"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," Database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NM4W-KGP : accessed 17 June 2015), Wilmer H. Ellis, 27 Jan 1973; citing Kanawha, West Virginia, County Records, 462, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 2,114,637.:
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7CK-J42 : accessed 18 May 2018), Wilmer H Ellis, South Charleston, Loudon Magisterial District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20-92B, sheet 1B, line 67, family 21, 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 4415.
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