Just in Time to Appear in the Census

I photographed the gravestone of Lucie Skehan McCrea (1893-1920) for upload to Find A Grave.

Mount Hebron Cemetery
Montclair, New Jersey

I looked for Lucie on Ancestry.com to see if she could be linked to others in this cemetery.

Lucie died in Pelham, Westchester County, New York. These indexes are online. The actual death certificates, however, can only be ordered through the New York State Department of Health for $22.

Lucie was enumerated in the 1920 census in Pelham with her husband, Daniel McCrea (1883-1936).

Newspaper articles popped up, so I took a look.

Transcription of death notice:

McCrea. - At Pelham, N.Y., January 19, 1920, LUCIE SKEHAN, wife of Daniel W. McCrea. Funeral at St. Catherine's Church, Pelham, N.Y., Wednesday, January 21, ten A.M. Interment private.

Lucie died very early in the year- January 19, 1920. So I went back and looked at the date on the census.

These census entries were recorded the day Lucie died! Was she at home when the census taker arrived? Was she ill at the time?