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"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3XM-G95 : accessed 26 June 2019), Jessie Shaptan, Illinois Township Russellville town, Pope, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 180, sheet 9A, family 179, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,072.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVP-FM1 : accessed 6 June 2017), Jessie J Shoptaw, Russellville Ward 1, Pope, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 88, sheet 12A, family 222, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 61; FHL microfilm 1,374,074.
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