Ira B Elmer

Brief Life History of Ira B

When Ira B Elmer was born on 21 May 1881, in Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States, his father, Ira Bartlett Elmer, was 22 and his mother, Octavia Hatch, was 19. He married Vera Robertson on 10 October 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1910 and Election District 19 Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1920. He died on 8 December 1928, in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Lovell Cemetery, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ira B Elmer
1881–1928
Vera Robertson
1889–1955
Marriage: 10 October 1907
Sylvia Elmer
1908–1993
Horace Elmer
1910–1910
Ira Mark Elmer
1912–1912
Donald Hatch Elmer
1913–1965
John Percy Elmer
1916–1971
Lois Evelyn Elmer
1923–1997
Betty Lou Elmer
1926–2002

Sources (31)

  • Ira B. Elmer, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Ira Elmer, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Ira Elmer, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1884

EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL SITE: James Jolley BIRTH 1884 DEATH 1884 (aged less–than 1 year) BURIAL Lovell Cemetery Lovell, Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA PLOT Sec. 2, Plot I:18 MEMORIAL ID 15417002

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Elmore .

English: habitational name from Elmer in Middleton (Sussex), probably named with Old English ǣl ‘eel’ + mere ‘pool’.

German: topographic name for someone living near elm trees, from Middle High German elm ‘elm tree’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Vera Robertson Elmer Thomas

By her daughter Sylvia Olson On August 29, 1889, Vera was born to John W. Robertson and Lucy Hannah Snell at Spanish Fork, Utah. She was the ninth child in a family of fi …

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