Laura Jane Booher

1898-1922 · Pennsylvania

Born 1898, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

Died 1922

Father: Bower Raymond Booher

Mother: Elizabeth Clark

Children include Arthur

Laura Jane Booher was born on 12 February 1898 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Bower Raymond Booher and Elizabeth Clark, called Lizzie. Her brothers and sisters included Raymond Charles, John Morrison, Hope Viola, Bertha Blanche, Harrison Decker and Arthur E. Three more, Margaret Ruth, Mary O. and Earle, died as babies.

On 1 June 1917 she married Earl Gerald Hamman, a son of Elliott and Jennie Hamman. They had four children: Cora Jane, born 1917; Arthur, called Sonny, born 1918; Margaret E., born 1920; and Estall Paul, born in the summer of 1922.

Paul was less than two months old when Laura died at the hospital in Huntingdon on Friday, 29 September 1922. She was 24. One family account gives the cause as typhoid fever. Another says blood poisoning and dates her death 1 September. Earl's mother, Jennie Hamman, took the baby and raised him. When Jennie died in 1963, her obituary listed Paul among her own children.

Laura is buried in Monroe Valley Cemetery at Rockhill Furnace, in the same plot as her daughter Margaret. Her small stone says only "Mother."

Parents

Bower Raymond Booher 1875-1943

Elizabeth Clark (1877-1936)

Children

Arthur Hommond 1918-1980

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 29258225, Earl Gerald Hamman, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29258225

Find a Grave memorial 85990853, Laura Jane Booher Hamman, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85990853

California Death Index, 1940-1997, Arthur Raymond Hammond, died 9 July 1980, San Francisco County, mother's maiden name Boofher, SSN 170-12-8758; californiadeathrecords.com/death/arthur_hammond_born_1918_died_1980_5550223.

Find a Grave memorial 85990853, Laura Jane Booher Hamman, Monroe Valley Cemetery, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; photograph by Karen Smith, 13 October 2013.

Find a Grave memorial 43384952, Bower Raymond Booher, Monroe Valley Cemetery, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; with memorial 43384748, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Clark Booher.

Find a Grave memorials 85990853 (Laura Jane Booher Hamman), 29258225 (Earl Gerald Hamman), 97641544 (Jennie Belle Flasher Hamman, with her obituary from the Daily News, Huntingdon, 18 January 1963).

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Cite: Heirology, "Laura Jane Booher (1898-1922)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/laura-jane-booher-1898-1922-04ce16.