"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K73K-SFK : accessed 22 July 2017), Dorothy M Purcell in household of Hiram F Purcell, Ward 8, St. Joseph, Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11-61, sheet 7A, line 29, family 154, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2089.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8BY-7RW : accessed 22 July 2017), Dorthy M Runkles in household of Thomas B Runkles, Madison, Fremont, Iowa, United States; citing ED 71, sheet 7A, line 10, family 92, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 490; FHL microfilm 1,820,490.
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGB-ZW32 : 11 July 2016), Dorothy M. Runkles Purcell, ; Burial, Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States of America, Ashland Cemetery; citing record ID 132408253, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Footnotes
↑ Entered by Sherri Posey, Thursday, November 14, 2013.
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