She was born in Fayette County[1]. She married Albert Schomer (1903–1977). They have a daughter Jane. She divorced Albert before 1940. She returned home with her daughter to her parents.
She remarried January 18, 1951 to William Knight (1909-1981) in Maryland.
Obituary.
She died in Uniontown Hospital on April 23, 1975[2] and is buried in the Dickerson Run-Union Cemetery, Dickerson Run, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA[3]
Census
1910 Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States[4]
1920 Vanderbilt, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States[5]
1930 Saltlick, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States[6]
1940 Vanderbilt Borough, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States[7]
Sources
↑ Pennsylvania (State). Birth certificates #D- 182448 -06, 1906–1908. Series 11.89 (50 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J2WZ-231 : accessed 30 April 2015), Esther Knight, Apr 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
↑ "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGHY-HGP : accessed 30 April 2015), Ester R Addis in household of Samuel Addis, Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20, sheet 12A, family 179, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,357.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6Y9-DJS : accessed 30 April 2015), Esther R Addis in household of Samuel Addis, Vanderbilt, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 8B, family 172, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,571.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH33-XQL : accessed 30 April 2015), Esther R Schomer in household of Albert J Schomer, Saltlick, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0083, sheet 2B, family 38, line 93, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2040; FHL microfilm 2,341,774.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQHP-6GB : accessed 30 April 2015), Esther Schomer in household of Jane Addis, Vanderbilt Borough, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-129, sheet 2B, family 39, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 3508.
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