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1864 - 1952 (87 years)
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Name |
Laura Winifred Fountain |
Born |
30 Dec 1864 |
Eden, Ohio |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
17 Jan 1952 |
Des Moines, Boone County, Iowa, U.S.A. |
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
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Person ID |
I099 |
Complete |
Last Modified |
25 Jun 2005 |
Father |
William Winfield Fountain, MD, b. Abt 1838, Rochester, Monroe, New York , d. 12 Dec 1886, Grand Traverse County, Michaigan (Age ~ 48 years) |
Mother |
Mary Ellen Galer, b. 31 Dec 1840, Granville, Ohio , d. 1919, Probably Goshen, Indiana (Age 78 years) |
Family ID |
F043 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Richard Joseph Burke, Jr., b. 6 Jul 1858, Picton, Ontario, Canada , d. Abt 1942, Des Moines, Boone County, Iowa, U.S.A. (Age 83 years) |
Married |
3 Jan 1888 |
Children |
+ | 1. Thomas Harold Burke, b. 7 Jan 1889, Emporia, Kansas , d. 5 Sep 1929 (Age 40 years) |
+ | 2. Helen Jean Burke, b. 25 Jun 1891, Emporia, Kansas , d. 22 Sep 1976, Los Altos, California (Age 85 years) |
| 3. Laura Burke, b. 6 Oct 1893, Emporia, Kansas , d. 13 Nov 1982, Los Altos, California (Age 89 years) |
+ | 4. Bess Evelyn Burke, b. 7 Jun 1896, Oskaloosa, Iowa , d. Abt 1980, NEAR, Kansas City, Johnson County, Missouri, USA (Age 83 years) |
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Family ID |
F036 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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| Born - 30 Dec 1864 - Eden, Ohio |
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| Died - 17 Jan 1952 - Des Moines, Boone County, Iowa, U.S.A. |
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Photos |
| Laura Winifred Fountain Photo Dated 1886 taken at age 22
Photo taken at S.H. Waite Studio, West Sixth Street, Emporia, Kansas. |
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