In the 1925 KS state census, Rebecca Purvis, 66, was a widow and heado f the house in Elwood, Doniphan Co, KS which she owned free ofmortgage . The only other person in the household was daughterPrudent Wilson, 5 0. Neither woman worked.
At census time on 4/11/1930 widow Rebecca J Purvis, 75, was head ofthe h ouse in Elwood, probably the same family home she now owned witha valu e of $1000 and had a radio as well. She married for the firsttime at a ge 15. Her daughter still lived with her and was going byPrudence A W ilson at that time, age 55, married at 19 for the firsttime. Harry C W ilson, 30, married at 26 but was also divorced andback with Mom and Gr andmother. He was an expressman in the expressoffice. Son Louis li ved in the same town.
