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Name Thomas Edison Sawyer
Age 52
Estimated Birth Year abt 1888
Gender Male
Race White
Birthplace North Carolina
Marital Status Married
Relation to Head of House Head
Home in 1940 Portsmouth City, Portsmouth City, Virginia
Street Sixth
House Number 823
Farm No
Inferred Residence in 1935 Portsmouth City, Portsmouth City, Virginia
Residence in 1935 Portsmouth City
Resident on farm in 1935 No
Sheet Number 3B
Number of Household in Order of Visitation 62
Occupation Painter
House Owned or Rented Rented
15
Attended School or College No
Highest Grade Completed Elementary school, 7th grade
Duration of Unemployment 65
Class of Worker Wage or salary worker in Government work
Weeks Worked in 1939 52
Income 960
Income Other Sources No
Neighbors
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Thomas Edison Sawyer 52 Head
Fannie May Sawyer 33 Wife
Thomas Edward Sawyer 14 Son
Alice May Sawyer 10 Daughter
Mary Frankes Sawyer 9 Daughter
Robert Earl Sawyer 7 Son
James Mary Sawyer 3 Son
John David Sawyer 1 Son

Source Citation

Year: 1940; Census Place: Portsmouth City, Portsmouth City, Virginia; Roll: m-t0627-04317; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 116-23

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

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