"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP95-5P1M : 28 November 2018), J P Toms and M R Lattimore, 20 Nov 1912; citing Cleveland, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm.
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ8Y-H1R : 6 March 2020), John Palmer Toms, 1917-1918.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZKJ-1X1 : accessed 18 July 2020), John P Tams, Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States; citing ED 59, sheet 13A, line 32, family 207, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1291; FHL microfilm 1,821,291.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3SC-VQQ : accessed 18 July 2020), John P Toms, Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 9B, line 74, family 211, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1682; FHL microfilm 2,341,416.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K48Z-S9Z : 28 February 2020), John P Toms, Iva, Corner Township, Anderson, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 4-27, sheet 16A, line 33, family 247, 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 3786.
"North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPQS-51W : 17 July 2017), John Palmer Toms, 09 Aug 1970; citing Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina, cn 26866, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,983,482.
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