Elder, John

Birth Name Elder, John
Gender male
Age at Death 62 years

Notes

Note

John Elder married at least 3 times.

He was a boiler-maker in Cambridge, Mass when he married Elizabeth Hall, a waitress from Philadelphia in 1892. Lizzie Elder was not living with her husband John in 1900.

He said he was divorced when he married Octavia Dolloff on 3 July 1908 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Octavia has an interesting biography on her find a grave memorial, Memorial ID 179117680. She died in February 1919.

John Elder, labourer age 51 married Charlotte (Pero) Smith in Nashua, New Hampshire on 18 Dec 1919. It was his third marriage, and he had been widowed and divorced.

In 1920, John and Charlotte were living in Massachusetts. Charlotte claimed to be a widow on the US 1930 census. She was living in New Hampshire, where she died in 1942.

He was not the John Elder who died in a car accident in New Hampshire in 1929. His name is on the gravestone for his wife Octavia, dates 1867-1930, in New Hampshire.

 

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth January 1868 Prince Edward Island, Canada January 1870 in the US 1900 census  
Death 1930      

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Elder, Alexanderabout 1844March 26, 1888
Mother McArthur, Julia Annabout 1840January 6, 1933
    Sister     Elder, Ada E. 1866 October 11, 1918
         Elder, John January 1868 1930
    Sister     Elder, Annie E. December 1871 1954
    Brother     Elder, William Edgar December 18, 1873 January 22, 1946
    Brother     Elder, Daniel Gordon July 12, 1875 April 15, 1935
    Brother     Elder, Alexander Harold October 8, 1883 April 26, 1957

Families

Family of Elder, John and Hall, Elizabeth

Married Wife Hall, Elizabeth ( * + ... )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage July 22, 1892 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States