Elijah Melvin ("Mel") Hadsell (b September 22, 1912 — d May 17, 1988, in Largo, FL)
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m Helen Inga Birchard (b April 23, 1917, to Elbert Willis and Inez Edna (née Parsons) Birchard in Council Bluffs, Iowa — d September 2, 2007, in Lebanon, OH) on March 31, 1940, in Council Bluffs, Iowa (First Presbyterian Church)

Children:

• Robert Melvin (b January 10, 1942)
• Richard Wayne (b May 28, 1944)

Born in Schenectady, NY

Residence: Schenectady, NY; retired to Largo, FL

Education: A.B., Park College, Parkville, MO, 1935

Occupation: research analyst, General Electric Research & Development Laboratory, Schenectady, NY

Helen education: A.B., Park College, Parkville, MO, 1938

Helen occupation: senior secretary, Carman Elementary School and then Mohonasen Central School District; clerk, Board of Education, Carman and then Mohonasen

E. Melvin and Helen Hadsell are interred in Memory Gardens Cemetery and Memorial Park, Albany, New York, in the plot with E. Melvin's parents.