When Joseph William Cowles was born on October 3, 1917, in Wapello, Iowa, his father, Nelson, was 46 and his mother, Anna, was 33. He had one brother and three sisters. He died as a child on January 6, 1921, in his hometown, and was buried there.
Year: 1920; Census Place: Wapello, Louisa, Iowa; Roll: T625_495; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 105
Source Information Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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