Robert Elwood Lank

   Cause of his death was tuberculosis or "consumption."

  General Notes:

Brothers Robert and Frank, with spouses Mollie and Mary, lived in separate apartments in the same house on Market Street. Frank and Mary lived in the apartment upstairs.
16 April 1910 Census for Sussex Cnty, DE: Robert E. Lank, 30, merchant in cigar store, b. DE as were parents, married 2 yrs; Mollie C., 28, b. MD as were parents, bearing 1 child, 1 living; Mildred E., 6/12; Frank Lank, 21, brother, wagon driver on oil route.

Robert married "Mollie" Mary Catherine Hayman, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Hayman and Elizabeth Mary Hester Parsons, on Sep 9, 1908. ("Mollie" Mary Catherine Hayman was born on May 15, 1881 in Parsonsburg (then Johnsons Forks), died on Apr 8, 1924 in Salisbury sanitorium for the ill (TB) and was buried in Seaford Odd Fellows Cmtry.). The cause of her death was tuberculosis or "consumption."