Ross married Laverna Lemasters in 1860.
The 1870 census revealed they were living in McElroy, Tyler Co, West Virginia. Household members: Ross Elder (30), Leverna Elder (28), Rawley Elder (7), John Elder (4) and Mary Elder (2).
The 1880 census revealed household members: Ross Elder (41), Laverna Elder (39), Emanuel Elder (17), John Elder (15), Mary A. Elder (12), Emma J. Elder (7), Joseph S. Elder (5), George W. Elder (3).
The 1900 census revealed they had been married forty years had twelve children, five still living. Household members: Ross Elder (60), Leverna Elder (58), Maryan Elder (32) and Ervin Elder (13).
The 1910 census revealed they had been married fifty years had twelve children, seven still living. Household members: Ross Elder (70), Leverna Elder (68), Mary Elder (41).
Their known children:
William A Elder (b.1861) DY
Emanuel Rawley (b.1862)
James Sylvester Elder (b.1866 d.1866) DY
John Elder (b.1867)
Mary Ann Elder (b.1868)
Amos Nelson Elder (b.1871 d.1871) DY
Emma J Elder (b.1872)
Joseph S Elder (b.1875)
George Wesley Elder (b.1876)
Clema Irvin Elder (b.1886)
The following was submitted by Eli Henthorn (#48015724)
Ross and Laverna set up housekeeping in the head of Headley Fork, a branch of Walnut Fork, which drains into Indian Creek, a tributary of Middle Island Creek, the longest creek in West Virginia not to be called a river. Most of the families on the Lemasters and Headley Fork's of Walnut Fork were related, as the land was settled by Elisha Headley (Headley Fork) and on the Lemasters Fork settled Rawley Lemasters and wife, Jerusha (Headley) Lemasters (Elisha's sister, Laverna's parents), and Enoch Lemasters (brother to Rawley) and wife Sarah (Headley) Lemasters (sister to Elisha & Jerusha).
The following information comes from the autobiography of C. Irvin Elder, their son, and from their death records and a visit to the Lemasters (aka Tennant) Cemetery:
They lived in a log house, with a frame shed kitchen built at the rear of the log house and a long porch in front of the house. The log part also had an upstairs.
Laverna always wanted Ross to build a frame room in front of the house, but he did not do it until their son, C. Irvin Elder was a young man. She did succeed in getting him to buiuld a partition through the living room, and make a bedroom out of the rear part.
There was a bed in the corner of the living room by the fireplace, and that is where Ross & Laverna slept. Two beds were in the rear bedroom for MAry Ann & Emma Jane, and three beds upstairs for the boys. When the new room was built in front of the house, their son C. Irvin Elder used that room. His brothers, "Bub" and "Wes" as he called them were gone by then.
During the cold winter days they always sat around the log fire in the living room, but we also had a small fireplace in the kitchen. In the spring and autumn when the weather was too cold to not have any fire and not cold enough to have a fire in the living room, they would build a fire in the kitchen chimney.
Shortly after they bought the farm, the Civil War began. Ross joined the Home Guards, but he said about every day the Home Guards were called out to arrest someone, and often they were neighbors and friends; so he became disgusted with doing that and volunteered in the Army of the North and served all through the Civil War. He served under Gen. Sheridan and was present at Sheridan's ride. When Irvin was a little boy, he always enjoyed having him relate that account, first hand, of Sheridan's ride.
Ross said the army was in camp for the night on a ridge of a small hill. The soldiers were preparing to eat breakfast, and he was making some coffee for his canteen when their scouts gave the alarm that the Confederates were coming to attack them. Gen. Sheridan was at Winchester, Virginia, twenty miles away at a hotel in conference with some other northern generals. Some under-generals called the army into formation and ordered them to march to meet the enemy.
The soldiers did not have any faith in the under-generals, but they fought a while, then started slowly retreating and soon they were “dog trotting”, as Ross always said, or slowly running.
In the meantime Gen. Sheridan heard the shots in the hotel at Winchester, twenty miles away. He jumped on his black horse, and when he met his army the black horse was almost white with lather.
Gen. Sheridan said, “Boys, you must face the other way.” Then he rode up and down the line and waving his hat, he said, “Boys, where you slept last night you shall sleep tonight.” The soldiers yelled and shouted and threw their hats in the air, quickly got in formation, “faced the other way,” and soon the Confederate army was retreating in a run. Ross said that night he slept on the ground within two feet of where he had slept the night before.
