Ernest Bates Loman

1897-1968 · McClellan Township IL → Benton IL → Tovey IL → Morrisonville IL

Born 1897, McClellan Twp, Jefferson Co

Died 1968

Father: John Washington Loman

Mother: Eliza Ellen Hicks

Children include LaDonna

Born November 21, 1897 in McClellan Township, Jefferson County, Illinois, son of John Washington Loman and Eliza Hicks. His birth record settles the middle name the later papers mangled into Batist, Batise, and Bateze: it was Bates. The family moved to Benton in the Franklin County coal field, where the 1920 census finds him at twenty-two, newly married to a first wife written as Ima, living with his parents. That marriage produced John Edward and Everett John. He then married Waunita Dixon, twenty-one years his junior, from another Franklin County family, and the couple followed the coal north to Tovey in Christian County, where his 1942 draft card was filed. Ernest Jr., Nancy, Carol, and LaDonna followed. The 1940 census has the family in South Fork Township, the 1950 census at Morrisonville. He was still working at the Freeman Crown Mine at Farmersville when he died at home on December 3, 1968, at seventy-one, and is buried at Morrisonville City Cemetery.

Parents

Eliza Ellen Hicks (1883-1967)

John Washington Loman 1878-1920

Children

LaDonna Grace Loman (1952-2011)

Sources

Mt. Vernon Register, Mount Vernon, Illinois, 4 December 1968, clipping on Find a Grave, memorial 101048805 (Ernest B. Loman).

Illinois Births and Christenings; 1900, 1910, 1920, 1940 and 1950 censuses; World War II draft registration, 1942; Find A Grave memorial 101048805; Mt. Vernon Register, 4 December 1968; obituary in the Springfield paper, 4 December 1968

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