Cemetery lists him as a veteran.
death cert - MERCER, Jack
Author: Sharon Dulcich Date: 6 Nov 2002 1:49 AM GMT
Surnames: Mercer
Classification: Death
In Reply to: News Article - MERCER, Jack by: Sharon Dulcich
MERCER ELIE JACK
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Kern County Deaths
Doc # 6319470094 - filed 11/29/2000
Elie Jack Mercer
male, white
age: 51 years, 5 months, 27 days
married
spouse: Margaret Elizabeth Mercer; age 34
Born: 25 April 1896, Summerton, Georgia
Died 23 Nov 1947, 5 a.m., Tehachapi Valley Hospital, Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA
father: unknown
born: unknown
Mother: unknown
born: unknown
Occupation: farm labor - Fruit farms
Length of stay in Kern Co: 0 In Hospital: 9 hours In CA: 16 years
Military service: World War I
Usual address: General Delivery, Edison, CA
Informant: Margaret E. Mercer, General Delivery, Edison, CA
Disposition: burial, Nov. 26, 1947; Mojave Cemetery, Mojave, CA
Funeral Director: O'Donnell Funeral Home, Mojave, CA
Cause of death: cerebral concussion
Due to: accident - rural Tehachapi, Public highway; Thrown from car when failed to make railroad crossing turn and overturned.
Other significant factors: internal injuries and hemorrhaging
Death: MERCER, Elie Jack
Author: Don Stowell Date: 26 Jan 2005 2:20 PM GMT
Classification: Death
Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society
Courtesy of Mojave Desert News, California City, Kern, CA
Published: MDN 27 Nov 1947
Ely Jack Mercer, 51, of Gilroy lost his life at Monolith on Saturday last when his car went out of control as he was making a sharp left hand turn to cross the Southern Pacific tracks at Monolith. The car missed the crossing and rolled over onto the main line of the railroad where it was struck by an oncoming S. P. train. Mercer's body was taken to the mortuary of the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Margaret E. Mercer and daughter, Margery, of Edison, Calif. Funeral services were held yesterday at the graveside in Mojave Cemetery with the Rev. John C. Hanchett officiating.
CADI
Elie Jack Mercer
b. 25 Apr 1896, GA
d. 23 Nov 1947, Kern County
Father: John A. MERCER b: Apr 1866 in Columbia County, Ga
Mother: Martha WELCH b: May 1874 in Columbia County, Ga
Marriage 1 Margaret Elizabeth WELCH b: 1913 in Ga
You requested a search for an article about the death of:
MERCER ELIE JACK (Possible train wreck victim)
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Tehachapi News, Thursday, November 27, 1947
Gilroy Man Dies from Car Accident
Death Curve on Highway 466 east of Monolith claimed another life Saturday night when Jack Mercer of Gilroy, coming from the East, failed to notice the curve and swung his car suddenly striking the railroad signal tower, throwing him from the car. The car stopped on the railroad tracks and a train crashed into it, completely demolishing the vehicle.
Mercer was brought to the Tehachapi hospital where he died Sunday from injuries received.
There has been a number of bad accidents at this bad curve in the past two years and every effort is being made to have the curve eliminated but nothing has been done, although the highway dept. says the money has been appropriated to fix the dangerous spot.
1920 United States Federal Census Record
about Elie Mercer
Name: Elie Mercer
Age: 22 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1898
Birthplace: Georgia
Race: White
Home in 1920: Augusta Ward 5, Richmond, Georgia
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Nephew
Able to read: No
Able to Write: No
Mother's Birth Place: Georgia
Father's Birth Place: Georgia
Image: 810
Elie Jack Mercer first appears on the US Census in 1900 in Richmond County, Georgia
He and his first wife Velma Greenway appears on the 1920 US Census and they are
living with Richard Coleman Welch who was Elie's Uncle, Martha's brother.
Velma died in 1922 at the age of 17 and is buried in the NoonDay Cemetery in
Emanuel County, Georgia He is the son of the elusive John A. and Martha Welch
Mercer, he is the third of four sons and was born in 1896 in Summerton, Georgia in
Emanuel County.
According to written documentation Elie died Nov 23 1947 from a cerebral concussion in the Tehachapi Valley Hospital in Kern County, California as the result of a car/train collision
and was buried on 26 Nov 1947 in the Mojave Cemetery in Mojave, California.
Information was obtained from Kern County, California death certificate # 6319470094.
