Extract from the 1910 Census:
Name: Olive M Pettis
Age in 1910: 3
Estimated birth year: 1907
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head of family: daughter
Home in 1910: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Marital status: single
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation: none
Siblings living at home: Edith M (age 20), George M (18), Carl V (16), Floyd C (14), Marie G (12), Harlow R (10), Earl C (8), Doris P (6), and Juel Dean (7/12)
Census place: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Series: T624; Roll: 1710; Page: 253B; Enumeration District: 59; Part: 1; Line: 19
Date: 15 Apr 1910

Extract from the 1920 Census:
Name: Olive M Pettis
Age: 13
Estimated birth year: 1907
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head of house: daughter
Home in 1920: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Address: farm
Marital status: single
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation: attending school
Siblings living at home: Harlow R (age 20), Earl C (18), Doris P (15), and Juel D (10)
Census place: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_1984; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 136; Image: 458
Date: 22 Jan 1920

Extract from the 1930 Census:
Name: Olive M McSorley
Age: 23
Estimated birth year: 1907
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: wife
Home in 1930: Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Address: 540 Niagara Street
Marital status: married
Age at first marriage: 19
Education: able to speak English
Education: able to read and write
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation: none
Census place: Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Roll: 2571; Page: ; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 914.0
Date: 11 Apr 1930

Extract from the 1940 Census:
Name: Olive McSorley
Age: 33
Estimated birth year: 1907
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: wife
Home in 1940: Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Address: 904 James Street
Marital status: married
Highest grade of school completed: 8
Living on farm: no
Place of residence in 1935: same house
Occupation: housework
Has other income of more than $50: no
Census place: Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Roll: T627_4477; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 18-18
Date: 17 Apr 1940

Extract from the 1950 Census:
Name: Olive M McSorley
Age: 43
Estimated birth year: 1907
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: wife
Home in 1950: Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Address: 904 James Street
Marital status: married
Living on farm: no
Occupation: keeping house
Census place: Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Date: 12 Apr 1950

Olive and Raymond lost three children at birth or in infancy. She gave birth to 15 children. When people would tell her she had too many children, she would respond, "Which one do you think I shouldn't have had?"

Obituary from the "Leader-Telegram" of Eau Claire, Wisconsin dated 4 Nov 1985:
Olive McSorley
Olive M. McSorley, 78. 904 James Street, died Saturday at Luther Hospital.
Olive Pettis was born in the Pettisville-Falrchild area and married Raymond McSorley in 1925 at Eau Claire. She was a clerk for Kohlhepp's Hardware and held offices in the Royal Neighbors and St. James Rosary Confraternity.
Survivors include six daughters, Patricia Thomson, Phoenix, Ariz., Kathleen Lanman, Bloomington, Minn., Deanna McDonald, Henderson, Minn., Virginia Rudd, Riverside, Calif., Jeanne Bartle, Janice Legge, both of Eau Claire; six sons, Raymond of Klmberly, Jerome, Zapata, Texas, William, Phoenix, Ariz., Arthur, Lavene, Ariz,, Larry, Dennis, both of Eau Claire; two sisters, Marie Volse, New Hall, Calif., Doris Nutton [sic], Inkster, Mich.; two brothers, Earl, Eau Claire, Juel, Fairchild; 52 grandchildren, and 63 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. James the Greater Catholic Church, with burial in Lakeview Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and until 11 a.m. Wednesday at Golden Funeral Home, where a prayer vigil will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Children:
(1) Patricia McSorley
(2) Raymond McSorley
(3) Jerome McSorley
(4) William McSorley
(5) Arthur McSorley
(6) Anita McSorley
(7) Kathleen McSorley
(8) Hugh McSorley
(9) Lawrence McSorley
(10) Dennis McSorley
(11) Virginia McSorley
(12) Thomas McSorley
(13) Jeanne McSorley
(14) Deanna McSorley
(15) Janice McSorley