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Purves, Thomas
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Thomas Purves (aka Purvis) was from Scotland. He was born in 1887
and started in the work in 1905 at age 17.
He invited Willie Jamieson to Willie's first meeting,
where Willie professed and went into the work two weeks later.
Thomas Purves arrived in Montreal, Canada on August 11, 1905
from Liverpool England, age 23, aboard the “S. S. Virginian.”
He went to California in 1906, and died alone in Riverside CA of tuberculosis in 1911, age 24.
He was the 2nd worker to die in the United States
Some friends found his grave and placed a marker on it years later.
He is buried in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, California.
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