More Info from the ME
Thanks for taking a look into this for us. Robert's date of death is 10/14/12, however since he has not gone to a funeral home yet, the social security administration has not been notified of his death. The house of Charity is a local homeless shelter.
We have not spoken with the social security administration, they typically will not provide us with information, however we have run a number of searches and one search in we were able to locate an individual with the same birth year as Mr. Ellison and a birthplace of Illinois, so we are thinking that this is our Mr. Ellison, this search provided us with the name of a sister, Patricia Ellison, who in 1940 was 17 years old. It also provided us with the names of the parents Douglas C. Ellison and Dorothy Ellison.
Thank you again for looking into this for us we have hit a road block with what we are able to accomplish.