Elie appears to have moved to California in or about 1931 since his death certificate says
he had been in California for 16 years and worked as a farm laborer on fruit farms. He is said to have served in the military during World War 1. This information was rendered by his second wife and death certificate informant Margaret Elizabeth Mercer.
death cert - MERCER, Jack
Author: Sharon Dulcich Date: 6 Nov 2002 1:49 AM GMT
Surnames: Mercer
Classification: Death
In Reply to: News Article - MERCER, Jack by: Sharon Dulcich
MERCER ELIE JACK
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Kern County Deaths
Doc # 6319470094 - filed 11/29/2000
Elie Jack Mercer
male, white
age: 51 years, 5 months, 27 days
married
spouse: Margaret Elizabeth Mercer; age 34
Born: 25 April 1896, Summerton, Georgia
Died 23 Nov 1947, 5 a.m., Tehachapi Valley Hospital, Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA
father: unknown
born: unknown
Mother: unknown
born: unknown
Occupation: farm labor - Fruit farms
Length of stay in Kern Co: 0 In Hospital: 9 hours In CA: 16 years
Military service: World War I
Usual address: General Delivery, Edison, CA
Informant: Margaret E. Mercer, General Delivery, Edison, CA
Disposition: burial, Nov. 26, 1947; Mojave Cemetery, Mojave, CA
Funeral Director: O'Donnell Funeral Home, Mojave, CA
Cause of death: cerebral concussion
Due to: accident - rural Tehachapi, Public highway; Thrown from car when failed to make railroad crossing turn and overturned.
Other significant factors: internal injuries and hemorrhaging
Death: MERCER, Elie Jack
Author: Don Stowell Date: 26 Jan 2005 2:20 PM GMT
Classification: Death
Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society
Courtesy of Mojave Desert News, California City, Kern, CA
Published: MDN 27 Nov 1947
Ely Jack Mercer, 51, of Gilroy lost his life at Monolith on Saturday last when his car went out of control as he was making a sharp left hand turn to cross the Southern Pacific tracks at Monolith. The car missed the crossing and rolled over onto the main line of the railroad where it was struck by an oncoming S. P. train. Mercer's body was taken to the mortuary of the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Margaret E. Mercer and daughter, Margery, of Edison, Calif. Funeral services were held yesterday at the graveside in Mojave Cemetery with the Rev. John C. Hanchett officiating.
CADI
Elie Jack Mercer
b. 25 Apr 1896, GA
d. 23 Nov 1947, Kern County
Father: John A. MERCER b: Apr 1866 in Columbia County, Ga
Mother: Martha WELCH b: May 1874 in Columbia County, Ga
Marriage 1 Margaret Elizabeth WELCH b: 1913 in Ga
You requested a search for an article about the death of:
MERCER ELIE JACK (Possible train wreck victim)
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Tehachapi News, Thursday, November 27, 1947
Gilroy Man Dies from Car Accident
Death Curve on Highway 466 east of Monolith claimed another life Saturday night when Jack Mercer of Gilroy, coming from the East, failed to notice the curve and swung his car suddenly striking the railroad signal tower, throwing him from the car. The car stopped on the railroad tracks and a train crashed into it, completely demolishing the vehicle.
Mercer was brought to the Tehachapi hospital where he died Sunday from injuries received.
There has been a number of bad accidents at this bad curve in the past two years and every effort is being made to have the curve eliminated but nothing has been done, although the highway dept. says the money has been appropriated to fix the dangerous spot.
1920 United States Federal Census Record
about Elie Mercer
Name: Elie Mercer
Age: 22 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1898
Birthplace: Georgia
Race: White
Home in 1920: Augusta Ward 5, Richmond, Georgia
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Nephew
Able to read: No
Able to Write: No
Mother's Birth Place: Georgia
Father's Birth Place: Georgia
Image: 810
Elie Jack Mercer first appears on the US Census in 1900 in Richmond County, Georgia
He and his first wife Velma Greenway appears on the 1920 US Census and they are
living with Richard Coleman Welch who was Elie's Uncle, Martha's brother.
Velma died in 1922 at the age of 17 and is buried in the NoonDay Cemetery in
Emanuel County, Georgia He is the son of the elusive John A. and Martha Welch
Mercer, he is the third of four sons and was born in 1896 in Summerton, Georgia in
Emanuel County.
According to written documentation Elie died Nov 23 1947 from a cerebral concussion in the Tehachapi Valley Hospital in Kern County, California as the result of a car/train collision
and was buried on 26 Nov 1947 in the Mojave Cemetery in Mojave, California.
Information was obtained from Kern County, California death certificate # 6319470094.
Elie appears to have moved to California in or about 1931 since his death certificate says
he had been in California for 16 years and worked as a farm laborer on fruit farms. He is said to have served in the military during World War 1. This information was rendered by his second wife and death certificate informant Margaret Elizabeth Mercer.
