Every now and then I look up the death record for Leon Edward Summers, Sr. “Ed” was the third illegitimate child Amanda Summers had, my 2nd great-grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth “Lizzie” Summers being first and Leona “Lonie” Summers being second. Anyway, my hope is that I will be able to view the actual death certificate, just to see if it gives any inkling of a name for his father. I suspect, however, that James Anderson Proctor actually was Ed’s father, though I still do not believe JA was father to Lizzie or Lonie.
So, I am still unable to view the actual record. And I have a sneaking suspicion that it doesn’t list his parents names at all, including Amanda. What I did find, though, was a World War II draft registration card. Ed was 11 days shy of his 62nd birthday.
(all three images came from www.familysearch.org)
One of the first things I noticed when I saw this draft record was that the contact person listed is Pauline Summers, residing at the same address as Ed. This point will come up again at the end.
This is the back of the registration card.
Ok, so this is a screenshot of the death index. You can see that he is listed here as widowed. Ed’s wife, Lassie Burton Bellar, had passed on December 9, 1941, just 4 months and 14 days prior to his signing the registration. His children I am aware of:
Leon Edward Summers, Jr (1903-1959)
Lassie Ophelia Summers (1906-1973)
Robert Emmanuel Summers (1908-1999)
(Eva) Clarice Summers (1911-1912)
Addie Mae Summers (1914-?)
Thomas Ensor Summers (1918-1983)
Raymond Parker Summers (1921-1989)
So who is Pauline? Well, I had to do a little digging around, but I finally found a page of cemetery transcriptions for Highland Cemetery in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky. She is listed as the wife of Robert Emmanuel Summers: Pauline P. Summers (1908-1994). I have not yet found a marriage record. I’m thinking that perhaps he was in the military (no, I haven’t found his military cards yet). I haven’t done much research on this line of the Summers family, meaning Leon Edward “Ed” Summers, Sr. I am working on it, however.
As an aside, something I noticed today when I was attempting for find why Pauline would have been a contact (instead of Ed’s kids, I mean) was a new category on Fold3:
Notice that two of the sub-categories are free!
