Documentation - John Elmer Vining

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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.”