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Note: 1. Ernest G. Yehling and Emma Wolfram were married at the First Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church located at the corner of 8th and Lafayette in St. Louis, MO. This is the same church where his parents were also married. 2. Copied from the St. Louis City Directory:
1909. Yehling, Ernest G. Timekeeper, 101 Union Station, r 4444 Pennsylvania Ave. (This is also the addess listed on his St. Louis, MO Marriage Application). 1910. Timekeeper, 101 Union Station, 3551A Louisiana Ave. 1911. Timekeeper, 101 Union Station, 3551A Louisiana Ave. 1914. Yardmaster, 3411A Gravois Ave. 1916. Yardmaster, 3457 Tennessee 1917. Yardmaster Bremen Ave., 3457 Tennessee. 1918. Trainmaster, 3457 Tennessee. 1919. Trainmaster Terminal Railroad Assoc., 3457 Tennessee. 1923. Yardmaster, 5426 Cologne Ave. 1927. Yardmaster, 5426 Cologne Ave. 3. 1920 MO Census: (The Ernest G. Yehling family was enumerated
as living at 6267 Printz Ave. in the home of Henry S. Opp, an uncle.) Yehling, Ernest 32 MO Emma 33 Germany (1891, na 1898) Earl 9 MO Ernest, Jr 7/12 MO 4. Was living at 4619 Neosho St., St. Louis, MO when he died.
5. He was a member of: Pyramid Lodge No. 180, A.F. and A.M., the Low
Twelve Club and the American Chapter No. 484 O.E.S and B.A.R.E. 6. Obituary, probably a Belleville, IL newspaper of 5 Apr 1946:
"Ernest G. Yehling Dies At St. Louis At 59; Rites Monday Belleville relatives received word today of the sudden death of Ernest G. Yehling, 59, husband of the former Cora Hepp of this city, who was found dead in his home, 4916 Neosho street, St. Louis, by his wife when she returned to her home after a brief absence yesterday afternoon. Death was due to a heart attack. Yehling for many years and at the time of his death was a yardmaster for the Terminal Railroad Company. He was the brother-in-law of Assistant City Treasurer A.J. "Burry" Hepp, Frank and Monroe Hepp, of Belleville. Besides his wife he leaves two sons by an earlier marriage, a brother and sister. He was a member of various Masonic bodies in St. Louis. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Monday afternoon in John L. Ziegenhein and Sons funeral home, 7027 Gravois avenue, St. Louis, with interment in Sunset Burial Park." 7. Death notice, probably from a St. Louis, MO newspaper of April, 1946:
"Railroad Veteran Dies Ernest G. Yehling, 58, superintendent of the Merchants Bridge Terminal of the Terminal Railroad Association and former director in the St. Louis area of the Office of Defense Transportation during the war, died Thursday of heart disease at his home, 4916 Neosho st. Yehling had been with the Terminal for about 40 years." 8. His Missouri death certificate is #15355.
SOURCES INCLUDE:
Index to Marr. Rec. St. Louis, MO (1881-1911, male).
Marr. Rec. St. Louis, MO, Book 62:213.
Marriage License, St. Louis, MO
1910 St. Louis, MO census [ED 174.54].
1920 St. Louis, MO census [ED 233.7].
Post-Dispatch, 5 Apr 1946.
Star-Times, 5 Apr 1946.
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