Person:Elizabeth Jones (190)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nranck/colt-p/p1343.htm#i39925 Elizabeth Jones lived at Bellingham, WA. She married ? Mercer. She was the daughter of Evan Jones and Phebe Parmer. [S24] Chambers, George Gailey, Family Group sheets and Correspondence, copies in my files; hereafter referred to as Chambers Manuscripts.

1856 Sept. 7, ELIZABETH N. JOSERS [JONES] md. HENRY MERCER, Shelby Co., IL, Book C, p.125 Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love from Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE, July 17, 1877: "we werewe were living in Mongomery Co Ill when I was married"

1860 census

1870 Philadelphia Co., PA, census, p.559A, P.O. Philadelphia, July 11, 1870, Thomas H. Forten: 578/647, HENRY MERCER, 40 M W, carpenter, $500 personal, PA; Elizabeth, 27 F W, keep house, IL; Lydia, 11 F W, at school, TX; Evan, 8 M W, TX; John, 6 M W, TX.

The Panic of 1873 began in Europe and reached the United States in the fall of 1873. <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h213.html>

[1873] Nov. 13, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from cousin Ella last week / they were all well, / she said the panic had not effected Henrys business very much for where they couldnt pay him the money he can get orders for coal or Groceries, / But there are a great many poor families that will suffer this winter in the large cities, / the shop where Ella an Lydia worked stopped two weeks but expected to resume last Monday."

no date [ca. 1876 between Sept. 18 and Dec. 10], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "hope Zillmans health is better. If he goes to the Centennial would be pleasant for him to see Ella and pay us a visit on his return"

1876 Dec. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I received letters from my mother and sister Lizzie every other week. They regretted very much, that our cousins were near, and then not know it. Some of them would have gone to the city to see them, had they known they were there."

1876 Dec. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I would have been so glad could you have been with Lillias and Zillman / we regretted so much that they could not remain longer with us."

1877 Feb. 6, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "we are living on a dairy farm and have sixty cows to milk / henry some times talks of going west but if he does he will go to texas but I dont know whether he will make a break or not"

1877 May 6, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "we are pretty busy just now geting our garden made and corn planted / the boys and I will have all that to do now as their pa is not working at home now / he has hired for a year to take charge of a butter factorey and three milk dayries of 60 cows each / the boys and me will have one dayry of 60 to milk / we are milking 37 now and it keeps us prety buisly / I expect a butter factory is something new to you / it was to me untill [w]e came to Delaware / you wanted to know how many children we have / we have three living and one dead / our two eldest were girls / the two next boys / Leydia and sarah was our girls and Evan and John is our boys names / Ledia is maried / Evan is in his fifteenth year will bee 15 in september / John was 13 in febuary / they are fine big boys / Leydia is the eldest of all / she will bee 20 in august . . . you wanted to know if your uncle or I belonged to anny church / I am glad to say that I am a babtist and henry does not belong to anny but we are not [n]ear a babtist church / we attend the Methodist church in delaware city and that is two miles a way"

1877 July 17, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "henry is pety well now / the Dr think he has nearly cured him of heart disease . . . we are milking fifty seven cows and it takes your uncle the two boys Ella and me to milk them and it keps ma buisy doing the chores a bout the house for she is cripled in both hands so that she cant milk atall"

1878 Dec. 8, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Zillman Jones: "Aunt Phebe is with us / came the first day of November / is going to remain all winter." and to her cousin Jane Love: "Your Grandma is with us this winter. She says cousins Lizzie and Ella have both written to you and were wondering why you did not write and the last letter I recived from Ella she asked me when I had heard from you."

1880 March 9, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousins Jane Love, Lillice Jones, and Zillman Jones: "I would have written sooner but I was waiting for a letter from Ella. . . . Lizzie Mercer still lives in Delaware, P.O. address Delaware City"

1880 New Castle Co., DE, census, p.288A, Red Lion Hundred, June 1, 1880, D.B. Henry: 4/4, HENRY MERCER, W M 50, head of family, carpenter, good health, PA PA PA; Lizzie, W F 46 [should read 36], wife, TX TX KY; H. Ivins [Evan], W M 19, son, labourer, TX PA KY; J. John, W M 16, son, labourer, TX PA KY.

ca. 1883 May 14, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Had a letter from Luella a few days ago. She and auntie have broken up housekeeping for a while and auntie is thinking of coming to Ohio and Kentucky to spend the summer / thinks her health will be better. Lizzie Mercer is still living in Philadelphia / aunt Phebe intended going there the first of this month / we will be glad to have her come."

