"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89MR-C9MV?cc=2000219&wc=QZXG-GX5%3A790103001%2C798464501%2C798495801%2C798495802 : accessed 15 January 2023), Oregon > Wallowa > Joseph Election Precinct 2, Joseph > 32-16 Joseph Election Precinct 2, Joseph City (part) > image 1 of 12; citing 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.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V3K1-ZM9 : 11 January 2021), Dorvan Shields, Mar 1986; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
"Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ4V-CDX : 11 December 2014), Dorvan Ell Shields, 20 Mar 1986; from "Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Lane, Oregon, certificate number 86-05648, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Salem.
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