Individual Details
Ezra C Query
(May 24, 1890 - Mar 18, 1941)
BIOGRAPHY: While living in Cloverdale, Indiana (sometime before 1984) , son Arth ur C wrote these words about his father and mother: "Ezra C . Query, born 24 Ma y 1890, married Mellie Lucille Comer on 27 March 1 912. She was the daughter of Emery Comer who was a farmer in Wester n Owen County. Mellie (Comer) Query bec ame a member of the Methodis t Church at Cataract, Indiana and was active in the Ladies Aid. Sh e was, also, active in home gardening. When the Monon railroad buil t a branch line to the coal strip mines, Ezra applied early and afte r a ti me became a section foreman. He worked on the railroad almos t all of his life. He, however, became a Baptist rather than a Metho dist. Ezra liked to hunt sq uirrels. Ezra Query bought a small plac e located near to the Monon tracks abou t one half mile south of Catar act, Indiana. This became his home place. He di ed at the Greencastl e Hospital on 18 March 1941 and his wife Mellie died at the same hosp ital on 13 March 1957. Both are buried at Buckskin (now Mt. Pleasan t ). Ezra and Mellie Query had two sons, Arthur Clyde, born 4 May 191 8 and Russe ll Maurice, Born 23 March 1920." Both of these children w ere childless.
Events
Families
Spouse | Mellie Lucille Comer (1891 - 1957) |
Child | Arthur Clyde Query (1918 - ) |
Child | Russell Maurice Query (1920 - 1968) |
Father | Thomas Willard Miles Query (1865 - 1937) |
Mother | Nancy Jane Stevens (1872 - 1921) |
Sibling | Roy Estus Query (1893 - 1965) |
Sibling | Ernest Estil Query (1896 - 1958) |
Sibling | Ada Mae Query (1901 - 1919) |
Sibling | John Lee Query (1904 - 1963) |
Sibling | Kenneth E Query (1910 - 1976) |
Endnotes
1. Marriage Record, Owen County, Book 36, Page 374.
2. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Jennings Township, Owen County Indiana.