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Sources consulted for the biography of:Elizabeth James Morris Downes (1886–1968)
Primary Sources
- Birth date in Social Security application, Social Security Administration, Office of Earnings Operations, Baltimore, Maryland
- information provided by niece Marianna Edwards (1990)
Secondary Sources
- Blanche Sydnor White, History of the Baptists on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1776–1959 (1959), 56–59
- Juliette Mather, Light Three Candles: History of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia, 1874–1973 [1972], 96–97
- Kirk Mariner, Revival's Children: A Religious History of Virginia's Eastern Shore (1979), 169, 171–172, 300
Newspapers
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 19, 1905
- Accomac Peninsula Enterprise, February 25, 1949
Obituaries
- Onancock Eastern Shore News, November 14, 1968
- memorial in Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia (1969)
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