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Sources consulted for the biography of:Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (1875–1939)
Primary Sources
- Birth register (with Feb. 2, 1875, birth date for Milly Lawson), Pittsylvania Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Birth date of March 29, 1877, and first name Mildred on gravestone, Williams Memorial Park Cemetery, Roanoke.
- Marriage Register (age twenty-one on 25 Dec. 1895), Danville, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- United States Census Schedules, Danville, 1900 (with Mar. 1876 birth date), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Scrapbook (with photograph) in Ladies United Aid Society Collection, Gainsboro Branch, Roanoke Public Library.
- Death certificate (with age "about 62"), Roanoke City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Isaac M. Warren, "Our Colored People" (Virginia Writers Project typescript dated 1941), Gainsboro Branch, Roanoke Public Library, esp. 81, 91.
- Eunice R. Poindexter, Journey of Faith: A History of First Baptist Church (1983), 27, 42.
Newspapers
- Brief feature article in Baltimore Afro-American, Aug. 24, 1929.
- Richmond Planet, Nov. 13, 1920 (second and third quotations); Mar. 19, 1921 (first quotation).
Obituaries
- Roanoke Times, July 3, 1939.
- Norfolk Journal and Guide, July 8, 1939 (fourth quotation).
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