Cemetery lists him as a veteran.
death cert - MERCER, Jack
Author: Sharon Dulcich Date: 6 Nov 2002 1:49 AM GMT
Surnames: Mercer
Classification: Death
In Reply to: News Article - MERCER, Jack by: Sharon Dulcich
MERCER ELIE JACK
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Kern County Deaths
Doc # 6319470094 - filed 11/29/2000
Elie Jack Mercer
male, white
age: 51 years, 5 months, 27 days
married
spouse: Margaret Elizabeth Mercer; age 34
Born: 25 April 1896, Summerton, Georgia
Died 23 Nov 1947, 5 a.m., Tehachapi Valley Hospital, Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA
father: unknown
born: unknown
Mother: unknown
born: unknown
Occupation: farm labor - Fruit farms
Length of stay in Kern Co: 0 In Hospital: 9 hours In CA: 16 years
Military service: World War I
Usual address: General Delivery, Edison, CA
Informant: Margaret E. Mercer, General Delivery, Edison, CA
Disposition: burial, Nov. 26, 1947; Mojave Cemetery, Mojave, CA
Funeral Director: O'Donnell Funeral Home, Mojave, CA
Cause of death: cerebral concussion
Due to: accident - rural Tehachapi, Public highway; Thrown from car when failed to make railroad crossing turn and overturned.
Other significant factors: internal injuries and hemorrhaging
Death: MERCER, Elie Jack
Author: Don Stowell Date: 26 Jan 2005 2:20 PM GMT
Classification: Death
Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society
Courtesy of Mojave Desert News, California City, Kern, CA
Published: MDN 27 Nov 1947
Ely Jack Mercer, 51, of Gilroy lost his life at Monolith on Saturday last when his car went out of control as he was making a sharp left hand turn to cross the Southern Pacific tracks at Monolith. The car missed the crossing and rolled over onto the main line of the railroad where it was struck by an oncoming S. P. train. Mercer's body was taken to the mortuary of the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Margaret E. Mercer and daughter, Margery, of Edison, Calif. Funeral services were held yesterday at the graveside in Mojave Cemetery with the Rev. John C. Hanchett officiating.
CADI
Elie Jack Mercer
b. 25 Apr 1896, GA
d. 23 Nov 1947, Kern County
Father: John A. MERCER b: Apr 1866 in Columbia County, Ga
Mother: Martha WELCH b: May 1874 in Columbia County, Ga
Marriage 1 Margaret Elizabeth WELCH b: 1913 in Ga
You requested a search for an article about the death of:
MERCER ELIE JACK (Possible train wreck victim)
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Tehachapi News, Thursday, November 27, 1947
Gilroy Man Dies from Car Accident
Death Curve on Highway 466 east of Monolith claimed another life Saturday night when Jack Mercer of Gilroy, coming from the East, failed to notice the curve and swung his car suddenly striking the railroad signal tower, throwing him from the car. The car stopped on the railroad tracks and a train crashed into it, completely demolishing the vehicle.
Mercer was brought to the Tehachapi hospital where he died Sunday from injuries received.
There has been a number of bad accidents at this bad curve in the past two years and every effort is being made to have the curve eliminated but nothing has been done, although the highway dept. says the money has been appropriated to fix the dangerous spot.
1920 United States Federal Census Record
about Elie Mercer
Name: Elie Mercer
Age: 22 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1898
Birthplace: Georgia
Race: White
Home in 1920: Augusta Ward 5, Richmond, Georgia
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Nephew
Able to read: No
Able to Write: No
Mother's Birth Place: Georgia
Father's Birth Place: Georgia
Image: 810
Elie Jack Mercer first appears on the US Census in 1900 in Richmond County, Georgia
He and his first wife Velma Greenway appears on the 1920 US Census and they are
living with Richard Coleman Welch who was Elie's Uncle, Martha's brother.
Velma died in 1922 at the age of 17 and is buried in the NoonDay Cemetery in
Emanuel County, Georgia He is the son of the elusive John A. and Martha Welch
Mercer, he is the third of four sons and was born in 1896 in Summerton, Georgia in
Emanuel County.
According to written documentation Elie died Nov 23 1947 from a cerebral concussion in the Tehachapi Valley Hospital in Kern County, California as the result of a car/train collision
and was buried on 26 Nov 1947 in the Mojave Cemetery in Mojave, California.
Information was obtained from Kern County, California death certificate # 6319470094.
