NameElizabeth Neola Shannon 
Birth4-18-1902, Wellsville, KS
Death8-30-1983 Age: 81
BurialWellsville, KS
Spouses
Birth5-13-1894, Wellsville, KS
Death5-5-1946, Wadsworth, KS Age: 51
BurialWellsville, KS
Marriage4-19-1920, Olathe, KS
Jerome Edwin (1926-1989)
Keith Lyle (1932-1989)
Rex Lynn
Birth9-29-1888, Wayne County, Iowa
Death5-3-1968 Age: 79
BurialBalwin City, KS
Marriage6-14-1949, Olathe, KS
Notes for Elizabeth Neola Shannon
She attended Vespertine and Wellsville High School. After the death of James Elvas in 1946 Elizabeth raised four children as a single parent working for Wellsville’s Dr. Naylor as a housekeeper and caring for an ailing Mrs. Naylor. She was later employed at the Sunflower Ordnance Plant in DeSota, KS for 12 years.
Notes for James Elvas (Spouse 1)
Private, U.S. Army, 329th Infantry, 83rd Division, World War I, served in Europe.
Oil field worker around Wellsville adn McLouth, Kansas.
Member of the Wellsville Methodist Church.