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[M] #11104 John Harrison Sutton ( Frank Mechling Sutton • Maria Margaret Mechling • Joseph Mechling • John Mechling • John Jacob Mechling • Diebold "Theobald" Mechling◊ • Diebold Mechling◊ • Martin Mechling◊ )

John was born Apr 1891 in Tarentum, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. He died 17 Oct 1918 in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania from pneumonia caused by influenza. He was buried 19 Oct 1918 in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania.

He was a chief clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad in their relief department.

John married #67182 Mercedes Maria Bernard.

Relationship notes

They married.

 

Other names for Mercedes: Mercedes Maria Johnston, Maria Mercedes Sutton, Mercedes M. Sutton.

Mercedes was born Aug 1896 in Pennsylvania. She died 1947. She was buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegany Co., Pennsylvania.

She is the daughter of Herman W. & Ida E. (Brookman) Bernard. Her parents were German.

On the 1910 Census she is Mercedes C. On the 1920 and 1930 Census records she is Mercedes M. and Mercedes Maria on her grave marker. Some sources list her as Maria Mercedes.

By 1930, she had remarried to William Casper Johnston and was living in Pittsburgh. In 1940 she is working as a cashier in a retail store.

She and William died within a year of each other and are buried together.

Children of this relationship:

#67183FiLiving 
#67184FiiLiving 

1900 U.S. Census, Allegheny Ward 3, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004., Roll: 1355; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0025; FHL microfilm: 1241355.

1910 U.S. Census, Hempfield Twp., Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006., Roll: T624_1429; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0134; FHL microfilm: 1375442.

1910 U.S. Census, Pittsburgh Ward 4, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009., Roll: T624_1300; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0319; FHL microfilm: 1375313.

1920 U.S. Census, Wilkinsburg Ward 1, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010., Roll: T625_1530; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 858; Image: 677.

1930 U.S. Census, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002, Roll: 1977; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0214; Image: 101.0; FHL microfilm: 2341711.

1940 U.S. Census, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012., Roll: T627_3661; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 69-342.

John H. Sutton death certificate, no. 136391, registered no. 427 (19 Oct 1918), Vital Statistics, Dept. of Health, Pennsylvania.

John H. Sutton, obituary, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 18 Oct 1918, p. 11.

John Harrison Sutton, cemetery notes, www.findagrave.com, #143896253.

Mercedes Maria Johnston, cemetery notes, www.findagrave.com, #90964648.

Line Generation: 9

Relationship: Fifth Cousins Two Times Removed through Diebold "Theobald" Mechling◊