Hi Anna,

You said you have Ancestry, well I found him in the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 census. His name is spelled Earnest/Ernest. In the 1900 census he was living in Alabama, where he was born. In each of those census he was listed with a differen wife, Lizzie, Clara, Easter and Lula.
Do you recognize any of those names? Maybe someone on this site cand do a lookup for a death certificate.

James
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