Eldridge Ellsworth Shimer
(1864-After 1910)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Julia Ann Barr

Eldridge Ellsworth Shimer 1

  • Born: July 1864, Calhoun County, WV 1
  • Marriage (1): Julia Ann Barr about 1909 1
  • Died: After 15 April 1910
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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Murphy District, Ritchie, WV on 2 May 1910. 1

1910 US Census
Sheet 13A, Roll 1693, District 74, Family 184
Murphy District, Ritchie County, West Virginia
home owned, with mortgage
married 1 year
Ellsworth E. Shimer..Head..45..WV..Retail Merchant
(Living with second wife, 4 children from his 1st wife, and step-children.)
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Eldridge married Julia Ann Barr, daughter of Alfred Barr and Cynthia Ann Smith, about 1909.1 (Julia Ann Barr was born on 11 May 1870 in , Ritchie County, WV 1 2 3 4 and died on 14 July 1965 2 3.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1910 US Census in Murphy District, Ritchie, WV on 2 May 1910. 1

1910 US Census
Sheet 13A, Roll 1693, District 74, Family 184
Murphy District, Ritchie County, West Virginia
home owned, with mortgage
married 1 year
Ellsworth E. Shimer..Head..45..WV..1 yr..Retail Merchant
Julia A. Shimer..Wife..39..WV..2/2
William A. Shimer..Son..15..WV
Frances R. Shimer..Dau..13..WV
George L. Shimer..Son..9..WV
Dosia D. Shimer..Dau..7..WV
Starling L. Sinnett..SSon..16..WV
Barr Sinnett..SSon..13..WV

NOTE - Julia Ann Barr remarried to Eldrige Shimer about 1909. This census shows all of Eldridge Shimer's children born from his first wife, Celestine Elliott. It also shows two of Julia's children born from her first marriage to John Harmon Minor Sinnett.
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Sources

1 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Murphy District, Ritchie County, West Virginia, enumeration district (ED) 74, sheet 13A, family 184, Eldridge Ellsworth Shimer and Julia Ann Barr; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 4 Aug 2015); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624, roll 1693.

2 D. K. Bartram, Jr., World Family Tree Vol. 002, Ed. 1, Tree #0263 (Brøderbund Software, Inc., Release date: November 29, 1995).

3 Polli Kreaps, "Walker Kreaps APRIL 2008" (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pollee_tribe; Updated: 2008-04-10 04:15:54 UTC (Thu)).

4 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Murphy Township, Ritchie County, West Virginia, enumeration district (ED) 147, p. 323B, dwelling 430, family 437, Alfred Barr and Cynthia Ann Smith; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 22 Jan 2015); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1413.

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