"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWG9-K6Q : accessed 16 December 2016), Merle M Bowen in household of Albert E Bowen, Springfield Township, Summit, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 77-73, sheet 17B, line 69, family 356, 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 3154.
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