1883 June 9. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella / Auntie is in Philadelphia / intends going to Kentucky the middle of this month and Ella expects to meet her here on her return trip."

1883 Oct. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Lizzie Mercers health is very poor."

1884 Jan. 18, New York City. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "Ma left New York the first of May [1883] and has been visiting ever since. Went to Phil. first, then to Ohio, from there to Indiana, from there to Kentucky, and is now back to Phil. with sister Lizzie. / I went on Saturday before Christmas, stayed with them a week. Enjoyed the visit very much, but the weather being so very severe, kept me in a great deal more than was agreeable. There were so many I wished to see while there."

1884 Aug. 31, New York City, 79 E. 10th St. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "Ma is away again this Summer. We did not commence housekeeping again. She stayed with Sister Lizzie in Philada. all Winter, and has been visiting a sister of hers in Iowa, since May. . . . I have not been to see my sister since christmas."

1889 Jan. 9, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Have you heard from aunt Phebe and Ella lately / they have broken up housekeeping / Ella has gone back to New York and aunt Phebe lives with Lizzie Mercer this winter"

1889 April 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I hear frequently from Lizzie Mercer and Luella. Aunt Phebe has been with Lizzie all winter and is going to remain with her this summer / Luella is still in New York. Her address is No 46 east 10th st New York / Lizzie Mercers 1444 North 27th st Philadelphia / they were all well the last I heard from them"

1889 July 15, Philadelphia, PA. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You will no doubt be surprised to receive a letter written by me from here / I came to see if there was any chance of my regaining my health and I feel better since I came / I dont know how long I will stay as the Dr told me if I was getting better to remain as long as I could and Henry and Lizzie are so kind / Aunt Phebe is here / has been since last October. I have not seen Ella yet as she has been so busy she couldnt come / she expected to come next saturday / I will be so glad as I am anxious to see her. / Lizzie has a very comfortable house / (?)6 rooms and a summer kitchen and not right on a thickly settled street. There is an electric light just on Diamond street that lights her stairs so nicely that she dont have to place a lamp there. Across from Diamond is the New York and Reading RR so that we are never out of the sound of the cars. Diamond is the principle drive for this part of town / has asphalt paving / makes it lovely driving and walking too. When we want to go down town we can take either steam or street cars. This is a beautiful city and I like it as well as I do Cincinnati / It has been very warm since I came but it is so shady here that we dont feel the heat. yesterday we went to church in the morning but is was very warm and when we came back we seemed to have gotten in another climate it was so much cooler. . . . Lizzie daughter Lydia lives about four squares away across the RR. / her sons are both at home. Evan works with his father at the carpenter trade / Henry is foreman, / John is in the lumber yard, / Lydia husband works there too and he also has a store / Lydia attends to it. Lydia has two children living, both boys [Harry and ?], three dead, all girls. . . . Write soon to me as I am very anxious to hear from you / Direct to 26th and Diamond / Philadelphia Pennsylvania / Care Mrs Henry Mercer."

1889 Sept. 11, New York City. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I am now in New York City with Ella and aunt Phebe . . . Aunt Phebe thinks she will go back with me to Lizzies"

1889 Dec. 11, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Here I am back in Ohio once more. Did cousin Lizzie Mercer write to you after auntie and I started to Ohio, / She said she would, / Auntie came with me as far as Cincinnati and then she went on to her brothers at Crawfordsville Indiania, / She got back to Philadelphia thanksgiving day / I dont know whether she kept well or not. Lizzie didnt write. I dont know what Lizzies no will be as they were going to move in their new house Monday. . . I enjoyed myself very well indeed. I would love to go there every summer but it costs so much to go and come"

1890 Jan. 2, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter a monday from cousin Lizzie Mercer. . . . Aunt Phebe is at Lizzies, / Her address is 2641 North 27th st / Philadelphia Penn"

1890 Aug. 7, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have not had a letter from cousin Lizzie for some time / the last I heard her youngest son John was married, / he is 26 yrs old."

