Daisy Lee Lamb was the daughter of Alec Lamb and Ina Carpenter, of Gerard Kentucky.
When Daisy was about 20 she married Jacob Powell, a widowed farmer about 10 years her senior. Jacob had had four children by his previous marriage (three surviving at the time of his remarriage):
Earl T Powell 1916–1916
Mary Francis Powell 1917–1986
Frank Wilfred (Red) Powell 1919–2002
Rosa M Powell 1921–1990
Together they would have seven more children :
Dorothy Powell 1923–1926
Virginia Nadine Powell 1926–2000
Forrest R. Powell 1927–2000
Leona Belle Powell 1929–2011
Earl Leon Powell 1932-2011
Doris Teresa Powell 1934–1997
Shirley Powell 1939–1939
In 1924 Daisy and Jacob relocated to Monroe County Indiana where Jacob rented a farm in the Stanford area. Later they moved to a house South of Bloomington off of Country Club Drive. Jacob worked for the WPA.
Daisy died of complications to her last pregnancy. Her uterus ruptured and without telephone or transportation she lost a great deal of blood before reaching the hospital. She died on the operating table and her infant was delivered after her death. The infant, named Shirley Mae Powell, did not survive. Daisy was 37.
Daisy was buried with her infant daughter in her arms. She shares her tombstone both with Shirley and with her first daughter, Dorothy, who at the age of two, contracted measles which developed into pneumonia.
When Daisy was about 20 she married Jacob Powell, a widowed farmer about 10 years her senior. Jacob had had four children by his previous marriage (three surviving at the time of his remarriage):
Earl T Powell 1916–1916
Mary Francis Powell 1917–1986
Frank Wilfred (Red) Powell 1919–2002
Rosa M Powell 1921–1990
Together they would have seven more children :
Dorothy Powell 1923–1926
Virginia Nadine Powell 1926–2000
Forrest R. Powell 1927–2000
Leona Belle Powell 1929–2011
Earl Leon Powell 1932-2011
Doris Teresa Powell 1934–1997
Shirley Powell 1939–1939
In 1924 Daisy and Jacob relocated to Monroe County Indiana where Jacob rented a farm in the Stanford area. Later they moved to a house South of Bloomington off of Country Club Drive. Jacob worked for the WPA.
Daisy died of complications to her last pregnancy. Her uterus ruptured and without telephone or transportation she lost a great deal of blood before reaching the hospital. She died on the operating table and her infant was delivered after her death. The infant, named Shirley Mae Powell, did not survive. Daisy was 37.
Daisy was buried with her infant daughter in her arms. She shares her tombstone both with Shirley and with her first daughter, Dorothy, who at the age of two, contracted measles which developed into pneumonia.
Daisy Lee Lamb was the daughter of Alec Lamb and Ina Carpenter, of Gerard Kentucky.
When Daisy was about 20 she married Jacob Powell, a widowed farmer about 10 years her senior. Jacob had had four children by his previous marriage (three surviving at the time of his remarriage):
Earl T Powell 1916–1916
Mary Francis Powell 1917–1986
Frank Wilfred (Red) Powell 1919–2002
Rosa M Powell 1921–1990
Together they would have seven more children :
Dorothy Powell 1923–1926
Virginia Nadine Powell 1926–2000
Forrest R. Powell 1927–2000
Leona Belle Powell 1929–2011
Earl Leon Powell 1932-2011
Doris Teresa Powell 1934–1997
Shirley Powell 1939–1939
In 1924 Daisy and Jacob relocated to Monroe County Indiana where Jacob rented a farm in the Stanford area. Later they moved to a house South of Bloomington off of Country Club Drive. Jacob worked for the WPA.
Daisy died of complications to her last pregnancy. Her uterus ruptured and without telephone or transportation she lost a great deal of blood before reaching the hospital. She died on the operating table and her infant was delivered after her death. The infant, named Shirley Mae Powell, did not survive. