↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMTG-G3M : accessed 10 September 2016), Esther Peterson in household of Edwin N Peterson, Ward 3, Burlington, Burlington Township, Des Moines, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 29-10, sheet 3A, family 63, 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 1156.
↑ "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V469-LH7 : 20 May 2016), Edwin Niels Peterson in entry for Richard Lee Peterson, 02 Mar 1920; citing Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States; county district courts, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,547,634.
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