For a time, he worked as an electrician in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Tombstone inscription.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143767918/louis-oliver-lester: accessed 02 May 2023), memorial page for Louis Oliver Lester (15 May 1880–13 Oct 1959), Find a Grave Memorial ID 143767918, citing Berea Cemetery, Berea, Madison County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by Martha Chrisman Riley (contributor 48434948).
"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MHP4-TD2 : accessed 16 March 2015), Louis O Lester, Hazard City, Perry, Kentucky, United States; citing sheet 26A, family 666, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,595.
"United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K7RP-98Y : accessed 16 March 2015), Louis O Lester, Magisterial District 1, Fayette, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 34-45, sheet 2B, family 44, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1303.
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