To celebrate the release of the 1950 Census, here is my grandpa Daniel Graham in the census for New Madrid County, Missouri.
Birth Certificate of Blanche Watts

The birth certificate for Blanche Watts was completed by a midwife that didn't seem to understand what the form required.
WW2 Draft Card of Daniel Graham

My grandpa, Daniel Graham, registered with the draft board of Mississippi County, Missouri in December 1940.
Two Watts Twice Counted
Charles Watts and his sister Blanche Watts were each counted twice in the 1940 census for Searcy County, Arkansas. The first count for both was on sheet 4B of enumeration district 65-1, the city of Marshall in Bear Creek Township, Searcy County. Enumerator Blaine T. Myatt visited the Watts home on Walnut Street on Friday,…
Blanche Watts’ Application for Social Security Number
Most of the records I post here at stately Graham Ancestry can be found online, but sometimes we researchers can only obtain records an old fashioned way – by mail. I recently requested a copy of Blanche Graham’s Application for a Social Security Number, Form SS-5. Let’s take a closer look at it. Block 1,…