Laura Wills

Brief Life History of Laura

When Laura Wills was born on 12 August 1849, in Grand Coteau, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, her father, Justin Wills, was 37 and her mother, Marie Magdeleine Burleigh, was 34. She married James Madison Burleigh on 24 August 1871, in St. Landry, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Ward, Allen, Louisiana, United States in 1880 and Ward Two, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States in 1910. She died on 5 March 1924, in Grand Coteau, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Saint Charles Borromeo Cemetery, Grand Coteau, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Madison Burleigh
1852–1921
Laura Wills
1849–1924
Marriage: 24 August 1871
Mary Hester Burleigh
1872–
James Edward Burleigh
1873–1942
J Lawrence Burleigh
1875–1942
Frederick "Freddie" Burleigh
1876–1935
Magdalen Burleigh
1878–1914
William Louis Burleigh
1880–1957
Jessie Burleigh
1881–1967
Marie Cornelia Burleigh
1883–
Joseph Ethelbert Burleigh
1884–1945
Florence Burleigh
1885–1954
Leo Loyd Burleigh
1887–1937
Charles Casson Burleigh
1891–1965
Theophile Burleigh
1891–

Sources (22)

  • Laura Burleigh in household of James M Burleigh, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Laura Wills, "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • Laura Wills Burleigh, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1868 · Louisiana Is Readmitted Into the Union

Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English and German: variant of Will with genitival -s.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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