His death certificate records Elijah Harrison Short, age 58 years 2 months 27 days, born 17 Mar 1894 in Wolfe Co., Ky, died 14 June 1952 at home, 2010 Crescent Boulevard, Middletown, Butler Co., Ohio, length of residency 43 years, married, retired pipe fitter at paper mill, father Alex Short, mother’s maiden name Sirrilda Elam, cause of death cancer of the lung, informant Mrs. E. H. Short, burial in Woodside Cemetery, Middletown.

1940 census of Montgomery Co., Ohio, German township, ED 57-10 (outside Germantown), enumerated 26 April, lists on p. 14B as family #280:
Short, Elijah, 46, b. Ky, pipe fitter at paper mill; Nita, wife, 37, b. Ky; Elmer, son, 18, b. Ky; Thomas, son, 16; Robert, son, 12; Harold, son, 10; Louella, dau, 8; Mary, dau, 1. Thomas through Mary born in Ohio. All living in Butler Co., Ohio in 1935.