James Elmos was the second of nine children of Thomas Yarborough (1852-1895) and Winifred (Winnie) Pearson (1858-1937). Careless genealogy on the Ancestry site has created many mistakes about his life. This sketch will clear up some of those. James is elusive. As the caption of the attached image says, the photo is also probably not that of James Elmos, but rather of his brother Mahlon Pearson.
James married Mariah (Marie) Adams (about 1880 - after 1940). She is a daughter of Asa and Jane Newsome Adams but is confused in some family trees with her sister Martha Susan (Mattie) Adams Yarborough, the wife of Lemuel Lewis Yarborough. (Lemuel Lewis and James Elmos Yarborough were first cousins.)
The couple had five children: Bessie Mae (1897-1981), Vivia D. (1899-1916), Gladys (1900-before 1910), Eva B. (1902-before 1910), and Alphonse (1904-1962). We have the obituary and death notice for Vivia, who died of typhoid at age 16. Several family trees also mistakenly add two children to this list: Katherine Marcella and Emmett Newport, who were actually the children of John Elijah and Mamie E. Corcoran Yarborough.
In 1900 James farmed in St. Helena Parish LA. The couple had their first two daughters and were expecting the third. Some family trees erroneously associate them, in the 1910 census, with "J. E. and Mamie Yarborough, children Marcelle and Newport" who are in Bogalusa LA that year. But that family is John Elijah and Mamie Corcoran Yarborough's, not James Elmos and Marie's.
James died in 1917. In 1920, his son Alphonse was living with his grandmother, uncle James Harvey and his wife Odelia, and aunt Lonie and her daughter Willie in Kentwood. His daughter Bessie Mae was married to William Bunyan (Bonnie) Jackson and living in Leakesville, Mississippi. Their third (of five) children was born a month before James' death. His son Alphonse was only 13 when his father died; in 1924, he married Mable V. Davis and the couple had one child, a son.
James Elmos died at his sister Lonie's home in Kentwood, LA and was buried in Liverpool LA in the graveyard of Day's Memorial Methodist Church, as his obituary states. Information about his death and burial also appears in notes made by his mother, Winnie Pearson Yarborough.
James married Mariah (Marie) Adams (about 1880 - after 1940). She is a daughter of Asa and Jane Newsome Adams but is confused in some family trees with her sister Martha Susan (Mattie) Adams Yarborough, the wife of Lemuel Lewis Yarborough. (Lemuel Lewis and James Elmos Yarborough were first cousins.)
The couple had five children: Bessie Mae (1897-1981), Vivia D. (1899-1916), Gladys (1900-before 1910), Eva B. (1902-before 1910), and Alphonse (1904-1962). We have the obituary and death notice for Vivia, who died of typhoid at age 16. Several family trees also mistakenly add two children to this list: Katherine Marcella and Emmett Newport, who were actually the children of John Elijah and Mamie E. Corcoran Yarborough.
In 1900 James farmed in St. Helena Parish LA. The couple had their first two daughters and were expecting the third. Some family trees erroneously associate them, in the 1910 census, with "J. E. and Mamie Yarborough, children Marcelle and Newport" who are in Bogalusa LA that year. But that family is John Elijah and Mamie Corcoran Yarborough's, not James Elmos and Marie's.
James died in 1917. In 1920, his son Alphonse was living with his grandmother, uncle James Harvey and his wife Odelia, and aunt Lonie and her daughter Willie in Kentwood. His daughter Bessie Mae was married to William Bunyan (Bonnie) Jackson and living in Leakesville, Mississippi. Their third (of five) children was born a month before James' death. His son Alphonse was only 13 when his father died; in 1924, he married Mable V. Davis and the couple had one child, a son.
James Elmos died at his sister Lonie's home in Kentwood, LA and was buried in Liverpool LA in the graveyard of Day's Memorial Methodist Church, as his obituary states. Information about his death and burial also appears in notes made by his mother, Winnie Pearson Yarborough.
