Ollie Ruth (Purser) Harper (1897 - 1970)

Born 13 Sep 1897 in Simpson County, Mississippi

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Died 23 Apr 1970 at age 72 in Simpson County, Mississippi

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Biography

Ollie Ruth is the youngest child of Elias and several of the sons of Elias added the name Ollie to their daughters name.She is buried in the Lakewood South Memorial Park, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi double marker with her husband John Jefferson Harper.

Sources

• Personal knowledge of son Hiram Eulysses Purser and May Ruthie King Purser, wife of son John Daniel Purser in an interview by Bessie Purser wife of R, T, Purser son of Hiram. U. S. Federal Census Records.

Biography

Youngest child of Elias and several of his sons added the name Ollie to their daughters name.

Sources

• Personal interview with Ollie Ruth Purser Harper and Nannie Jane Purser Harper by Bessie Purser
• 1900 Census, Beat 2, Simpson County, Mississippi, listed as Bertha O Burke 2, her widowed father Elias 52.
• 1910 Census, Beat 2, Simpson County, Mississippi, listed as Ollie Purser age 13, her father had died and she was in the hh of her Grandparents A. G. Johnson and S. C. (Sophronia) listed as granddaughter.
• Census 1920 was living in Marion County, Ms.
• Census 1930 Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi, John age 32, Ollie 29, Ernest 11.Emerson 6, E. H. 3.
• Census 1940, Simpson County, Mississippi, john J 45, Ollie 43, Earnest 23, Everson 16. E.H. 14.