Ross & Laverna’s nearest neighbor was James Wesley “Jim” Headley, who lived almost in sight of their house. Jim owned a small hillside farm, one field wide, but about three-quarters of a mile long, and joining Ross & Laverna’s farm all the way. There was quite a bit of hard feeling at times between Jim and Ross over the location of the dividing line between the two farms. Of course, both property owners are supposed to furnish the material for the line fence (which in this case were fence rails) and an equal amount of joint-labor in building a line fence. At one time Jim got so mad over the line dispute he split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and Ross split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and a cow could just about get through between the two fences. It is not known how long the two fences remained there, but as far back as Irvin could remember, there was only one fence.
When Irvin was about eight or ten years old the old rail fence was about rotted down, and Jim and Ross had decided to build a barb wire fence. Jim and his sons Thomas “Tom” and William “Bill”, who was about Irvin’s age, and Ross, “Wes,” and Irvin met at the place designated to begin. Ross said, “Jim, I have a suggestion to make: I suggest that Tom and Wes set the posts – no interference from us – you and I stretch the wire and nail it, and Bill and Irvin carry the drinking water.”
The suggestion was accepted by Jim, so the last fence was built in harmony and good feeling.
In 1907, four of Ross & Laverna’s sons lived in Stringtown (Alvy P.O.). They became so lonesome on the farm and so anxious to be near to them, they rented the farm to their daughter, Emma Jane and her husband Richard Bailey and moved to Alvy, and that is where they ended their days.
Ross died September 7, 1918, at the age of 78 years, 11 months, and 27 days, and Laverna on March 2, 1926, at the ripe age of 84 years, 3 months, and 6 days. Cause of death was a hernia with obstruction to the bowels.
There bodies were laid to rest in the Lemasters Cemetery (referred to by many in that day as the Tennant Cemetery), which her father’s family had established. Many other family members are buried there, as are her parents, all but two of her six siblings, 5 of their infant children (William Albert, James Sylvester, Amos Nelson, Jerusha Elmira, and an unnamed infant son, and numerous aunts and uncles. A grandchild of theirs, Ronald Everett Elder, born December 16, 1918, and died February 27, 1920, son of their son C. Irvin Elder, was interred there until they decided to move him to a cemetery near West Union where they would come to be buried.
The 1870 census revealed they were living in McElroy, Tyler Co, West Virginia. Household members: Ross Elder (30), Leverna Elder (28), Rawley Elder (7), John Elder (4) and Mary Elder (2).
The 1880 census revealed household members: Ross Elder (41), Laverna Elder (39), Emanuel Elder (17), John Elder (15), Mary A. Elder (12), Emma J. Elder (7), Joseph S. Elder (5), George W. Elder (3).
The 1900 census revealed they had been married forty years had twelve children, five still living. Household members: Ross Elder (60), Leverna Elder (58), Maryan Elder (32) and Ervin Elder (13).
The 1910 census revealed they had been married fifty years had twelve children, seven still living. Household members: Ross Elder (70), Leverna Elder (68), Mary Elder (41).
Their known children:
William A Elder (b.1861) DY
Emanuel Rawley (b.1862)
James Sylvester Elder (b.1866 d.1866) DY
John Elder (b.1867)
Mary Ann Elder (b.1868)
Amos Nelson Elder (b.1871 d.1871) DY
Emma J Elder (b.1872)
Joseph S Elder (b.1875)
George Wesley Elder (b.1876)
Clema Irvin Elder (b.1886)
The following was submitted by Eli Henthorn (#48015724)
Ross and Laverna set up housekeeping in the head of Headley Fork, a branch of Walnut Fork, which drains into Indian Creek, a tributary of Middle Island Creek, the longest creek in West Virginia not to be called a river. Most of the families on the Lemasters and Headley Fork's of Walnut Fork were related, as the land was settled by Elisha Headley (Headley Fork) and on the Lemasters Fork settled Rawley Lemasters and wife, Jerusha (Headley) Lemasters (Elisha's sister, Laverna's parents), and Enoch Lemasters (brother to Rawley) and wife Sarah (Headley) Lemasters (sister to Elisha & Jerusha).
The following information comes from the autobiography of C. Irvin Elder, their son, and from their death records and a visit to the Lemasters (aka Tennant) Cemetery:
They lived in a log house, with a frame shed kitchen built at the rear of the log house and a long porch in front of the house. The log part also had an upstairs.
