Elroy Louis Riess^[1]

1895 - 1962  (66 years)

• Name	Elroy Louis Riess
  Born	16 Sep 1895	Missouri, United States
  Died	10 Mar 1962  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I165	tree1
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Otto W. Riess,   b. Jun 1852, Pennsylvania, United States ,   d. 24 Sep 1905, St. Louis, City, Missouri, United States  (Age ~ 53 years)
  Mother	Karoline Bertha Emilie Oehns,   b. 10 Oct 1858, Deutschland ,   d. 24 May 1936, St. Louis, City, Missouri, United States  (Age 77 years)
  Married	1881
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Minerva McKinney,   b. 7 Jan 1892, Gasconade, Missouri, United States ,   d. 15 Nov 1982, St. Louis, City, Missouri, United States  (Age 90 years)  [3]
  Married	20 Feb 1922	Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2011
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jessie Adele Schumacher,   b. Abt 1897, Missouri, United States ,   d. 18 Feb 1968, Missouri, United States  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Census	1940	St. Louis, City, Missouri, United States
  	Riess, Elroy, Head, 45, M, MO, Same Place, Custiodian board of education Riess, Jessie, Wife, 43, MO, Same Place
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2014
  Family ID	F566	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Death Certificate of Bertha Ohens Riess
  		Death Certificate, Elroy L Riess

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] Illinois Marriage Certificates - Various. This certifies that Elroy Louis Riess of St. Louis, State of Missouri, and Sarah Clemons of St. Louis, State of Missouri, were united in Holy Matrimony at Alton, According to the Ordinance of God and the Laws of the State of Illinois. on the 20th day of February in the year of OUR LORD One Thousand Nine Hundred twenty two. Witnesses Geo. E. King, Mary Lessner [unintelligible] Lessner?, Justice of the Peace Certificate provided by David Wright, a descendant of Sarah. Elroy and Sarah were married only briefly. [S22] Obituary - Various, St. Louis Public Library obituary search (Reliability: 1). St. Louis obituaries matching name and date criteria Currently, this obituary index contains names from the St. Louis Post Dispatch for the years 1880-1930, 1942-1945, 1960-1969, and 1992-2009. We continue to load other years and sources. Riess, Elroy L. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1962 3/11 p1D, Burial permit 3/14 p9A http://www.slpl.org/slpl/gateways/article240117800.asp?namefield3=1962&namefield1=Riess,%20Elroy%20L. [S45] Ancestry.com - subscriber-contributed trees, from David Wright. David Wright's research indicates that Elroy L. Riess was the fifth husband of Sarah M McKinney; her other husbands were Charles Clemens, Harry Gibson, Henry Mertz, George Smith, and she has a number of descendants through Clemens and Smith.