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Jordan Cemetery, 45-1 Summary Report, page 20

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The above record gives the age of Moses Jr. as 40 in 1910. He should be age 31, since the earlier records indicate that he was born in 1879. When the census enumerator came by his house in 1910, he may have been in distant fields or on a trip to town, and then the information about him may have been approximated by guesses offered by his “hired woman” or the “hired boy” in the household. If so, then it would indicate that Moses had aged prematurely, for them to assume that he was 9 years older than his actual age. Note that the “hired woman” was a widow, just as Moses Jr. was shown as widowed. She had borne 6 children, of whom only 1 was still living in 1910. This census page also included the listing of the household of Peter Love, another brother of Moses Jr. The relationship to Ethel Love, the 18-year-old female head of household along the same “Burton Road”, is unknown. The 1920 census has Rufus, Mary J., and Adolfus Love heading households near one another on the same page. They are still living in the Whitesburg Precinct, or in the Pond Beat area. The details of the “lost” information from the truncated right end of the census page was downloaded, and it can be viewed on the files contained on the CD-ROM provided to the Army. All heads of household were always listed with the occupation of “farmer”. Moses Jr. was not located in this census year by using the Ancestry.com search methods, but he was found in the 1930 census, as inserted immediately after the 1920 image below: 20 - (1920)    

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