1891 Jan. 28, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Henry and Lizzie are in Vineland N.J."

1892 Nov. 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have been waiting so long for Lizzie Mercers address so as to send it to you for Jane they have gone so very far away that I never expect to see them again. The 12th of September Henry, Lizzie, aunt Phebe, Evan, John, and Johns little girl left Philadelphia for a ranch on Can[y]on Creek Wyoming. Lydia remained in Philadelphia and Luella in New York / Luella is almost heartbroken over their going. John and Evan being widowers could go. Evan hadnt any children / John had two / his wifes mother I beleive kept the youngest while Lizzie took the oldest, / They are 85 miles from a R.R. / 19 from the post office and six from their nearest neighbor and no church or school anywhere near them / wouldnt you fancy such a place, dear oh dear. I dont fancy any of it. Write to Lizzie / she is so glad to get a letter / Her address is. Mrs Henry Mercer, Vermillion, Sweet Water. Co. Wyoming. . . . Write soon and write to Lizzie. Luellas address is 36 E. 12th st. New York. N.Y."

1893 Feb. 5, Canyon Creek Ranch, Vermillion P.O., Sweetwater Co., WY. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "we think some of setling in Colorado / What we have seen of that state we like mutch better than this as it is a better farming country than this is / this is said to bee a verry healty country & after we get aclimated I think we will bee all right"

1893 Feb. 20, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Lizzie Mercer a short time ago / she said they had had colds ever since they had moved. . . . I wrote a letter to Lizzie Mercer to day and thought I would get it in the other mail. (We have four aday) but callers came and I couldnt finish it"

1893 May 7, Vermillion P.O., Sweetwater Co., WY. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love [Jane died March 18th]: "Ma is looking right Well & seems well / she is quite smart for a woman of her age / she is on the go nearly all the day at some thing"

1893 May 17, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love [Jane died March 18th]: "I suppose you have recieved a letter from your aunt Lizzie Mercer this week / I received one from her yesterday and she said she was going to write to you the same day."

1894 Feb. 15, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Lillice Jones Harper: "Your welcome letter was received yesterday evening. I had written in December after Henry Mercers death. He died the 2nd of December [note cemetery record below] / they had gone from the ranch to Rock Springs to be near a physician and some one as they knew he couldnt live, / they had just been there 4 weeks when he died. I dont know what they will do / Lydia wants them to go back to Philadelphia. Ella had prospect of getting in as a clerk in the P.O at Rock Springs and Lizzie was keeping lodgers, / it is a town of 6000 or 7000 inhabitants and Evan had work too, so I dont know what they will do. John is with Lydia in Philadelphia, / Times are so hard a person hardly know which way to turn."

1897 Dec. 23, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Lillice Jones Harper: "I had a letter from Cousin Ella last week. Aunt Phebe / Lizzie Mercer and Evan are in Whatcom, Washington, Luella and John and his family are still in Rock Spring. Wyoming." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

Rock Springs Cemetery, 802 Thompson St., Rock Springs, WY 82901, phone 307-352-1462 http://www.rootsweb.com/~wysweetw/swceme.htm Henry Mercer, ID #4763, male, buried Nov. 25, 1893, Cemetery #103, Block 161, Lot 3, Grave 1, map code L

1900 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.255A, New Whatcom, E.D. 245, June 18, 1900, William H. Campbell: 845 Garden, 461/461, ELIZABETH MERCER [indexed as MERAR], head, W F, Feb. 1856 [should read 1846], 54, widow, mother of 3 children, 3 living, IL OH KY, carpet weaver, rents home; Evan, son, W M, Sept. 1864, 35, single, TX PA IL, day laborer; Phoebe, gr-dau, W F, Feb. 1891, 9, PA TX PA. 835 Garden, 462/462, JOHN MERCER [indexed as MERAR], head, W M, Feb. 1866, 34, md. 10 yrs., TX PA IL, day laborer, rents home; Lizzie, wife, W F, Apr. 1873, 27, mother of 3 children, 2 living, PA Ireland Ireland; Annie M., dau., W F, Mar. 1892, 8, PA TX PA, in school.