James Elmos was the second of nine children of Thomas Yarborough (1852-1895) and Winifred (Winnie) Pearson (1858-1937). Careless genealogy on the Ancestry site has created many mistakes about his life. This sketch will clear up some of those. James is elusive. As the caption of the attached image says, the photo is also probably not that of James Elmos, but rather of his brother Mahlon Pearson.
James married Mariah (Marie) Adams (about 1880 - after 1940). She is a daughter of Asa and Jane Newsome Adams but is confused in some family trees with her sister Martha Susan (Mattie) Adams Yarborough, the wife of Lemuel Lewis Yarborough. (Lemuel Lewis and James Elmos Yarborough were first cousins.)
The couple had five children: Bessie Mae (1897-1981), Vivia D. (1899-1916), Gladys (1900-before 1910), Eva B. (1902-before 1910), and Alphonse (1904-1962). We have the obituary and death notice for Vivia, who died of typhoid at age 16. Several family trees also mistakenly add two children to this list: Katherine Marcella and Emmett Newport, who were actually the children of John Elijah and Mamie E. Corcoran Yarborough.
In 1900 James farmed in St. Helena Parish LA. The couple had their first two daughters and were expecting the third. Some family trees erroneously associate them, in the 1910 census, with "J. E. and Mamie Yarborough, children Marcelle and Newport" who are in Bogalusa LA that year. But that family is John Elijah and Mamie Corcoran Yarborough's, not James Elmos and Marie's.
James died in 1917. In 1920, his son Alphonse was living with his grandmother, uncle James Harvey and his wife Odelia, and aunt Lonie and her daughter Willie in Kentwood. His daughter Bessie Mae was married to William Bunyan (Bonnie) Jackson and living in Leakesville, Mississippi. Their third (of five) children was born a month before James' death. His son Alphonse was only 13 when his father died; in 1924, he married Mable V. Davis and the couple had one child, a son.
James Elmos died at his sister Lonie's home in Kentwood, LA and was buried in Liverpool LA in the graveyard of Day's Memorial Methodist Church, as his obituary states. Information about his death and burial also appears in notes made by his mother, Winnie Pearson Yarborough.
James married Mariah (Marie) Adams (about 1880 - after 1940). She is a daughter of Asa and Jane Newsome Adams but is confused in some family trees with her sister Martha Susan (Mattie) Adams Yarborough, the wife of Lemuel Lewis Yarborough. (Lemuel Lewis and James Elmos Yarborough were first cousins.)
The couple had five children: Bessie Mae (1897-1981), Vivia D. (1899-1916), Gladys (1900-before 1910), Eva B. (1902-before 1910), and Alphonse (1904-1962). We have the obituary and death notice for Vivia, who died of typhoid at age 16. Several family trees also mistakenly add two children to this list: Katherine Marcella and Emmett Newport, who were actually the children of John Elijah and Mamie E. Corcoran Yarborough.
In 1900 James farmed in St. Helena Parish LA. The couple had their first two daughters and were expecting the third. Some family trees erroneously associate them, in the 1910 census, with "J. E. and Mamie Yarborough, children Marcelle and Newport" who are in Bogalusa LA that year. But that family is John Elijah and Mamie Corcoran Yarborough's, not James Elmos and Marie's.
James died in 1917. In 1920, his son Alphonse was living with his grandmother, uncle James Harvey and his wife Odelia, and aunt Lonie and her daughter Willie in Kentwood. His daughter Bessie Mae was married to William Bunyan (Bonnie) Jackson and living in Leakesville, Mississippi. Their third (of five) children was born a month before James' death. His son Alphonse was only 13 when his father died; in 1924, he married Mable V. Davis and the couple had one child, a son.
James Elmos died at his sister Lonie's home in Kentwood, LA and was buried in Liverpool LA in the graveyard of Day's Memorial Methodist Church, as his obituary states. Information about his death and burial also appears in notes made by his mother, Winnie Pearson Yarborough.
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