Person:John Mercer (16)

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 . . . John is in the lumber yard, / Lydia husband works there too"

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."

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: "John is with Lydia in Philadelphia"

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 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.255A, New Whatcom, E.D. 245, June 18, 1900, William H. Campbell: 845 Garden, 461/461, ELIZABETH MERCER, 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, 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.

(no) 1910 Spokane Co., WA, census, p.59B, Ward 4, Spokane, JOHN L. MERCER, 46, NY.

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, widowed, PA PA IL, grader, lumber mill; Harry Mercer, bro-in-law, M W 9, WA PA PA.

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

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.

(?) 1945 July 18, JOHN L. MERCER, male, age 82, died in Snohomish Co., WA; certificate 266. Washington Death Index, 1940-1996 (Ancestry.com)