Interview by Bessie Purser with daughter of Dan Hughes Vivian Marshall
"Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28F-VLT : accessed 12 May 2016), W. G. White and E. P. Lang, 21 Feb 1883; citing Simpson,Mississippi; FHL microfilm 886,969.
Son's DC "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F1G4-9BR : accessed 12 May 2016), Eliza Lang in entry for John White, 07 May 1935; citing Harrison Co., West Virginia, County Records, v 10 p 276b, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 847,172.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYR9-H2L : accessed 12 May 2016), Eliza Sellers in household of G W Sellers, Police Jury Ward 2, West Carroll, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-5, sheet 3A, family 9, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1466.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPDL-SP6 : accessed 12 May 2016), Eliza Sellers in household of George Sellers, Beat 1, Simpson, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 120, sheet 4A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,771.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9F3-FB3 : accessed 12 May 2016), Eliza P White in household of Will G White, Beat 3 (west of Oschay Creek), Smith, Mississippi, United States; citing sheet 9A, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,828.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4G4-4JJ : accessed 12 May 2016), Eliza Lang in household of Joseph Lang, Mount Carmel, Covington, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 125, sheet 350A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0646; FHL microfilm 1,254,646.
Acknowledgments
Lang-1796 was created by Myrtis Jane Bishop through the import of wiki-Sellers-Sharon.ged on Nov 2, 2014.
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Lang-2409 and Lang-1796 appear to represent the same person because: I incorrectly put the wrong Lang to merge. Check them out and let me know. Thanks, Vivian