When Laura Adkins was born on 8 January 1904, in Honaker, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, her father, George Adkins, was 36 and her mother, Mary Anne Clark, was 16. She married Virgil Andrew Patrick on 17 June 1921, in Pike, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Pike, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 1, Pike, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 9 October 1993, in Thornton, Adams, Colorado, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Aurora, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.