Laverna always wanted Ross to build a frame room in front of the house, but he did not do it until their son, C. Irvin Elder was a young man. She did succeed in getting him to buiuld a partition through the living room, and make a bedroom out of the rear part.
There was a bed in the corner of the living room by the fireplace, and that is where Ross & Laverna slept. Two beds were in the rear bedroom for MAry Ann & Emma Jane, and three beds upstairs for the boys. When the new room was built in front of the house, their son C. Irvin Elder used that room. His brothers, "Bub" and "Wes" as he called them were gone by then.
During the cold winter days they always sat around the log fire in the living room, but we also had a small fireplace in the kitchen. In the spring and autumn when the weather was too cold to not have any fire and not cold enough to have a fire in the living room, they would build a fire in the kitchen chimney.
Shortly after they bought the farm, the Civil War began. Ross joined the Home Guards, but he said about every day the Home Guards were called out to arrest someone, and often they were neighbors and friends; so he became disgusted with doing that and volunteered in the Army of the North and served all through the Civil War. He served under Gen. Sheridan and was present at Sheridan's ride. When Irvin was a little boy, he always enjoyed having him relate that account, first hand, of Sheridan's ride.
Ross said the army was in camp for the night on a ridge of a small hill. The soldiers were preparing to eat breakfast, and he was making some coffee for his canteen when their scouts gave the alarm that the Confederates were coming to attack them. Gen. Sheridan was at Winchester, Virginia, twenty miles away at a hotel in conference with some other northern generals. Some under-generals called the army into formation and ordered them to march to meet the enemy.
The soldiers did not have any faith in the under-generals, but they fought a while, then started slowly retreating and soon they were “dog trotting”, as Ross always said, or slowly running.
In the meantime Gen. Sheridan heard the shots in the hotel at Winchester, twenty miles away. He jumped on his black horse, and when he met his army the black horse was almost white with lather.
Gen. Sheridan said, “Boys, you must face the other way.” Then he rode up and down the line and waving his hat, he said, “Boys, where you slept last night you shall sleep tonight.” The soldiers yelled and shouted and threw their hats in the air, quickly got in formation, “faced the other way,” and soon the Confederate army was retreating in a run. Ross said that night he slept on the ground within two feet of where he had slept the night before.
Ross & Laverna’s nearest neighbor was James Wesley “Jim” Headley, who lived almost in sight of their house. Jim owned a small hillside farm, one field wide, but about three-quarters of a mile long, and joining Ross & Laverna’s farm all the way. There was quite a bit of hard feeling at times between Jim and Ross over the location of the dividing line between the two farms. Of course, both property owners are supposed to furnish the material for the line fence (which in this case were fence rails) and an equal amount of joint-labor in building a line fence. At one time Jim got so mad over the line dispute he split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and Ross split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and a cow could just about get through between the two fences. It is not known how long the two fences remained there, but as far back as Irvin could remember, there was only one fence.
When Irvin was about eight or ten years old the old rail fence was about rotted down, and Jim and Ross had decided to build a barb wire fence. Jim and his sons Thomas “Tom” and William “Bill”, who was about Irvin’s age, and Ross, “Wes,” and Irvin met at the place designated to begin. Ross said, “Jim, I have a suggestion to make: I suggest that Tom and Wes set the posts – no interference from us – you and I stretch the wire and nail it, and Bill and Irvin carry the drinking water.”
The suggestion was accepted by Jim, so the last fence was built in harmony and good feeling.
In 1907, four of Ross & Laverna’s sons lived in Stringtown (Alvy P.O.). They became so lonesome on the farm and so anxious to be near to them, they rented the farm to their daughter, Emma Jane and her husband Richard Bailey and moved to Alvy, and that is where they ended their days.
Ross died September 7, 1918, at the age of 78 years, 11 months, and 27 days, and Laverna on March 2, 1926, at the ripe age of 84 years, 3 months, and 6 days. Cause of death was a hernia with obstruction to the bowels.
There bodies were laid to rest in the Lemasters Cemetery (referred to by many in that day as the Tennant Cemetery), which her father’s family had established. Many other family members are buried there, as are her parents, all but two of her six siblings, 5 of their infant children (William Albert, James Sylvester, Amos Nelson, Jerusha Elmira, and an unnamed infant son, and numerous aunts and uncles. A grandchild of theirs, Ronald Everett Elder, born December 16, 1918, and died February 27, 1920, son of their son C. Irvin Elder, was interred there until they decided to move him to a cemetery near West Union where they would come to be buried.
