In my last iteration of reinstalling, I had commented the following and and replaced it with the sudo installation.
#ExecStart=/home/electrum/electrumx/electrumx_server.py
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/electrumx_server.py

As a rough postmortem, I got so used to appending the instructions with tweaks such as "pip3" instead of "pip" and "sudo apt-get install" instead of "apt-get install" I lost sight of the fact the in order to contain the privileges of user electrum you want to make sure electrum only starts files/processes which are not owned by root.  I am actually still a little fuzzy how the user electrum could even access a file in /usr (?inherentence from systemctl?).  Therefore, "python3.6 setup.py install" should work for anyone else attempting to install on Ubuntu, but you will probably need the symbolic link from my last post.  I don't know what the error was that caused my to comment the line above was, but my guess is that I would not of seen it on debian (if python3.6 baked in).