He was alive in 1913 according to the obituary of Hulda Barton Rooker his half sister. According to Chester Moulder he married Nannie Sissons and they had three children, George Cecil, and Edgar _________________________________________________________ The actual dates and following information by Ruth Hoover, in 1934.The children of Elias and Nannie were Edgar Elias of Salisbury, Mo. Anna Elizabeth( Mrs Mack Farrar-Laclede, Mo.) and George Cecil of Brookfield.
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In diary of Ruth Foreman, she mentions going to Uncle Elias and Aunt Anna in spring of 1917 so he was still alive at that time.