Ross married Laverna Lemasters in 1860.
The 1870 census revealed they were living in McElroy, Tyler Co, West Virginia. Household members: Ross Elder (30), Leverna Elder (28), Rawley Elder (7), John Elder (4) and Mary Elder (2).
The 1880 census revealed household members: Ross Elder (41), Laverna Elder (39), Emanuel Elder (17), John Elder (15), Mary A. Elder (12), Emma J. Elder (7), Joseph S. Elder (5), George W. Elder (3).
The 1900 census revealed they had been married forty years had twelve children, five still living. Household members: Ross Elder (60), Leverna Elder (58), Maryan Elder (32) and Ervin Elder (13).
The 1910 census revealed they had been married fifty years had twelve children, seven still living. Household members: Ross Elder (70), Leverna Elder (68), Mary Elder (41).
Their known children:
William A Elder (b.1861) DY
Emanuel Rawley (b.1862)
James Sylvester Elder (b.1866 d.1866) DY
John Elder (b.1867)
Mary Ann Elder (b.1868)
Amos Nelson Elder (b.1871 d.1871) DY
Emma J Elder (b.1872)
Joseph S Elder (b.1875)
George Wesley Elder (b.1876)
Clema Irvin Elder (b.1886)
The following was submitted by Eli Henthorn (#48015724)
Ross and Laverna set up housekeeping in the head of Headley Fork, a branch of Walnut Fork, which drains into Indian Creek, a tributary of Middle Island Creek, the longest creek in West Virginia not to be called a river. Most of the families on the Lemasters and Headley Fork's of Walnut Fork were related, as the land was settled by Elisha Headley (Headley Fork) and on the Lemasters Fork settled Rawley Lemasters and wife, Jerusha (Headley) Lemasters (Elisha's sister, Laverna's parents), and Enoch Lemasters (brother to Rawley) and wife Sarah (Headley) Lemasters (sister to Elisha & Jerusha).
The following information comes from the autobiography of C. Irvin Elder, their son, and from their death records and a visit to the Lemasters (aka Tennant) Cemetery:
They lived in a log house, with a frame shed kitchen built at the rear of the log house and a long porch in front of the house. The log part also had an upstairs.
Laverna always wanted Ross to build a frame room in front of the house, but he did not do it until their son, C. Irvin Elder was a young man. She did succeed in getting him to buiuld a partition through the living room, and make a bedroom out of the rear part.
There was a bed in the corner of the living room by the fireplace, and that is where Ross & Laverna slept. Two beds were in the rear bedroom for MAry Ann & Emma Jane, and three beds upstairs for the boys. When the new room was built in front of the house, their son C. Irvin Elder used that room. His brothers, "Bub" and "Wes" as he called them were gone by then.
During the cold winter days they always sat around the log fire in the living room, but we also had a small fireplace in the kitchen. In the spring and autumn when the weather was too cold to not have any fire and not cold enough to have a fire in the living room, they would build a fire in the kitchen chimney.
Shortly after they bought the farm, the Civil War began. Ross joined the Home Guards, but he said about every day the Home Guards were called out to arrest someone, and often they were neighbors and friends; so he became disgusted with doing that and volunteered in the Army of the North and served all through the Civil War. He served under Gen. Sheridan and was present at Sheridan's ride. When Irvin was a little boy, he always enjoyed having him relate that account, first hand, of Sheridan's ride.
Ross said the army was in camp for the night on a ridge of a small hill. The soldiers were preparing to eat breakfast, and he was making some coffee for his canteen when their scouts gave the alarm that the Confederates were coming to attack them. Gen. Sheridan was at Winchester, Virginia, twenty miles away at a hotel in conference with some other northern generals. Some under-generals called the army into formation and ordered them to march to meet the enemy.
The soldiers did not have any faith in the under-generals, but they fought a while, then started slowly retreating and soon they were “dog trotting”, as Ross always said, or slowly running.
In the meantime Gen. Sheridan heard the shots in the hotel at Winchester, twenty miles away. He jumped on his black horse, and when he met his army the black horse was almost white with lather.
Gen. Sheridan said, “Boys, you must face the other way.” Then he rode up and down the line and waving his hat, he said, “Boys, where you slept last night you shall sleep tonight.” The soldiers yelled and shouted and threw their hats in the air, quickly got in formation, “faced the other way,” and soon the Confederate army was retreating in a run. Ross said that night he slept on the ground within two feet of where he had slept the night before.
