Chester Horace Elmer (1891 - 1988)

Ancestors

Husband of Hazel (Clark) Elmer — married 14 Jun 1911 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA

Descendants

Died 23 Mar 1988 at age 96 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Sources

• 1901 Canada Census Record, St George Ward, lists

1. Frank HAMON, age 40, French, occupation embalmer; widower (Wealthy Myrtle Tupper died 20 May 1901), 2. Herbert (18 years), son, English, occupation button maker; 3. James (16 years), son, English, occupation office boy; 4. Horace (7 years), son, birthplace USA, 5. Eliza Tupper, age 78, is listed at a lodger (Eliza is Horace's great-grandmother and Dora's grandmother) 6. Other lodgers listed are Edith Barker, Anthony Taylor and Sarah Taylor.

Dora Tupper Vedder (Horace's mother) was living with her sister (Harriet Emma Tupper Lindsay) and brother-in-law (Gavin LINDSEY) during this census. Why?

1911 Census of Canada, Ontario, Toronto Centre, District #124, Sub-District Ward Two, Sub-District #2, lists: • Chester Elmer as a lodger, single, age 19, • birth date as May 1892, • birth place as Ontario. • Other lodgers listed.

1915 - 1919 Canadian Military Service 1919 Military record states that Chester Elmer's resided with Hazel Elmer at 34 Applegrove, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.

Chester died in St. Peters Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and is buried in Mt. Osborne Cemetery in Lincoln, (formally Beamsville), Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. Death information taken from memorial service leaflet.