John Paul Fern
M, #153, b. 2 March 1899, d. 6 February 1963
John Paul Fern|b. 2 Mar 1899\nd. 6 Feb 1963|p64.htm|James E Fern|b. 21 Sep 1865\nd. 15 Apr 1958|p63.htm|Mary Ellen McCormick|b. 24 Apr 1874\nd. 13 Jan 1958|p50.htm|John Fern Sr|b. May 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p115.htm|Mary Rice|b. Apr 1834\nd. 6 Dec 1906|p141.htm|Bernard McCormick|b. c 1830\nd. c 1879|p5.htm|Ellen O'Hara|b. 17 Mar 1831\nd. 3 Nov 1917|p6.htm|
John Paul Fern was born on 2 March 1899 at Scammon, Cherokee County, Kansas. He was the son of James E Fern and Mary Ellen McCormick.1 The 1900 US Census listed John Paul Fern along with Mary Ellen McCormick in the household of James E Fern in Mineral Twp, Scammon, Cherokee County, Kansas.2
Mother said that John resisted a little his school work. She said her father said he should get out and work if he did not want to study. He got little understanding at home and went into the mines. It was he who lived on with them, caring for them into old age. After their deaths he went a little 'crazy' and did not live that long.3
John was enumerated with James E Fern on the census of 22 March 1920 at Ross Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, as John Fern. He is a 20 year old single white male born in Kansas. His father was born at sea and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. He is miner in a coal mine.4
John was enumerated with James E Fern on the census of 12 April 1930 at Scammon, Cherokee County, Kansas, as JohnFern. He is a single white male 31 years old and was born in Kansas. His father was born at sea and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. He works in a coal mine and is a gas man.5
John Paul Fern died on 6 February 1963 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, at age 63.6,7 .8
Edward J. Fern writes: To be useful to surviving Ferns, it may be worthwhile to point out that John passed as a result of a ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, a condition that was surgically repaired in his brothers, James and Joseph, and that also afflicts at least one of James' sons, yours truly. Fortunately, sonography now permits monitoring the growth of this type of aneurysm and surgical intervention is now achieved by insertion of a stint rather than the much more invasive earlier technique that nearly killed my father.7
Mother said that John resisted a little his school work. She said her father said he should get out and work if he did not want to study. He got little understanding at home and went into the mines. It was he who lived on with them, caring for them into old age. After their deaths he went a little 'crazy' and did not live that long.3
John was enumerated with James E Fern on the census of 22 March 1920 at Ross Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, as John Fern. He is a 20 year old single white male born in Kansas. His father was born at sea and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. He is miner in a coal mine.4
John was enumerated with James E Fern on the census of 12 April 1930 at Scammon, Cherokee County, Kansas, as JohnFern. He is a single white male 31 years old and was born in Kansas. His father was born at sea and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. He works in a coal mine and is a gas man.5
John Paul Fern died on 6 February 1963 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, at age 63.6,7 .8
Edward J. Fern writes: To be useful to surviving Ferns, it may be worthwhile to point out that John passed as a result of a ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, a condition that was surgically repaired in his brothers, James and Joseph, and that also afflicts at least one of James' sons, yours truly. Fortunately, sonography now permits monitoring the growth of this type of aneurysm and surgical intervention is now achieved by insertion of a stint rather than the much more invasive earlier technique that nearly killed my father.7
Citations
- [S10] Donald Coonrod, "Coonrod Papers", These notes are contained in FGS's and interliner notes to the "Rice report", Family Group Sheet (James E. Fern).
- [S1] 1900, U.S. Census, Cherokee County, Kansas, Population Schedule, Mineral Twp ED 17, Sh 17.
- [S136] Donald Coonrod, "The McCormack, O'Hara, Fern, Rice, and Ryan Families", Two papers prepared in 1990-91 based on Donald Coonrod's research and conversations with his mother, Mary Elizabeth Fern Coonrod., p. 5.
- [S323] Ancestry website, online www.ancestry.com, Year: 1920;Census Place: Ross, Cherokee, Kansas; Roll: T625_526; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 33; Image: 475.
- [S323] Ancestry website, online www.ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: Scammon, Cherokee, Kansas; Roll: 696; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 31; Image: 565.0.
- [S326] Edward J. Fern, "Mary Ellen McCormick," e-mail to Maurice J. O'Grady, 20 Jul 2003.
- [S335] Edward J. Fern, "Error," e-mail to Maurice J. O'Grady, 17 Sep 2006.
- [S77] Interview, Connie Ryan Fern, 7 Sep 1996.