Ross & Laverna’s nearest neighbor was James Wesley “Jim” Headley, who lived almost in sight of their house. Jim owned a small hillside farm, one field wide, but about three-quarters of a mile long, and joining Ross & Laverna’s farm all the way. There was quite a bit of hard feeling at times between Jim and Ross over the location of the dividing line between the two farms. Of course, both property owners are supposed to furnish the material for the line fence (which in this case were fence rails) and an equal amount of joint-labor in building a line fence. At one time Jim got so mad over the line dispute he split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and Ross split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and a cow could just about get through between the two fences. It is not known how long the two fences remained there, but as far back as Irvin could remember, there was only one fence.
When Irvin was about eight or ten years old the old rail fence was about rotted down, and Jim and Ross had decided to build a barb wire fence. Jim and his sons Thomas “Tom” and William “Bill”, who was about Irvin’s age, and Ross, “Wes,” and Irvin met at the place designated to begin. Ross said, “Jim, I have a suggestion to make: I suggest that Tom and Wes set the posts – no interference from us – you and I stretch the wire and nail it, and Bill and Irvin carry the drinking water.”
The suggestion was accepted by Jim, so the last fence was built in harmony and good feeling.
In 1907, four of Ross & Laverna’s sons lived in Stringtown (Alvy P.O.). They became so lonesome on the farm and so anxious to be near to them, they rented the farm to their daughter, Emma Jane and her husband Richard Bailey and moved to Alvy, and that is where they ended their days.
Ross died September 7, 1918, at the age of 78 years, 11 months, and 27 days, and Laverna on March 2, 1926, at the ripe age of 84 years, 3 months, and 6 days. Cause of death was a hernia with obstruction to the bowels.
There bodies were laid to rest in the Lemasters Cemetery (referred to by many in that day as the Tennant Cemetery), which her father’s family had established. Many other family members are buried there, as are her parents, all but two of her six siblings, 5 of their infant children (William Albert, James Sylvester, Amos Nelson, Jerusha Elmira, and an unnamed infant son, and numerous aunts and uncles. A grandchild of theirs, Ronald Everett Elder, born December 16, 1918, and died February 27, 1920, son of their son C. Irvin Elder, was interred there until they decided to move him to a cemetery near West Union where they would come to be buried.
The 1870 census revealed they were living in McElroy, Tyler Co, West Virginia. Household members: Ross Elder (30), Leverna Elder (28), Rawley Elder (7), John Elder (4) and Mary Elder (2).
The 1880 census revealed household members: Ross Elder (41), Laverna Elder (39), Emanuel Elder (17), John Elder (15), Mary A. Elder (12), Emma J. Elder (7), Joseph S. Elder (5), George W. Elder (3).
The 1900 census revealed they had been married forty years had twelve children, five still living. Household members: Ross Elder (60), Leverna Elder (58), Maryan Elder (32) and Ervin Elder (13).
The 1910 census revealed they had been married fifty years had twelve children, seven still living. Household members: Ross Elder (70), Leverna Elder (68), Mary Elder (41).
Their known children:
William A Elder (b.1861) DY
Emanuel Rawley (b.1862)
James Sylvester Elder (b.1866 d.1866) DY
John Elder (b.1867)
Mary Ann Elder (b.1868)
Amos Nelson Elder (b.1871 d.1871) DY
Emma J Elder (b.1872)
Joseph S Elder (b.1875)
George Wesley Elder (b.1876)
Clema Irvin Elder (b.1886)
The following was submitted by Eli Henthorn (#48015724)
Ross and Laverna set up housekeeping in the head of Headley Fork, a branch of Walnut Fork, which drains into Indian Creek, a tributary of Middle Island Creek, the longest creek in West Virginia not to be called a river. Most of the families on the Lemasters and Headley Fork's of Walnut Fork were related, as the land was settled by Elisha Headley (Headley Fork) and on the Lemasters Fork settled Rawley Lemasters and wife, Jerusha (Headley) Lemasters (Elisha's sister, Laverna's parents), and Enoch Lemasters (brother to Rawley) and wife Sarah (Headley) Lemasters (sister to Elisha & Jerusha).
The following information comes from the autobiography of C. Irvin Elder, their son, and from their death records and a visit to the Lemasters (aka Tennant) Cemetery:
They lived in a log house, with a frame shed kitchen built at the rear of the log house and a long porch in front of the house. The log part also had an upstairs.
