Elmo Willis Enix
1881 - 1955 (74 years)-
Name Elmo Willis Enix Birth 5 May 1881 Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Census 1900 Lewis County, Kentucky Census 1920 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Census 1930 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Census 1940 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Death 5 Sep 1955 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas [3, 4, 5] Burial Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas [3] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108700483/elmo-willis-enix
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Person ID I1005 Hedges Last Modified 10 May 2023
Father Joseph Buchanan Enix, b. 6 Aug 1856, Carter County, Kentucky d. 25 Dec 1927, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky (Age 71 years) Mother Indiana Louisa "Lou" Hedges, b. 20 Aug 1858, Rowan County, Kentucky d. 15 Apr 1883, Carter County, Kentucky (Age 24 years) Marriage 26 Mar 1879 Rowan County, Kentucky [1] Family ID F228 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ethel Gertrude Bibb, b. 8 Nov 1894, Texas d. 14 Feb 1972, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas (Age 77 years) Children + 1. Lorena Elizabeth Enix, b. 25 Oct 1918, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas d. 19 Mar 2001, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas (Age 82 years)+ 2. Elsie Marie Enix, b. 5 May 1921, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas d. 22 Aug 2005, Tyler, Smith County, Texas (Age 84 years)+ 3. Elmo Willis Enix, b. 24 Aug 1925, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas d. 5 Feb 1993, Chandler, Henderson County, Texas (Age 67 years)4. Tollie Eugene Enix, b. 9 Jun 1929, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas d. 12 Jul 2001, Somervell County, Texas (Age 72 years)Family ID F11 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Oct 2021
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Birth - 5 May 1881 - Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 
Census - 1900 - Lewis County, Kentucky 
Census - 1920 - Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Census - 1930 - Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Census - 1940 - Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Death - 5 Sep 1955 - Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 
Burial - - Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos Enix, Elmo Willis
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Notes - MHR note: Elmo disappeared 11 August 1902, Fort Douglas, Utah. He is still listed by the Army as a deserter, but probably had been killed in a fight. None of the family ever heard of him again. According to Ida Cronkhite, Elmo had blue eyes. His parents brought him to Illinois but decided "Buck's" health was better in Kentucky and returned to Carter County. Lou was having daily chills the three or four weeks they stayed at P.T. Hedges.
LKH note: There is an Elmo W. Enix in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 US census. Information matches the Elmo entered here.
[1, 6] - Elmo Willis Enix, Sr., Retired Cook, Dies at 78.
Elmo Willis Enix, Sr., 78, resident here since 1917, died Monday at his home, 2904 N.W. 29th, after a long illness.
Enix, who was born in Louisville, Ky. was a retired cook. He had worked for the old Maverick Café at the stockyards.
He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.
Survivors are his wife, two sons, Tyler Eugene Enix and Elmo Willis Enix Jr., all of Fort Worth; two daughters, Mrs. Lorena Parham of Fort Worth and Mrs. Marie Parham of Tyler, and 12 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Shannon’s.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas. Tuesday, 6 September 1955.
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- MHR note: Elmo disappeared 11 August 1902, Fort Douglas, Utah. He is still listed by the Army as a deserter, but probably had been killed in a fight. None of the family ever heard of him again. According to Ida Cronkhite, Elmo had blue eyes. His parents brought him to Illinois but decided "Buck's" health was better in Kentucky and returned to Carter County. Lou was having daily chills the three or four weeks they stayed at P.T. Hedges.
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