Laura Winifred Fountain

Laura Winifred Fountain

Female 1864 - 1952  (87 years)

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  • Name Laura Winifred Fountain 
    Born 30 Dec 1864  Eden, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 17 Jan 1952  Des Moines, Boone County, Iowa, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Winifred Fountain's father died when she was about eleven years old. Her mother remarried. Her second husband's name was E. C. Wilson, and they lived in Goshen, Indiana. He was an excellent father to Winifred, and she always remembered him with love and respect. As a result she adopted his name and became known as Laura Winifred Wilson. She went by the name " Winifred." She was a small, softspoken woman who weighed only about 90 pounds. She married Richard J. Burke, and they had four children. He was a travelling salesman of women's ready to wear clothing. He became an alcoholic with a very severe drinking problem. Winifred divorced him, because of the alcoholism.Divorce was very rare for a woman to do in those days. The divorce probably occurred around 1908. She raised her family under conditions of adversity in Emporia, Kansas, & Oskaloosa, Iowa. In her later years, she lived in Fairfield, Iowa and Des Moines, Iowa. In Fairfield, she roomed with the Stout family on East Adams Street, which was on the way to school for her grandson, Tom Vernon. He visited her frequently on his way home from school, and they often talked about music, in which she took a great interest. On cold, stormy, winter days. Tom would often have lunch at his grandmother's table, rather than walk all of the way home from Washington School and back.
    • Additional Information Available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110985506/laura-winifred-burke
    Person ID I099  Complete
    Last Modified 25 Jun 2005 

    Father William Winfield Fountain, MD,   b. Abt 1838, Rochester, Monroe, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Dec 1886, Grand Traverse County, Michaigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Mother Mary Ellen Galer,   b. 31 Dec 1840, Granville, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1919, Probably Goshen, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Family ID F043  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Richard Joseph Burke, Jr.,   b. 6 Jul 1858, Picton, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1942, Des Moines, Boone County, Iowa, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 3 Jan 1888 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas Harold Burke,   b. 7 Jan 1889, Emporia, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Sep 1929  (Age 40 years)
    +2. Helen Jean Burke,   b. 25 Jun 1891, Emporia, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Sep 1976, Los Altos, California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     3. Laura Burke,   b. 6 Oct 1893, Emporia, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1982, Los Altos, California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years)
    +4. Bess Evelyn Burke,   b. 7 Jun 1896, Oskaloosa, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1980, NEAR, Kansas City, Johnson County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F036  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 30 Dec 1864 - Eden, Ohio Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 17 Jan 1952 - Des Moines, Boone County, Iowa, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
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    Laura Winifred Fountain
    Laura Winifred Fountain
    Photo Dated 1886 taken at age 22
    Photo taken at S.H. Waite Studio, West Sixth Street, Emporia, Kansas.