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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- 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"
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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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