Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJames W. Wells 
Birth20 Aug 1899, Fayette Co, PA
Census1920, Jefferson Twp, Fayette Co, PA
Memoroll #1568, pg 258
Census18 Apr 1930, Jefferson Twp, Fayette Co, PA
Memoroll#2040, pg 19
Death19 May 1938, Washington, Washington Co, PA
BurialRedstone Cem, Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
OccupationCarpenter
FatherAlva Allen Wells (1868-1944)
MotherMary Jane Coulter (1873-1932)
Misc. Notes
Single and living with his parents in 1920 and 1930. James lived to adulthood and was married to Ruth Brown. They had no children, and lived in Brownsville.
He was killed when a building he was helping to construct fell on him. Elmer Alan Guseman says he remembered James dying when he was 6 or 7. He was the only child not named in his father's will to inherit the family homestead in 1944.
He was killed when a building he was helping to construct fell on him. Elmer Alan Guseman says he remembered James dying when he was 6 or 7. He was the only child not named in his father's will to inherit the family homestead in 1944.
Spouses
Birth23 Mar 1893, Perry Twp, Fayette Co, PA
Death24 Oct 1956, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
MemoMercy Hospital
BurialRedstone Cem, Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
Occupationschool teacher
Misc. Notes
Listed in 1930 census with her parents, Charles S. Brown and Caroline Cope Taggart, as a public school teacher (37, PA). Both her parents were born in Pennsylvania.
Listed in 1940 as widowed (46, PA) and living alone, not working. It says she had 2 yrs of college, was married at age 38, and had no children.
Listed in 1940 as widowed (46, PA) and living alone, not working. It says she had 2 yrs of college, was married at age 38, and had no children.
Marriage1932
No Children