Notes for: Zona Ellen Merritt

1920 Census, Okmulgee Co, Oklahoma (Severs Township), enumerated on Jan 13 1920:
M. C. Wells, 39, rig builder in oil field; wife Zona, 37; son Wayne, 7; dau Winnie, 7; son Frank, 5; dau Lucile, 3y 5m; son Edward, 1y 4m. All born in West Virginia except for Edward, born in Oklahoma.
NOTE: Edward's birthplace is given in the 1930 Census as Arkansas, and his Social Security record shows it as Little Rock, Arkansas.

1930 Census, Gloucester Co, NJ (City of Jefferson), enumerated on Apr 8 1930:
McCllen Wells, 49, b. WVa, truck farmer; wife Zona, 49, b. WVa; son Wayne, 18, b. WVa, single, farmer's helper; dau Winifred, 18, b. WVa, single, farmer's helper; son Frank, 15, b. WVa; dau Lucille, 13, b. WVa; son Edward, 11, b. Arkansas; son Earnest, 7, b. WVa; boarder John House-holder, 24, b. Virginia, single, farm laborer; father (sic) Franklin E. Dare, 58, b. NJ, single, farmer.

1940 Census, Kanawha Co, WV (Loudon District), enumerated on Apr 23 1940 in South East Charleston:
Mike Wells, 59, b. WVa, stevedore for transit company; wife Zona, 59, b. WVa; son Ed, 21, b. Arkansas, single, construction worker; son Ernest, 17, b. WVa, farm worker. The 1935 residence of all was rural Gloucester County, New Jersey.