When Laura Bell Robuck was born on 11 January 1858, in Tiffin Township, Adams, Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Robuck, was 41 and her mother, Margaret Haines, was 26. She married Walter Wirt Prather on 8 October 1874, in West Union, Tiffin Township, Adams, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 6 July 1918, in West Union, Tiffin Township, Adams, Ohio, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Independent Order of Oddfellows Cemetery, West Union, Tiffin Township, Adams, Ohio, United States.
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English (West Yorkshire): variant of Roebuck .
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