Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameBlanche Melvina Wells
Birth2 Nov 1874, Monmouth, Warren Co, IL
Census21 Jun 1900, Monmouth, Warren Co, IL
Memoroll#350, pg 23
Census27 Jan 1920, Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA
Memoroll#1660, pg 23
Census3 Apr 1930, Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA
Memoroll#2160, pg 2
Census10 May 1940, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Memoroll#3662, pg 2
Census5 Apr 1950, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Memoroll#3629, pg 14
Death19 Apr 1950, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Burial21 Apr 1950, Homewood Cem, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
MemoSection: 3 Lot: 42 Grave: 3
FatherRobert Laughlin Wells (1845-1923)
MotherMelvina Delcina Smith (1848-1923)
Misc. Notes
Listed as a servant (23) for the Sexton family in Monmouth IL in 1900.
Married Alfred C. Clark on 16 Sept 1903 in Warren Co, IL; George A. Kelso, and Bert Key.
Married George Anderson Kelso on 12 Mar 1918 in Canonsburg, PA,
Listed as Blanche M. Kelso (44, IL), wife of George A. Kelso (51, PA) an engineer for the gas company in Canonsburg, PA in 1920 and 1930. By 1930 he was working as a store clerk in the steel mill, and she was listed as first married at age 27, he at 50.
George Anderson Kelso (19 Feb 1868, Cecil Twp) died 30 Sept 1933 in Venice Twp, Washington Co, PA.
Blanche of Pittsburg then married Orlando “Bert” Key (1870-1945) on Feb 1st, 1937 in Enid, OK. They visited friends and relatives in Sidney, Shelby Co, OH on their honeymoon.
Blanche is then listed in the 1940 as married but alone and having lived in Enid, OK in 1935.
Then in the 1950 Pittsburg census as Blanche M. Key, widowed
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