Laverna always wanted Ross to build a frame room in front of the house, but he did not do it until their son, C. Irvin Elder was a young man. She did succeed in getting him to buiuld a partition through the living room, and make a bedroom out of the rear part.
There was a bed in the corner of the living room by the fireplace, and that is where Ross & Laverna slept. Two beds were in the rear bedroom for MAry Ann & Emma Jane, and three beds upstairs for the boys. When the new room was built in front of the house, their son C. Irvin Elder used that room. His brothers, "Bub" and "Wes" as he called them were gone by then.
During the cold winter days they always sat around the log fire in the living room, but we also had a small fireplace in the kitchen. In the spring and autumn when the weather was too cold to not have any fire and not cold enough to have a fire in the living room, they would build a fire in the kitchen chimney.
Shortly after they bought the farm, the Civil War began. Ross joined the Home Guards, but he said about every day the Home Guards were called out to arrest someone, and often they were neighbors and friends; so he became disgusted with doing that and volunteered in the Army of the North and served all through the Civil War. He served under Gen. Sheridan and was present at Sheridan's ride. When Irvin was a little boy, he always enjoyed having him relate that account, first hand, of Sheridan's ride.
Ross said the army was in camp for the night on a ridge of a small hill. The soldiers were preparing to eat breakfast, and he was making some coffee for his canteen when their scouts gave the alarm that the Confederates were coming to attack them. Gen. Sheridan was at Winchester, Virginia, twenty miles away at a hotel in conference with some other northern generals. Some under-generals called the army into formation and ordered them to march to meet the enemy.
The soldiers did not have any faith in the under-generals, but they fought a while, then started slowly retreating and soon they were “dog trotting”, as Ross always said, or slowly running.
In the meantime Gen. Sheridan heard the shots in the hotel at Winchester, twenty miles away. He jumped on his black horse, and when he met his army the black horse was almost white with lather.
Gen. Sheridan said, “Boys, you must face the other way.” Then he rode up and down the line and waving his hat, he said, “Boys, where you slept last night you shall sleep tonight.” The soldiers yelled and shouted and threw their hats in the air, quickly got in formation, “faced the other way,” and soon the Confederate army was retreating in a run. Ross said that night he slept on the ground within two feet of where he had slept the night before.
Ross & Laverna’s nearest neighbor was James Wesley “Jim” Headley, who lived almost in sight of their house. Jim owned a small hillside farm, one field wide, but about three-quarters of a mile long, and joining Ross & Laverna’s farm all the way. There was quite a bit of hard feeling at times between Jim and Ross over the location of the dividing line between the two farms. Of course, both property owners are supposed to furnish the material for the line fence (which in this case were fence rails) and an equal amount of joint-labor in building a line fence. At one time Jim got so mad over the line dispute he split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and Ross split rails and built a fence where he thought the line was, and a cow could just about get through between the two fences. It is not known how long the two fences remained there, but as far back as Irvin could remember, there was only one fence.
When Irvin was about eight or ten years old the old rail fence was about rotted down, and Jim and Ross had decided to build a barb wire fence. Jim and his sons Thomas “Tom” and William “Bill”, who was about Irvin’s age, and Ross, “Wes,” and Irvin met at the place designated to begin. Ross said, “Jim, I have a suggestion to make: I suggest that Tom and Wes set the posts – no interference from us – you and I stretch the wire and nail it, and Bill and Irvin carry the drinking water.”
The suggestion was accepted by Jim, so the last fence was built in harmony and good feeling.
In 1907, four of Ross & Laverna’s sons lived in Stringtown (Alvy P.O.). They became so lonesome on the farm and so anxious to be near to them, they rented the farm to their daughter, Emma Jane and her husband Richard Bailey and moved to Alvy, and that is where they ended their days.
Ross died September 7, 1918, at the age of 78 years, 11 months, and 27 days, and Laverna on March 2, 1926, at the ripe age of 84 years, 3 months, and 6 days. Cause of death was a hernia with obstruction to the bowels.
There bodies were laid to rest in the Lemasters Cemetery (referred to by many in that day as the Tennant Cemetery), which her father’s family had established. Many other family members are buried there, as are her parents, all but two of her six siblings, 5 of their infant children (William Albert, James Sylvester, Amos Nelson, Jerusha Elmira, and an unnamed infant son, and numerous aunts and uncles. A grandchild of theirs, Ronald Everett Elder, born December 16, 1918, and died February 27, 1920, son of their son C. Irvin Elder, was interred there until they decided to move him to a cemetery near West Union where they would come to be buried.
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