"North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHJ4-3KT : accessed 6 April 2016), Elmer Franklin Mechum, 16 Sep 1914; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. 1, p. 452, Davie, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZKR-PZL : accessed 6 April 2016), Robert Mechum in household of Mary Mechum, Shady Grove, Davie, North Carolina, United States; citing sheet 8B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,294.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWSZ-XHZ : accessed 6 April 2016), Elmer Mechum in household of Mary Mechum, Shady Grove Township, Davie, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 30-13, sheet 14B, family 240, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2900.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elmer by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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