Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameElmer Colvin Wells 
Birth24 Oct 1920, Shelbyville, Shelby Co, IN
Census7 Apr 1930, Greensburg, Decatur Co, IN
Memoroll#580, pg 1
Census13 Apr 1940, Fort Knox, Hardin Co, KY
Memoroll#1312, pg 49
Census14 Apr 1950, VA Hospital, Grant Co, IN
Memoroll#3911, pg 55
Death1 Jul 1977, Richmond, Wayne Co, IN
Burial5 Jul 1977, Washington Park North Cem, Indianapolis, IN
FatherRichard Wells (1870-<1937)
MotherBertha Mae Herron (1885-1972)
Never married
Misc. Notes
Listed as Elmer Land (8) with his mother and step-father in 1930.
He is listed in Fort Knox for the 1940 census, as private in the Army’s 19th Field Artillery.
Enrolled as Elmer C. Wells in the Air Corps at Camp Atterbury, Columbus on 29 Jul 1941 with "Enlistment for Hawaiian Department" At the time, it said he was living in Marion Co, IN. Released 30 Aug 1945
He is listed in the 1950 census as a patient in the VA Hospital, Grant Co, IN. Listed as never married, and in the psychotic ward.
Was apparently in the Veterans Hospital at Marion, IN in 1972 when his mother died.
[Obituary] Indianapolis News
Services for Elmer C. Wells, 56, 3140 Cossell Drive, a disabled World War II Army veteran, will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Flanner and Buchanan Speedway Mortuary. Wells died Friday at home. He was a native of Shelbyville and a four-yeear resident of Indianapolis. Survivors - half-brothers Charles Herron, Virgil Land; half-sister Edith Rose.
He is listed in Fort Knox for the 1940 census, as private in the Army’s 19th Field Artillery.
Enrolled as Elmer C. Wells in the Air Corps at Camp Atterbury, Columbus on 29 Jul 1941 with "Enlistment for Hawaiian Department" At the time, it said he was living in Marion Co, IN. Released 30 Aug 1945
He is listed in the 1950 census as a patient in the VA Hospital, Grant Co, IN. Listed as never married, and in the psychotic ward.
Was apparently in the Veterans Hospital at Marion, IN in 1972 when his mother died.
[Obituary] Indianapolis News
Services for Elmer C. Wells, 56, 3140 Cossell Drive, a disabled World War II Army veteran, will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Flanner and Buchanan Speedway Mortuary. Wells died Friday at home. He was a native of Shelbyville and a four-yeear resident of Indianapolis. Survivors - half-brothers Charles Herron, Virgil Land; half-sister Edith Rose.