Laura was one of 10 children of Joseph Edward and Mary Ann McMillan Crews. She was born in Missouri, where the family had moved from NC. They stayed for some years until one day while they were visiting other relatives, a tornado destroyed their home. They returned to NC. Laura never married, but became a nurse. She worked for Salem College in Winston-Salem; in Macon, Ga.; also for a time as a private nurse for the Willingham family who were supposedly relatives of R J Reynolds, as well as at other places.
She had really beautiful light blue eyes. It is believed that she died of Alzheimer's.
Note: An article in the Aug. 21, 1908 Charlotte Observer stated that Laura, who was a nurse in Winston-Salem had been visiting her mother in Germanton, and was also going to be staying for awhile at Moore's Springs.
I remember my Aunt Laura as living in a small apartment over an old two-story frame house around the corner from where we lived in another similar apartment. She cooked on a "hot plate". But I remember her "fried peach pies", made from dried peaches. I love them to this day--(but I make mine a little sweeter than she did). Author-Barbara Burt
Laura was one of 10 children of Joseph Edward and Mary Ann McMillan Crews. She was born in Missouri, where the family had moved from NC. They stayed for some years until one day while they were visiting other relatives, a tornado destroyed their home. They returned to NC. Laura never married, but became a nurse. She worked for Salem College in Winston-Salem; in Macon, Ga.; also for a time as a private nurse for the Willingham family who were supposedly relatives of R J Reynolds, as well as at other places.
She had really beautiful light blue eyes. It is believed that she died of Alzheimer's.
Note: An article in the Aug. 21, 1908 Charlotte Observer stated that Laura, who was a nurse in Winston-Salem had been visiting her mother in Germanton, and was also going to be staying for awhile at Moore's Springs.
I remember my Aunt Laura as living in a small apartment over an old two-story frame house around the corner from where we lived in another similar apartment. She cooked on a "hot plate". But I remember her "fried peach pies", made from dried peaches. I love them to this day--(but I make mine a little sweeter than she did). Author-Barbara Burt
Family Members
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Susan Victoria Crews Woodruff
1869–1948
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Taliaferro M "Toliver or Tol" Crews
1875–1945
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Katherine Minerva "Kate" Crews McKenzie
1876–1910
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William Edward "Ed" Crews
1879–1941
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Martha "Mattie" Crews Cutler
1883–1955
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Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Crews
1885–1919
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Robert Everett "Bob" Crews
1888–1966
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Norman Clyde Crews
1891–1971
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