Laura Frances (Crews) Broady (1923 - 1940)

Born 1 Jul 1923 in Barren, Kentucky, United States

Wife of Eddie Jewell Broady — married about 15 Jul 1939 in Goodnight, Barren, Kentucky, United States

Died 28 Dec 1940 at age 17 in Barren, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

When Laura Francis Crews was born on 1 July 1923, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Sylvester Curtis Crews, was 34 and her mother, Laura Alma Miller, was 28. She had 1 son with Eddie Jewell Broady, they were married in 1939. There is an unsourced date of 15 July 1939 for their marriage. She lived in Magisterial District 3 Temple Hill, Barren, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 28 December 1940, two days after her son was born, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Horse Cave, Hart, Kentucky, United States.

Research Notes

• 1940 Find A Grave: Memorial #176277149
• 2011 James B Broady obit, her son [1]

Sources

• 1930 "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMDL-46X : accessed 27 October 2022), Laura Crews in household of Curt Crews, District 6, Barren, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 22, sheet 6B, line 58, family 140, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 732; FHL microfilm 2,340,467.
• 1940 "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K75R-37M : 9 January 2021), Frances Broadey in household of Jewel Broadey, Magisterial District 3 Temple Hill, Barren, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-12, sheet 3B, line 68, family 59, 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 1278.
• 1940 "Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH5-X31K : 11 February 2018), Laura Crews in entry for James B Broady, 26 Dec 1940; citing Birth, Barren, Kentucky, United States, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort.
• 1940 "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSMM-NGK : 2 March 2021), Laura Frances Broady, 1940; citing Death, Barren, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,913,377.