In Memory of
Laura (Lane) Crawford
Daughter of George and Martha (Doyle) Lane
This is a story told to me by my Great-Aunt Dorthy
Lane. Laura
and Nobe Crawford had a daughter named Faye. When
Faye
was about 9 months old, Laura had a dream
that she would never
live to see her daughter be 1 year
old. She told her mother, Martha
Lane, that if anything happened, she wanted
her to rear her as her
own, because Nobe couldn't take good care
of her. A few weeks
after this, on a snowy winters
night, Laura was sitting by the fire with
Faye on her lap. She
got her skirts too close to the fire and they were
burning. She tried to pat
out the fire, then she took Faye and tossed
her onto the bed. Faye screamed, because
she didn't know what
was happening. When Laura raised her skirt
to put out the fire, it
just flamed up. She went outside in the
snow and started running.
Her Father-in-law chased after her and rolled her in
the snow to
put out the flames. She was
badly burned, but could still write. She
wrote a note and gave
it to her dog, Boy, and told him to take it to her
Mother. He went to her Mother's house.
Even with a room full of
people, Boy took the note straight to her Mother.
Just a while before Laura
died, Boy was outside her window howling.
Laura said, "He knows what
is going to happen." Not long after that,
she died. Faye was
reared as a Lane, and went by the name of Lane
for a long time. Martha had a baby of her
own at that time named
Susie.
She nursed Faye on one side and Susie on the other
Contributed by Edith (Lane) Fuller
Great-niece of Laura and Great Grandaughter of George and Martha Lane.
Contributed on 11 November 1999
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