Alvah Wessley McElhiney

Alvah Wessley McElhiney

• Father: Byron Lytton McElhiney b. 27 March 1869
• Mother: Iphigenia Williams b. April 1871

• Alvah Wessley McElhiney was born on 26 February 1891 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
• He married Delphia Daggett, daughter of Dorlin Daggett and Irene Stewart, on 14 August 1913 in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa.
• He married Ola May McDaniel, daughter of Charles E. McDaniel and Sarah Josephine Carmen, circa 1916.
• Alvah Wessley McElhiney registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Montgomery County, Iowa, while married and living in Henderson, employed farming in Lincoln Township by Will Jones. He reports having served as a private in the Iowa Infantry for one year and seven months.
• Alvah Wessley McElhiney appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Osswatamie, Miami County, Kansas, enumerated as the divorced brother-in-law of his widowed sister-in-law Grace McElhiney and her five children.
• Alvah Wessley McElhiney appeared in the 1949 Grand Junction, Colorado, City Directory at 808 Pitkin employed by the Board of Education as a custodian..
• He married Mary H. (?) circa 1950.
• Mary H. (?) (and Alvah Wessley McElhiney) appeared in the 1951 Grand Junction, Colorado, City Directory at North 7th Street with Mary H., employed as custodian at Tope Elementary School..
• Alvah Wessley McElhiney died in January 1969 at age 77 in Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado.
• He was interred at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado.

• Last Edited: 27 Feb 2012