Myrtle was born in 1912 in North Carolina to Joseph Walter and Nora Phillips Stedman.[1][2] Myrtle married William Arthur Richards. She passed away in 2010, and was entombed in the Mausoleum, Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Tallahassee, Florida. She shares a grave marker with her husband..[3]
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"North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHGH-8CQ : accessed 8 November 2015), Myrtle Jewel Stedman, 19 Sep 1912; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. 310, p. 9, Guilford, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZV8-TBR : accessed 8 November 2015), Myrtle J Stedman in household of Walter Stedman, Greensboro Ward 6, Guilford, North Carolina, United States; citing sheet 17A, family 350, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,302.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X33H-D5N : accessed 8 November 2015), Myrtle J Stedman in household of J Walter Stedman, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0030, sheet 4A, family 80, line 20, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1695; FHL microfilm 2,341,429.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWQH-HCX : accessed 8 November 2015), Myrtle S Richards in household of J Walter Steadman, Area B, Greensboro, Morehead Township, Guilford, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 41-45, sheet 8A, family 164, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2920.
Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from grave marker at the Mausoleum in Tallahassee Memory Gardens (cemetery), Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA.