Around 1960, Elizabeth moved with Everette, their daughter, and their grandson to New Jersey where they lived for the rest of her life. Their son, Charles Everette Jr., had already married and remained in North Carolina.
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Mary E Purser died 21 October 2001 in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and was buried at Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, New Jersey.[2][7]
Sources
↑ Mary Elizabeth (Cooper) Purser in the "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007", Ancestry.com (Ancestry Record 60901 #20031058 : accessed 10 Mar 2016).
Abstract: Mary E . Purser, age 81, died 21 October 2001 at Hackettstown, New Jersey, born 20 May 1920 in Charlotte, North Carolina Daughter of Charles Z Cooper and Marey E Church Cooper Husband Charles Purser who died in June 1982 Buried at Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, New Jersey Survived by a daughter, a son, grandchildren, and great-granchildren Cochran Funeral Home, Hackettstown, New Jersey.
↑ Hewitt, Kimberley, Secretary. Correspondence March-April 1996 and ephemera including Reed Family Genealogy, brochures, and newsletters from The Gold History Corporation (9621 Reed Mine Road, Stanfield, NC 28163); archives now in the custody of Reed Gold Mine - North Carolina Historic Sites, Raleigh, N.C., Reed Family Genealogy, page 2; personal files of Debi Hoag, Leesburg, Florida. No record has been found to verify this information to date (2 Dec 2020).
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWQ3-WH9 : accessed 11 March 2016), Charles E P*Ser, Ward 11, Charlotte, Township 1 Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60-69B, sheet 7A, family 118, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2943.
↑ Mary E Purser in the "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014", Ancestry.com (Ancestry Record ssdi #50296614 : accessed 10 Mar 2016)
See Also:
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKTL-SFNB : accessed 1 December 2020), Mary E Purser, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 26 Oct 2001; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Jersey Journal, The, born-digital text.
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