Melvin Thomas Ellis and Lorraine Morrill
Melvin Thomas Ellis
- Born
- 06 FEB 1920[1] at Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Okla.
- Died
- 20 MAY 2010[7]
- Married
- 19 AUG 1940[10]
- Father
- James Theodore Ellis
- Mother
- Bonnie ____
The obituary index of Melvin Thomas Ellis, published on 28 May 2010, gives his birth at Shawnee, Oklahoma, on 6 February 1920, his death on 20 May 2010, his parents as James Ellis and Bonnie Ellis, his wife Lorraine Morrill and his sons Tom and Jim. The marriage date of 19 August 1940 appears only on the index search rows for the entry, not on its detail page, and the newspaper text was not read; Lorraine was still single and living with her parents at the 1940 census in April. Needs independent verification: the obituary text, and a marriage record.[11]
In the 1940 census, twenty-one-year-old Melvin Ellis, born in Oklahoma, was still living in the household of his parents J. T. Ellis and Bonnie Ellis at San Buenaventura (Ventura), California, with his brother Leon. In the 1930 census, ten-year-old Melvin Ellis, born in Oklahoma, was living at Oxnard, Ventura County, California, in the household of his parents Theodore J. Ellis and Bonnie Ellis, with his brothers Lawrence and Leon.[13]
NOTE: Needs independent verification: the birth and death of Melvin Thomas Ellis rest on California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947, United States, Social Security Death Index – Melvin Thomas Ellis, United States, Census, 1940, United States, Census, 1930 and Find a Grave (primary/secondary/undetermined information) alone and have not yet been confirmed by a second source.
Lorraine Morrill
- Born
- 06 APR 1921[15] at Ventura, Calif.
- Resided
- 1940[18] at Ventura, Ventura, Calif.
- Died
- 17 MAY 2011[19]
- Buried
- [22] at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura, Ventura, Calif.
- Father
- Frank Edgar Morrill
- Mother
- Irma Johnson
Lorraine Morrill was born in Ventura County, California, on 6 April 1921. Her obituary, published in the Ventura County Star, names her husband Melvin Ellis and two sons, Tom and Jim, and gives Montalvo as her birthplace; it records her residence in Ventura but does not say where she died.[23]
NOTE: Needs independent verification: the death rests on United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015 (secondary information) alone and has not yet been confirmed by a second source.
Identity distinguished from Mary Lorraine Morrill (b. 7 Nov 1921, daughter of Albert Wilson Morrill and Abigail Lorraine Shellenburger) by the Social Security Death Index, which gives Lorraine Morrill Ellis born on 6 April 1921, and by the 1940 census, which lists Lorraine, 19, single, in the Ventura household of Frank E Morrill and Irma with her sister Geraldine. Needs independent verification: a record of her death naming a place.[24]