Person:Evan Mercer (2)

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 . . . Evan works with his father at the carpenter trade / Henry [his father] is foreman"

1892 Nov. 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "The 12th of September Henry, Lizzie, aunt Phebe, Evan, John, and Johns little girl left Philadelphia for a ranch on Canon Creek Wyoming. . . . 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"

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. . . . I dont know what they will do. . . . 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"

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

1900 census

1910 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.171A, Meridian Precinct, May 2, 1910, D.W. Letterhoff: EVAN MERCER, uncle, M W 38 [should read 48], widowed, PA PA IL, grader, lumber mill; with 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; Harry Mercer, bro-in-law, M W 9, WA PA PA.

Bayview Cemetery, Whatcom Co., WA 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)

Mercer,Evan H.,Sec.C Lot 157 Grave 6-A 0001642 8/9/1919 Mercer,H., Sec.C Lot 157 Grave 3-A 0001638 2/6/1923 http://www.bayviewcemetery.com/index.htm http://www.bayviewcemetery.com/source/htm/records.htm

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, Evan H son of Henry & Lizzie (JONES) MERCER b 19 Sep 1862 Titus Co TX d 9 Aug 1919