Family: Elvin Elliot Best / Mary Bullock (F2125)

• Father | Male Elvin Elliot Best

  
  

  Born	24 Jul 1850	Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Died	22 Nov 1935	Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Buried		"County Home" Cemetery
  Married	6 Aug 1874  [1, 2]	Madison County, Illinois, USA  [1, 2]
  Divorced	Between 1890-1897  [3, 4]
  Father	Joseph Best | F1547 Group Sheet
  Mother	Susan M. Walker | F1547 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Mary Bullock

  
  

  Born	17 Sep 1858	Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Died	3 Nov 1921
  Buried
  Other Spouse	Charles E. Walker | F2251
  Married	31 Aug 1897	Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Father	John S. Bullock | F2123 Group Sheet
  Mother	Arcadia Baird | F2123 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Thomas Best

  
  

  Born	Abt 1878
  Died	9 Apr 1947	Wood River, Madison County, Illinois, USA
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Male Clarence Best

  
  

  Born	Abt 1883
  Died
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Male + August Leslie "Les" Best

  
  

  Born	21 Apr 1886	South Dakota, USA
  Died	25 Apr 1942	Cahokia, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Buried		Mt. Olive, Cahokia township, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Spouse	Annie Augusta Maria Schultz | F2250
  Married	About 1909

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Howard Best

  
  

  Born	Abt 1889	Illinois, USA
  Died	9 Jun 1946	Cook County, Illinois, USA
  Buried
  Spouse	Ethel ? | F2249
  Married

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Arcadia Best

  
  

  Born
  Died
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Actually the license date--not necessarily the marriage date.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4327] Elmer Best (elb8652@yahoo.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 28 May 2014, subject “Best/Culbertson.” Detailing his line of descent from Susan M. Walker and Joseph Best of Macoupin County, Illinois. [S4709] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 9 February 2015), entry for Elvin E. Best-Mary A. Bulluck, Madison County, 6 August 1874; citing vol. 7: 23, license no. 495, Edwardsville. [S4715] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 9 February 2015), entry for Charles E. Walker-Mrs. Mary A. (Bullock) Best, Macoupin County (1897); citing Macoupin County marriages, Book 2: 258, license no. 5957. . [S4714] 1900 U.S. census, Morgan County, Illinois, population schedule, Township 14 Range 9, enumeration district (ED) 83, sheet 3B, p 65 (stamped, verso), dwelling 51, family 52, Thomas J. Wash household, for Elvin E. Best, servant; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 9 February 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 331.