Richard MELEAR, 18961977 (aged 80 years)

Name
Richard /MELEAR/
Given names
Richard
Surname
MELEAR
Birth
December 15, 1896
Kerens, Navarro, Texas, USA
Latitude: 32.133056 Longitude: -96.2275
Marriage
July 15, 1923 (aged 26 years)
Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, USA
Latitude: 31.795833 Longitude: -95.15
Occupation
Source: Daniel, James
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Note: Information from 1930 census, Ancestry.com, Henderson Co., TX, Prec. 8, Dist. 28, Trinidad, sheet no. 2A, enum. date 2 Apr 1930.
INDI:OCCU:SOUR:_NOTE: YES
Note: retail merchant
Death
August 6, 1977 (aged 80 years)
Trinidad, Henderson, Texas, USA
Latitude: 32.133056 Longitude: -96.2275
Burial
Kerens Cemetery/Restland Cemetery, Kerens, Navarro, Texas, USA
Latitude: 32.133056 Longitude: -96.2275
Family with parents
father
18591939
Birth: November 5, 1859Fayetteville, Lincoln, Tennessee, USA
Death: 1939Trinidad, Henderson, Texas, USA
mother
18661944
Birth: March 31, 1866Wadeville, Navarro, Texas, USA
Death: December 1944Lufkin, Angelina, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageMay 12, 1886
1 year
elder brother
14 months
elder sister
18881943
Birth: July 15, 1888Kerens, Navarro, Texas, USA
Death: March 3, 1943Lufkin, Angelina, Texas, USA
21 months
elder sister
18901986
Birth: March 29, 1890Kerens, Navarro, Texas, USA
Death: October 20, 1986Lufkin, Angelina, Texas, USA
5 years
elder sister
18941968
Birth: November 16, 1894
Death: March 1968Lufkin, Angelina, Texas, USA
2 years
himself
18961977
Birth: December 15, 1896Kerens, Navarro, Texas, USA
Death: August 6, 1977Trinidad, Henderson, Texas, USA
Family with Mary Dee SHEARON
himself
18961977
Birth: December 15, 1896Kerens, Navarro, Texas, USA
Death: August 6, 1977Trinidad, Henderson, Texas, USA
wife
18941949
Birth: January 25, 1894Troy, Obion, Tennessee, USA
Death: August 12, 1949Trinidad, Henderson, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageJuly 15, 1923Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, USA
son
Occupation
Source: Daniel, James
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Note: Information from 1930 census, Ancestry.com, Henderson Co., TX, Prec. 8, Dist. 28, Trinidad, sheet no. 2A, enum. date 2 Apr 1930.
INDI:OCCU:SOUR:_NOTE: YES
Shared note
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: October 23, 2003
Occupation

retail merchant

Information from 1930 census, Ancestry.com, Henderson Co., TX, Prec. 8, Dist. 28, Trinidad, sheet no. 2A, enum. date 2 Apr 1930.

Shared note

He had no middle name (Dan Melear, 1992). He served in the Navy during WW I. He and his cousin Will Melear (son of Ella Ann (Daniel) Melear) bought and operated a power plant in Lometa, TX. They sold out to Texas Power & Light in 1926. He had an independent auto repair shop in Trinidad, TX for 49 years.
1930 Census, Henderson Co., Prec. 8., Dist. 28, Trinidad, TX, family 28
Richard H. Melear 35, b TN with his wife Mary 34, b. TX, son Richard 5, b MO. Richard and his parents were all born in TN, Mary was born in TX, and her parents in AL. Richard worked as a retail merchant in the grocery industry.

Social Security Death Index: U.S., 1937-1997
Melear, Richard
Birth date : 15 Dec 1896
Issued in : Texas
Death date : Aug 1977
SS# : 452-05-7597
Residence code : Texas
Zip code of last known residence : 75163
Zip code of address where death payment was sent : 75144