52 Ancestors, 52 Weeks Week 13

Della Mae Long

I did a blog on Monday about the Carmer/Kermer line of my son-in-law. I think I will continue this instead of use the prompt.

I wrote that I knew very little about Della Mae Long. I did a little research to see what I could find about her in a gemealogical way. She was born in Jennings County, Indiana on May 18, 1894 to James William Long and Rebecca Partlow. This date was found on her death certificate and in the later census. Her first marriage listed her as having been born on May 18, 1892. It made her 16 when she got married. But I believe she was only 14. Her mother gave the information in her first marriage to George Harrison Canfield, and signed for her to marry. George was born in Jennings County on September 1, 1887.  The marriage took place on August 22, 1908 in Jennings County. George was the son of John Albert Newton Canfield and Nancy Sutton.

The first census that Della appears in is the 1900, Jennings County, Indiana. She is with her parents, James and Rebecca Long, her sisters; Ella, age 3 and Mattie, age 3 months. Della is listed as age 6, which would put her birth date at 1894.

In the 1910 census, Bigger Township, Jennings County, Indiana, Della is with George H. Canfield. He is 22 and she 18. He is listed as farm labor. One son, John H. is listed as 9 months.

George Harrison Canfield died on November 30, 1918.

In 1920, in North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, Della is 26 (birth 1894), and a widow. In the household is Della, John H., age 10, Albert, age 8, Emerson, age 5, Clyde, age 3, Leo, aged 11 months and Rebecca Long, her mother is 66 and widowed.

On August 25, 1922 Della married Clyde Carmer. He was born on August 21, 1876 in Bartholomew County, Indiana. His parents are James C. Carmer and Lavina Harris.

In 1930, Della and Charles Clyde Carmer are in Jennings County. Clyde is 54 and listed as farm labor. Della is 35. John Canfield, age 20, Emerson Canfield age 16, Leo W.  Canfield is 11, Elmer R. Carmer is 7, Margaret Carmer is 3 and William Carmer is 3 months old. Both John and Emerson are working outside the house.

On December 7, 1935, Charles Clyde Carmer died.

In the 1940 Jennings County, Indiana census, Della Carmer is 45 and widowed. In the household is Elmer R. Carmer, age 18 and employed as labor at a junk yard; Margaret J. Carmer is 13, she is my son-in-laws grandmother. There is also William, age 10, Arthur age 7, James age 4, Albert Canfield, age 28 and listed as divorced. He is employed as farm labor. And Clyde E. Canfield, age 24 and employed as labor at the WPA.

Della Carmer died at age 93, at 12:07 p.m. on June 16, 1987 in the Jennings Community Hospital in North Vernon, Indiana. Her son William was the informant. She was buried in Baldwin Cemetery in Vernon, Indiana.  Her obituary is in The Republic, a Columbus, Indiana newspaper, on June 17, 1987 on page 12.

Other Information:
John Harrison Canfield July 3, 1909 - June 5, 1993
Leo Wesley Canfield January 12, 1919 - July 11, 1974
Elmer Russell Carmer January 1, 1923 - September 14, 1991
Arthur Charles Carmer February 19, 1933 - February 28, 1999
William Franklin Carmer December 29, 1929 - September 17, 1997
Margaret Jeanette (Carmer) Bannister March 15, 1927 - April 2, 1994

Now to enter her information and try to flesh her out later. I still have so much to do on this family.

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