Laura Alice CAUDILL

1892 - 1940  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Laura Alice CAUDILL  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	May 1892	Basin Cove, NC   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	01 Mar 1940	Whitehall, MD   [4]
  Burial	Forest Hill, MD
  Person ID	I32	Rootballs
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	James Harrison CAUDILL,   b. 03 Feb 1841, Wilkes Co., NC d. 15 Sep 1924, Wilkes Co., NC (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Sarah E. TILLEY,   b. Mar 1855, Dobson, Surry Co., NC d. Aft 27 Apr 1910 (Age ~ 55 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	Abt 1872  [2]
  Family ID	F34	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas BROOKS, Jr.,   b. 14 Apr 1884   d. 1964 (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	05 May 1907  [5]
  Children	1. Vicey Lou Martha BROOKS,   b. 05 Mar 1908, NC d. Abt 27 Mar 1908 (Age 0 years)  [Natural]   2. Bessie BROOKS,   b. 09 Sep 1909, NC d. Abt 1940 (Age 30 years)  [Natural]   3. Media Ellen BROOKS,   b. 05 Mar 1911, NC d. 25 Dec 1961 (Age 50 years)  [Natural]   4. Rosa Eta BROOKS   5. Ada Annie BROOKS,   b. 15 Nov 1914, NC d. Abt 1960 (Age 45 years)  [Natural]   6. Pearl BROOKS   7. James R. BROOKS,   b. 06 Jan 1917, NC d. Nov 1970 (Age 53 years)  [Natural]   8. Samuel Windfield BROOKS,   b. 04 Jul 1919, Wilkes Co., NC d. Abt 1954, BelAir, MD (Age 34 years)  [Natural]   9. Warren G. Harding BROOKS,   b. 12 Jan 1921, Basin Cove, Wilkes Co., NC d. 28 Jul 1952 (Age 31 years)  [Natural]   10. Leve Jane BROOKS,   b. 28 Apr 1922, Springfield, NC d. 29 Dec 2003, York, PA (Age 81 years)  [Natural]   11. Hattie Viola BROOKS,   b. 12 Dec 1923, Weklburg, NC d. 05 Oct 1987 (Age 63 years)  [Natural]   12. Charles Wilbur BROOKS,   b. 16 Apr 1925, NC d. Abt 1955 (Age 29 years)  [Natural]   13. Boyd Raymond BROOKS,   b. 14 Aug 1926, Harford Co., MD d. 14 Sep 1999, Zephyrhills, FL (Age 73 years)  [Natural]   14. Rachel Homer BROOKS,   b. 23 Apr 1928, MD d. 18 Nov 1999 (Age 71 years)  [Natural]   15. Marvel Thomas BROOKS,   b. 11 Apr 1933, Fawn Grove, MD d. 27 Nov 1956 (Age 23 years)  [Natural]
  Family ID	F45	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2015

  
  

• Notes

  1. "Out on a Limb", p.57: Laura Alice (Caudill) Brooks was the seventeenth child born to James Harrison Caudill. At the age of 16, she married Thomas Brooks and for eighteen years they farmed land in North Carolina that today, people would think it impossible to farm. Laura and Thomas were the parents of fifteen children (their first child, Vicey Lou Martha, died when three weeks old and their second child , Bessie (Bonhams) died at the age of 32 years. One of their sons was wounded in WWII and missing in action for seven months. Four of sons have died. Samuel drowned while cleaning a well, Warren broke his neck while swimming, Charles was killed in a car accident, and Marvel was shot.) Laura died at the age of 49 years. Her religion had been Baptist. born 1 February, 1891 Wilkes Co., NC died 1 March, 1940, Whitehall, Md. parents James Harrison Caudill and Sarh Jane Tilley 2.Laura and children listed in 1930 Harford Co., MD census (Thom. not listed?). Two children born in MD oldest 3 1/2 years. Must have moved to MD from NC abt. 1926. 3.1930 Harford Co., MD Census labeled Foresthill Jarrettsville State Road up the side of the sheet.

  
  

• Sources

  [S265] Barbara Johns Groeger, Out on a Limb, (Name: c.1960 Photo Arts Inc. 666 Steel Street El Cajon, Ca.;). [S77] 1900 Wilkes Co., NC Census, Walnut Grove, House #161. [S107] 1930 Harford Co., MD Census, Election District #14, District #15, House #115. [S211] Grave Marker. [S285] Sutton, Betty Jane Atland.