Laura Frances Salmon married in Rusk County, Texas 20 October 1867 Benjamin Franklin Birdwell, who had been a Civil War soldier.
The Blazek-Rodman family tree gives her name as Louise Sammons but also indicates she may have married again after B.F. Birdwell's death. Their youngest child was under five years old, but there is no record of her remarrying. She is shown as Laura F. Birdwell on the 1880 census, Laura Birdwell on the 1900 and 1910 censuses, still in Rusk County, In 1909 Laura F. Birdwell applied for a Confederate widow's pension and stated she had not remarried.
Her granddaughter Bernice Bartlett Birdwell stated that both Benjamin Franklin Birdwell and his wife were buried in the family cemetery which was destroyed by Mr. Ross in the 1960s at the time she visited it. She related this to Sherman Isbell when he visited the site in 1986.
The Blazek-Rodman family tree gives her name as Louise Sammons but also indicates she may have married again after B.F. Birdwell's death. Their youngest child was under five years old, but there is no record of her remarrying. She is shown as Laura F. Birdwell on the 1880 census, Laura Birdwell on the 1900 and 1910 censuses, still in Rusk County, In 1909 Laura F. Birdwell applied for a Confederate widow's pension and stated she had not remarried.
Her granddaughter Bernice Bartlett Birdwell stated that both Benjamin Franklin Birdwell and his wife were buried in the family cemetery which was destroyed by Mr. Ross in the 1960s at the time she visited it. She related this to Sherman Isbell when he visited the site in 1986.
Laura Frances Salmon married in Rusk County, Texas 20 October 1867 Benjamin Franklin Birdwell, who had been a Civil War soldier.
The Blazek-Rodman family tree gives her name as Louise Sammons but also indicates she may have married again after B.F. Birdwell's death. Their youngest child was under five years old, but there is no record of her remarrying. She is shown as Laura F. Birdwell on the 1880 census, Laura Birdwell on the 1900 and 1910 censuses, still in Rusk County, In 1909 Laura F. Birdwell applied for a Confederate widow's pension and stated she had not remarried.
Her granddaughter Bernice Bartlett Birdwell stated that both Benjamin Franklin Birdwell and his wife were buried in the family cemetery which was destroyed by Mr. Ross in the 1960s at the time she visited it. She related this to Sherman Isbell when he visited the site in 1986.
The Blazek-Rodman family tree gives her name as Louise Sammons but also indicates she may have married again after B.F. Birdwell's death. Their youngest child was under five years old, but there is no record of her remarrying. She is shown as Laura F. Birdwell on the 1880 census, Laura Birdwell on the 1900 and 1910 censuses, still in Rusk County, In 1909 Laura F. Birdwell applied for a Confederate widow's pension and stated she had not remarried.
Her granddaughter Bernice Bartlett Birdwell stated that both Benjamin Franklin Birdwell and his wife were buried in the family cemetery which was destroyed by Mr. Ross in the 1960s at the time she visited it. She related this to Sherman Isbell when he visited the site in 1986.
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