Individual Details

Laura Ellen Lockhart

(22 Aug 1871 - 25 Aug 1956)

It was in Sacramento that young Laura Ella contracted malaria, so prevalent in early Sacramento and they left for a drier, mosquito free environment. They settled in Mendocino County south of Mud Springs and near Branscomb when Laura was 16 years old and it was there that she and her three sisters and two brothers were raised. When Laura reached her 20’s, she moved to Westport and worked as a chambermaid in a large white two story house that still stands today. It was during that time that she met young Lafayette Middleton. Lafe and Laura moved to Usal where they were married on Sept. 25, 1895 when Lafayette was 30 and Laura 24 years old. Laura became pregnant in 1896 and she and her husband suffered the trauma of having a still-born child when little Rachel was born dead. When Laura became pregnant again, she decided to return to her aunt’s homestead in Laytonville to have her child since her aunt was a midwife and in the fall Charlotte was born. In 1900 Laura once again made the long trip from Usal back to her family, and at the Lockhart homestead, another healthy young baby girl was born who was named Ruby Irene.

Events

Birth22 Aug 1871Sacramento, California, United States
Marriage25 Sep 1895Mendocino, California, United States - Lafayette DeWitt Middleton
Census (family)4 Jun 1900Long Valley Township, Mendocino, California, United States - Lafayette DeWitt Middleton
Census (family)26 Apr 1910Round Valley Township, Mendocino, California, United States - Lafayette DeWitt Middleton
Census (family)6 Feb 1920Long Valley, Mendocino, California, United States - Lafayette DeWitt Middleton
Census (family)1930Willits, Mendocino, California, United States - Lafayette DeWitt Middleton
Census1940Laytonville, Mendocino, California, United States
Death25 Aug 1956Mendocino, California, United States
BurialLaytonville Cemetery, Laytonville, Mendocino, California, United States

Families

SpouseLafayette DeWitt Middleton (1865 - 1940)
ChildLaura Charlotte Middleton (1898 - 1972)
ChildRuby Irene Middleton (1901 - 1991)
ChildJohn Franklin Middleton (1904 - 1954)
ChildNellie Zetella Middleton (1907 - 2010)
ChildEvelyn R. Middleton (1913 - 1949)
FatherBenjamin Franklin (Pomeroy) Lockhart (1843 - 1929)
MotherMary Lucretia Cull (1847 - 1920)
SiblingJoseph Albert Lockhart (1870 - 1935)
SiblingLucretia Mary "Lulu" Lockhart (1871 - 1936)
SiblingAnna Laurie Lockhart (1875 - 1929)
SiblingBenjamin Lockhart (1877 - 1891)
SiblingMartha Keith Lockhart (1879 - 1968)
SiblingEdna Lockhart (1884 - 1884)

Notes

Birth

1871, August 22--Wife of B. Lockhart, of a daughter

Census (family)

next page from Laura's parents.

15, 15 Middleton, Lafe D, Head, WM July 1866, 34, Married 4 yrs, CA IL IL, Laborer, rent house.
Laura E, Wife, WF, Aug 1871, 28, M-4, 1 child born & living, CA ME NY

Census (family)

SD 2, ED 64 sheet 7B
Slough Road
Middleton, Lafayette D. Head, 44, M1-14 years, CA, KY, OH, General Farming Rent
Laura E. Wife, 37, M1-14 years, 4 children born & living, CA, IL, NY
Laura C. Daughter, 11
Ruby I. Daughter, 9
John F. Son, 6
Nellie S. Daughter 2
Grime, Fred F. Boarder 28, S, Arizona, Oregon, Utah.Farm labor working out -wages

Census (family)

243, 243, Middleton, Lafe D, Head, Rent, MW, 54, Married, CA, KY, OH, Tie Worker? Tie lawf?laruf?
Laura E, Wife, FW, 48, married, CA ME NY,
John F, Son, MW, 15, single, CA, CA CA
Nellie Z, Daughter, FW, 12, single, CA, CA CA
Evelyn R, Daughter, FW, 6, single, CA, CA CA

Census (family)

Head Lafayett Middleton M 66 California
Wife Laura E Middleton F 58 California
Daughter Nellie Z Middleton F 22 California
Daughter Evelyn Middleton F 16 California

Census

Head Laura D Middleton F 68 California, widowed
Nephew Fred W Grimes M 59 Arizona, single

Death

MIDDLETON LAURA ELLA Birth: 08/22/1871 HULL LOOKHART F CALIFORNIA MENDOCINO Death: 08/25/1956 85 years

Endnotes

1. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.

2. "Sacramento County statistics marriages, births & deaths during the year 1871," database, (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sacmd71.htm: accessed 17 December 2009), Lockhart; citing Sacramento Daily Union, Monday, January 1, 1872.

3. , "Laytonville Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2011), .

4. "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 8 May 2013), Lafayette D Middleton and Laura E Lockhart, 1895..

5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1900 > California > MENDOCINO > LONG VALLEY TWP Series: T623 Roll: 93 Page: 98 .

6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1910 > California > MENDOCINO > ROUND VALLEY TWP Series: T624 Roll: 88 Page: 209.

7. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1920 > California > MENDOCINO > LONG VALLEY Series: T625 Roll: 121 Page: 115.

8. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), Year: 1930; Census Place: Willits, Mendocino, California; Roll: 177; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 782.0..

9. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.

10. , "Laytonville Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2011), .

11. , "Laytonville Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2011), .