"South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKD8-YRXT : 11 February 2018), Lydia Mayer, 16 Aug 1907; citing Birth, Mcpherson, South Dakota, United States, South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPX1-KBB : accessed 1 January 2021), Lydia Mayer in household of Jacob Mayer, Blaine Township, McPherson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 294, sheet 4B, family 47, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1483; FHL microfilm 1,375,496.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQV8-ZFH : accessed 1 January 2021), Lydia Eisenbeis in household of Julius L Eisenbeis, Township 125, McPherson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 17, sheet 1B, line 54, family 11, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2227; FHL microfilm 2,341,961.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V195-KCC : 20 November 2019), Lydia Eisenbeis in household of Julius L Eisenbeis, Township 125 Range 69, McPherson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 45-17, sheet 1B, line 66, family 13, 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 3861.
"United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS3-DD2K : 11 September 2020), Lydia L Mayer Eisenbeis, 8 Sep 1995; citing Obituary, in "Aberdeen American News"; American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Lydia L Mayer Eisenbeis (16 Aug 1907–8 Sep 1995), Find A Grave: Memorial #174013434, citing Sunset Memorial Gardens, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA ; Maintained by Renee Graupman Christensen (contributor 48219960) .
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