Elie appears to have moved to California in or about 1931 since his death certificate says
he had been in California for 16 years and worked as a farm laborer on fruit farms. He is said to have served in the military during World War 1. This information was rendered by his second wife and death certificate informant Margaret Elizabeth Mercer.
death cert - MERCER, Jack
Author: Sharon Dulcich Date: 6 Nov 2002 1:49 AM GMT
Surnames: Mercer
Classification: Death
In Reply to: News Article - MERCER, Jack by: Sharon Dulcich
MERCER ELIE JACK
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Kern County Deaths
Doc # 6319470094 - filed 11/29/2000
Elie Jack Mercer
male, white
age: 51 years, 5 months, 27 days
married
spouse: Margaret Elizabeth Mercer; age 34
Born: 25 April 1896, Summerton, Georgia
Died 23 Nov 1947, 5 a.m., Tehachapi Valley Hospital, Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA
father: unknown
born: unknown
Mother: unknown
born: unknown
Occupation: farm labor - Fruit farms
Length of stay in Kern Co: 0 In Hospital: 9 hours In CA: 16 years
Military service: World War I
Usual address: General Delivery, Edison, CA
Informant: Margaret E. Mercer, General Delivery, Edison, CA
Disposition: burial, Nov. 26, 1947; Mojave Cemetery, Mojave, CA
Funeral Director: O'Donnell Funeral Home, Mojave, CA
Cause of death: cerebral concussion
Due to: accident - rural Tehachapi, Public highway; Thrown from car when failed to make railroad crossing turn and overturned.
Other significant factors: internal injuries and hemorrhaging
Death: MERCER, Elie Jack
Author: Don Stowell Date: 26 Jan 2005 2:20 PM GMT
Classification: Death
Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society
Courtesy of Mojave Desert News, California City, Kern, CA
Published: MDN 27 Nov 1947
Ely Jack Mercer, 51, of Gilroy lost his life at Monolith on Saturday last when his car went out of control as he was making a sharp left hand turn to cross the Southern Pacific tracks at Monolith. The car missed the crossing and rolled over onto the main line of the railroad where it was struck by an oncoming S. P. train. Mercer's body was taken to the mortuary of the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Margaret E. Mercer and daughter, Margery, of Edison, Calif. Funeral services were held yesterday at the graveside in Mojave Cemetery with the Rev. John C. Hanchett officiating.
CADI
Elie Jack Mercer
b. 25 Apr 1896, GA
d. 23 Nov 1947, Kern County
Father: John A. MERCER b: Apr 1866 in Columbia County, Ga
Mother: Martha WELCH b: May 1874 in Columbia County, Ga
Marriage 1 Margaret Elizabeth WELCH b: 1913 in Ga
You requested a search for an article about the death of:
MERCER ELIE JACK (Possible train wreck victim)
born: 04/25/1896 M GEORGIA
died: KERN 11/23/1947
age: 51 yrs
Tehachapi News, Thursday, November 27, 1947
Gilroy Man Dies from Car Accident
Death Curve on Highway 466 east of Monolith claimed another life Saturday night when Jack Mercer of Gilroy, coming from the East, failed to notice the curve and swung his car suddenly striking the railroad signal tower, throwing him from the car. The car stopped on the railroad tracks and a train crashed into it, completely demolishing the vehicle.
Mercer was brought to the Tehachapi hospital where he died Sunday from injuries received.
There has been a number of bad accidents at this bad curve in the past two years and every effort is being made to have the curve eliminated but nothing has been done, although the highway dept. says the money has been appropriated to fix the dangerous spot.
1920 United States Federal Census Record
about Elie Mercer
Name: Elie Mercer
Age: 22 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1898
Birthplace: Georgia
Race: White
Home in 1920: Augusta Ward 5, Richmond, Georgia
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Nephew
Able to read: No
Able to Write: No
Mother's Birth Place: Georgia
Father's Birth Place: Georgia
Image: 810
Elie Jack Mercer first appears on the US Census in 1900 in Richmond County, Georgia
He and his first wife Velma Greenway appears on the 1920 US Census and they are
living with Richard Coleman Welch who was Elie's Uncle, Martha's brother.
Velma died in 1922 at the age of 17 and is buried in the NoonDay Cemetery in
Emanuel County, Georgia He is the son of the elusive John A. and Martha Welch
Mercer, he is the third of four sons and was born in 1896 in Summerton, Georgia in
Emanuel County.
According to written documentation Elie died Nov 23 1947 from a cerebral concussion in the Tehachapi Valley Hospital in Kern County, California as the result of a car/train collision
and was buried on 26 Nov 1947 in the Mojave Cemetery in Mojave, California.
Information was obtained from Kern County, California death certificate # 6319470094.
Elie appears to have moved to California in or about 1931 since his death certificate says
he had been in California for 16 years and worked as a farm laborer on fruit farms. He is said to have served in the military during World War 1. This information was rendered by his second wife and death certificate informant Margaret Elizabeth Mercer.
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