1910 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.171A, Meridian Precinct, May 2, 1910, D.W. Letterhoff: 113/113, Elmer J. WOOLFOLK, head, M W 24, md. 4 yrs., MO IL MO, teamster, lumber mill; Phoebe, wife, F W 19, mother of 1 child, 1 living, WA PA PA; Addie E., dau, F W 2, WA MO WA; LIZZIE MERCER, grandmother, F W 65, widow, mother of 4 children, 2 living, IL OH KY; Evan Mercer, uncle, M W 38 [should read 48], widowed, PA PA IL, grader, lumber mill; Harry Mercer, bro-in-law, M W 9, WA PA PA.

I know very little about my Woolfolk ancestry. Would appreciate any help. My mother was adopted. Her birth family, according to the original adoption records, was mother, Phoebe Mercer and father, Elmer Woolfolk of Orofino, Id. Mother's name, given her at birth, was Elizabeth, b. 18 June 1908. Anybody know anything about Elmer? --Orofino, Id Woolfolks, posted by Joyce Hooker <joyhook@@peoplepc.com>, Sept. 11, 2001, message 297. http://genforum.genealogy.com/woolfolk/messages/297.html

1920 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.90B, Bellingham City, Jan. 3, 1920, Susie M. Meador: ELIZABETH MERCER, mother, F W 72, widow, IL OH KY; with 521 Kentucky St., 28/28, JOHN L. MERCER, head, owns mortgaged home, M W 54, widowed, TN PA IL, laborer, lumber mill; Elizabeth, dau, F W 15, WA TN KS; Albert PALMER, boarder, M W 52, divorced, KS IN KY, laborer, lumber mill. [Albert Palmer was probably a relative of Elizabeth's mother, Phebe Parmer.]

Bayview Cemetery, Whatcom Co., WA http://www.bayviewcemetery.com/index.htm Name ~ Property Description ~ Serv. # ~ Date HARMON, Hannah A. ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 1-A ~ 0001643 ~ 03/10/1901 HARMON, John ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 2-A ~ 0001646 ~ 12/03/1948 [age 85] MERCER, H. ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 3-A ~ 0001638 ~ 02/06/1923 MERCER, Elizabeth ~ not listed in this database ~ Lot 157 ~ Grave 4 KIMME, Lydia R. ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 5-A ~ 0001641 ~ 05/01/1908 MERCER, Evan H. ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 6-A ~ 0001642 ~ 08/09/1919 SHEPARD, George H. ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 7-A ~ 0001647 ~ 10/24/1947 [age 85] SHEPARD, Ella May ~ Section C, Lot 157, Grave 8-A ~ 0001648 ~ 02/02/1952 [age 87] . . Ella May is not Ella Westwood, dau. of Lydia Mercer; Ella May was b. in MN, her parents in MA and NH. http://www.bayviewcemetery.com/source/htm/records.htm (no Benham burials)

MERCER Elizabeth ~ buried 5-20-29 ~ Section [blank] ~ Lot 157 ~ Grave Hd 4 MERCER Evan H. ~ buried unknown ~ Section [blank] ~ Lot 157 ~ Grave 6 MERCER Harry ~ buried 2-14-23 ~ Section [blank] ~ Lot 157 ~ Grave 3 ftp://ftp.cob.org/parks/cemetery/Burials_M-Mil.pdf (page 44 of 51) ftp://ftp.cob.org/parks/cemetery/Burials_B-Birtch.pdf (no Benham burials)

1910 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.218A, Bellingham City (Ward 4), April 21, 1910, J.R. Wargill: 530 Boulevard, 163/198, FRED KIMME, head, M W 43, ? 0 yrs., Germany Germ Germ, longshoreman; Ella W. WESTWOOD, step-dau, F W 19 [sic], [??], PA KS TX, stenographer, lumberman.

1930 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.30A, Bellingham City, April 12, 1930, Mrs. J.M. Meador: 521 Kentucky, 160/172, JOHN MERCER, head, owns home valued $1500, M W 66, divorced, age 29 when first md., TX PA IL, hauling mail, U.S.; ELLA BENHAM, aunt, F W 77, widow, age 30 when first md., IL OH KY.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Cemetery records of Whatcom County, Washington, additions and corrections to series II (CD). (Bellingham, Washington: Whatcom Genealogical Society, c2019 version 1.5)
   ver. 1.4, p. 362.

   MERCER, Elizabeth JONES (sp Henry) b 21 Feb 1842 IL d 29 Apr 1929 int 20 May 1929