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STATUS: REUNITED WITH FAMILY

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PHOTOGRAPH INFORMATION

NAME(S): Effie & Verne Bourland
PHOTOGRAPH: # 835
OTHER INFO: Aunt
PHOTOGRAPHER: Dingman Studio, Los Angeles, California
CARD SIZE: Not Recorded
WHERE PURCHASED: Roswell, New Mexico
WHEN PURCHESED: April 19, 2004

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Identified: Effie I. McChesney

Born: November 17, 1880 in Iowa
Died: May 9, 1969 Los Angeles County, CA
Father:
Mother:
Married 1st: Leigh Bourland
Married 2nd: Leonard Marks
Children: Vern Gerald

Identified: Verne Gerald Bourland

Born: August 28, 1905 in Long Beach, California
Died: May 2, 1934 in Los Angeles, California
Buried: Artesia Cemetery in Cerritos, California
Father: Leigh Bourland
Mother: Effie I. McChesney
Married:
Children:

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NOTES

1910 California Census she is listed as divorced.
1920 California Census listed as Effie Marks and Verne Bourland
1930 California Census married to Leonard Marks
Parents were born in New Jersey and Wisconsin.
1900 California Census listed as Effie McChesney and Leigh D.
Bourland is listed as a boarder in the McChesney home.
Vern killed himself with mercuric chloride poisoning.

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SOURCES

1850 Census Carroll Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (Grandma)
1870 Census Rye Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (Grandma & Susan)
1880 Census Auburn, Sangamon County, Illinois (Grandma, Susan & Henrietta)
1885 State Census Union Township, Jefferson County, Kansas (Susan & Henrietta)
1895 State Census McLouth, Jefferson County, Kansas (Grandma)
1900 Census Union Township, Jefferson County, Kansas (Susan, Henrietta & Della)
1905 State Census McLouth, Jefferson County, Kansas (Grandma, Susan, Henrietta & Della)
1910 Census Union Township, Jefferson County, Kansas (Susan, Henrietta & Della)
1915 State Census McLouth, Jefferson County, Kansas (Susan)
1920 Census Union Township, Jefferson County, Kansas (Henrietta & Della)
1925 State Census McLouth, Jefferson County, Kansas (Henrietta & Della)
1930 Census McLouth, Jefferson County, Kansas (Henrietta)
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records (Grandma)
Jefferson County Kansas Marriage Record (Susan, 2nd marriage)
FindAGrave.com (Grandma Barbara)
FindAGrave.com (Susan)
FindAGrave.com (Henrietta)
FindAGrave.com (Della)