Laura Belle (Braden) Stiles (1894 - 1966)

Born 8 Feb 1894 in Wayne Twp., Greene County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Died 30 Apr 1966 at age 72 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania

Biography

Mrs. Laura Belle Stiles, 72, of Waynesburg R. D. 2, died at 6:30 a.m. Saturday April 30, 1966, in the Curry Memorial Home.

She was born Feb. 8, 1894, in Wayne Township near Brave, to the late Andy and Eliza Whitehill Braden.

Mrs. Stiles spent the early part of her life near Brave but for the past several years resided in the Waynesburg area where she was a member of the Washington Street Methodist Church.

Surviving are: her husband, Edward Stiles, whom she married Nov. 2, 1916; her step-father, Jake Simpson, of Wana, W, Va., R. D. 1; one daughter, Winifred, wife of Ellsworth Ankrom, of Scottsdale, ariz.; one son, Wilbur, of Scotch Plains, N. J.; four grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Bertha Phillips, of Fairmont, W. Va.; and several nieces and nephews.

One infant daughter and three sisters, Mary, Estella and Myrtle, are deceased.

(From Find-A-Grave)

Sources

The Whitehills in America (Heroes and Heroines) written and edited by Samuel Milliken Whitehill, Jr., Patricia Whitehill Halter, and Cassius Furman Whitehill, Jr. (Family Heritage Publishers) p. 72

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3ST-BVZ : accessed 25 March 2018), Andrew Braden, Perry Township (west side, excl. Mt Morris Borough), Greene, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 97, sheet 5A, family 84, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,414.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGQB-HGM : accessed 26 March 2018), Jacob H Simpson, Wayne, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 122, sheet 4B, family 71, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1349; FHL microfilm 1,375,362.

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH3Z-B9W : accessed 28 March 2018), Edward D Stiles, Wayne, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 33, sheet 5A, line 1, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2044; FHL microfilm 2,341,778.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQDM-V6Z : accessed 28 March 2018), Laura B Stiles in household of Edward D Stiles, Wayne Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 30-36, sheet 11A, line 36, family 218, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3513.

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