age 75 years) |
Married |
21 Mar 1881 |
Butte Co., California [2] |
Divorced |
unknown |
Alternate Marriage Date |
21 Mar 1881 |
Butte Co, CA [3] |
Notes |
- Obtained license on 17 Mar 1881 in Butte Co., CA. Married at the home of John's sister, Annie Spurgeon.
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Family ID |
F322 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Ruby Davis Smith, b. 26 Mar 1888, Wellsfleet, Lincoln Co., NE. , d. 13 Apr 1971, Chico, Butte Co, CA. (Age 83 years) |
Married |
13 Sep 1913 |
Oroville, Butte Co, CA |
Notes |
- Their marriage license was issued on the 15th of September, 1913.
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Children |
+ | 1. Elberta Lorene Myers, b. 18 Nov 1914, Chico, Butte Co., CA , d. 4 Feb 2004, Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte Co., CA (Age 89 years) |
+ | 2. Russell Donald “Don” Myers, b. 31 May 1916, Chico, Butte Co, CA , d. 8 Sep 1981, Mid Valley Hospital, Omak, Okanogan Co, WA (Age 65 years) |
+ | 3. John Amos Myers, b. 2 Jan 1919, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA , d. 25 Nov 1993, Paradise, Butte Co., CA (Age 74 years) |
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Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
Family ID |
F1 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- Enterprise-Record 27 October 1961
Elbert Myers Dies Suddenly
Elbert Lee Myers, 79, died at his home at 893 West Billie Road unexpectedly Wednesday.
Her was born December 17, 1881, near Biggs. He started school in Paradise. His family was renting the old Newland ranch here and his sister was born on the ranch. The family lived here for six years at that time.
Myers first started work for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Sacramento. He later returned to this area and worked on the run from Chico to Stirling City.
He had lived in Paradise and Stirling City for the past 45 years, retiring following a heart attach in 1949.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive, Fireman, and Engineman of Sacramento.
Survivors are his wife, Ruby, of Paradise; two sons, John of Auburn and Russell of Sacramento; a daughter, Lorene Wahl of Chico; two sisters, Anna Clark of Chico and Dixie Caldwell of Stockton; a brother, Edmund Myers of Dunsmuir, and nine grandchildren.
The Rev. Ione Swan of the Church of Religious Science will officiate at services tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of the Pines. Interment Monday will be in the Paradise cemetery.
RESEARCH:
Vital Record-Marriage License # 6037 - 15 Sep 1913 (copy in poss of Jennie Wright)
Newspaper Misc: (Elbert, Ruby & family lived in Stirling City, CA in Nov. 1929 according to an article in the "Chico Record" on Nov. 14, 1929). " Mr. & Mrs. Elbert Myers went to Sacramento Tuesday."
Soc Sec # 556-03-4277 per state death index on microfiche at SCGS lib
Census
1920-Chico, Butte Co., CA (apparently 3 families in one house John F. Myers and his 2 grown married children))
Myers, John F. Head of household/ 58 yrs old/ Widowed (this is not right, unless he remarried after he & Ada divorced)
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Farmer, Lottie Daughter 31 Widowed
Leta Granddaughter 12
Lloyd Grandson 7
Myers, Elbert Head of household 38 married (my grandfather)
Ruby 31 (my grandmother)
Lorene 5
Donald 3 (my father)
John 1
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Cemetery Record
Note: Was Russell in Sacramento at this time. Who is grandchild number 9. There should have been only 8!!! Did Russell, my father who deserted his family, have another family????
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