Ernest Lee Connors Sr. (1901-1974)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Veda Nadine Carson Ernest Lee Connors Jr.+ Ernest Lee Connors Sr. Born: 30 Jan 1901, Fort Fairfield, ME 1 Partnership (1): Veda Nadine Carson Died: 8 Jun 1974, Togus, ME at age 73 Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Fort Fairfield, ME    FamilySearch ID: GMJR-SD8. Find a Grave ID: 146960371.   Events • Military Enlistment: U.S. Army, 11 Jul 1919. • Census, 21 Jan 1920, Camp Meade, MD. • Military Discharge: U.S. Army, 10 Jul 1922. • Census, 22 Apr 1930, Fort Fairfield, ME. 2 • Census, 2 Apr 1940, Fort Fairfield, ME. 3 • Census, 1 Apr 1950, Fort Fairfield, ME. 4 Ernest was renting a room. • Obituary: Bangor Daily News, 10 Jun 1974, Bangor, ME. FORT FAIRFIELD -- Ernest L. Connors, 73, died June 8 at the Veterans Hospital in Togus. He was born in Fort Fairfield Jan. 30, 1901, son of William and Rhoda (Nichols) Connors. He was a veteran of World War I, a retired brick and mason contractor. He is survived by one granddaughter, Tina Connors; one grandson, Ernest Lee Connors III, both of Bridgewater; several cousins. Friends may call at the Dorsey Funeral Home Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Dorsey Fueneral Home Chapel, the Rev. Bernard Brown of the Wesleyan Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in the family lot in Riverside Cemetery. Ernest had a relationship with Veda Nadine Carson, daughter of Charles Albert Carson and Sylvia Ethel Burgess. (Veda Nadine Carson was born on 9 Feb 1920 in Limestone, ME 5 and died on 6 Jan 1997 in Coopers Mills, ME 6.)

1 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, Ernest Lee Connors; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 2 Feb 2023).

2 1930 U.S. census, Aroostook, Maine, population schedule, Fort Fairfield, enumeration district (ED) 0024, sheet 18A, p. 35, dwelling 288, family 369, Benj. F. Ames; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 29 Jan 2023); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626.

3 1940 U.S. census, Aroostook, Maine, population schedule, Fort Fairfield, enumeration district (ED) 2-32A, sheet 1A, p. 1, household 5, Benjamin Ames; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 29 Jan 2023); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T627, roll m-t0627-01471.

4 1950 U.S. census, Aroostook, Maine, Fort Fairfield, enumeration district (ED) 2-36, sheet 3, p. 4, household 22, Ernest L. Connors; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 29 Jan 2023); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T628, roll 607.

5 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, Veda Nadine Carson; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 16 Oct 2011).

6 State of Maine Department of Human Services, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1997," database, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 19 Oct 2011), entry for Veda Nadine Carson's 1997 death.