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- ↑ Political Graveyard
- ↑ Pennsylvania State Senate Biography
- ↑ The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 1991, Obituaries, p. B10
- ↑ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "Watkins-Rhoades-Hobbs family of Pennsylvania". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- ↑ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014