Ralph Harrison Summers, 18881972 (aged 83 years)

Name
Ralph Harrison /Summers/
Birth
Birth of a brother
Birth of a brother
Marriage of a parent
Census
1900 (aged 11 years)
Death of a brother
Death of a father
Death of a brother
Death of a mother
Death
May 21, 1972 (aged 83 years)
Family with parents
father
18601943
Birth: about 1860Illinois
Death: June 27, 1943Chillicothe, Peoria, Illinois
mother
Marriage Marriagebefore 1884
9 months
elder sister
1884
Birth: September 1884 24 18 Kansas
Death:
4 years
himself
18881972
Birth: July 19, 1888 28 22 Montgomery, Kansas
Death: May 21, 1972
2 years
younger brother
18901936
Birth: September 20, 1890 30 24 Kansas
Death: February 28, 1936Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri
2 years
younger brother
18931970
Birth: January 19, 1893 33 27 Kansas
Death: May 27, 1970Fresno, California
Father’s family with Lizzie (Elizabeth) McCaslin
father
18601943
Birth: about 1860Illinois
Death: June 27, 1943Chillicothe, Peoria, Illinois
stepmother
18671932
Birth: November 10, 1867 44 36 Indiana
Death: November 6, 1932Chillicothe, Peoria, Illinois
Marriage Marriageabout 1897
Birth
Death
Shared note

In the 1900 US Federal Census for Bruce, LaSalle, Illinois, 39-year-old Illinois-born James M Summers and his 30-year-old Indiana-born wife Lizzie [McCaslin Welch] Summers have been married three years. Lizzie has borne two children by her previous marriage to John Welch, and these two Kansas-born children are living with them, 9-year-old Guy and 7-year-old Floyd Welsh. The census taker has recorded their last name as Summers. Also in this household are James' Kansas-born children by his first wife, Clara E Mott, 15-year-old Eola, 11-year-old Ralph, 9-year-old Elbert and 7-year-old Clarence. The family is living in a rented house. All the children have attended school for nine months in the past year. James is a Railroad conductor who has had no months without work. The adults are literate and speak English. James' parents were born in Illinois; Lizzie's father was born in Indiana and her mother in Pennsylvania; Guy and Floyd's father was born in Ohio and their mother in Indiana; Eola, Ralph, Elbert and Clarence's father was born in Illinois and their mother in Indiana.