Documentation for John Elmer Vining - Florence M. Payne


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Florence M. (Payne) Vining:





Census Data

  1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940
John Elmer Vining ? 36 [47?] [57?] 67 76
Florence M. (Payne) Vining ? 34 45 54 65 74
    Alexander Vining ? 17 married and living in separate household
    William H. Vining ? 15 24 married and living in separate household 44 living in separate household
    Myrtle J. Vining 9 married and living in separate household
    Maude Vining 7 17 [living? in separate household]
    Joseph A. Vining 5 living in separate household
[see note below]
    Ethel I. Vining 3 13 22
[see note below]		 living in separate household
    Elmer E. Vining 9 m. 10 21 30 40
[see note below]
    George Vining 6 16 married and living in separate household
    Anna M. Vining 4 14 married and living in separate household


1900 Adams Township, Allen County, Indiana - dwelling 356, family 373:



1910 Fort Wayne (ward 5), Allen County, Indiana - dwelling 314, family 315. In 1910, Joseph A. Vining was living in the household of Alexander Vining, his oldest brother.



1920 Fort Wayne (ward 8), Allen County, Indiana - dwelling 199, family 202. By 1920, Ethel I. Vining was married, and she and husband and children were living in the household of her parents.



1930 Fort Wayne (ward 8), Allen County, Indiana - dwelling 20, family 22. Also living in this household in 1930 was James Vining (18 y., b. Indiana), a grandson of John Elmer Vining and Florence M. (Payne) Vining.



1940 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. By 1940, Elmer E Vining was married, and he and his wife were living with his parents.





Death Data

Headstone for John Elmer Vining and Florence M. (Payne) Vining, in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana (from Find A Grave):





Myrtle J. (Vining) McNeal

Oliver McNeal and Myrtle J. (Vining) McNeal:
   


In 1937, Myrtle’s niece Florence (Vining) Smith, a daughter of Myrtle’s brother William H. Vining, died the same day she gave birth to David V. Smith. Myrtle and husband Oliver raised this baby. David’s wife says that “[s]he was a good mom to David.”