Aunt Laura and her brother Wesley Jr. were both crippled from infancy (perhaps with locomotor ataxia) and needed assistance to walk. In adulthood they lived with their elderly father and stepmother, and after their deaths, with their sister Fannie and her husband, John Burchett, in whose home they died in 1946—only 13 days apart—from tuberculosis.
Laura's date of birth is given as February 1893 in the census of 1900. Her death certificate (evidently erroneously) gives her birth date as August 10, 1908.
Aunt Laura and her brother Wesley Jr. were both crippled from infancy (perhaps with locomotor ataxia) and needed assistance to walk. In adulthood they lived with their elderly father and stepmother, and after their deaths, with their sister Fannie and her husband, John Burchett, in whose home they died in 1946—only 13 days apart—from tuberculosis.
Laura's date of birth is given as February 1893 in the census of 1900. Her death certificate (evidently erroneously) gives her birth date as August 10, 1908.
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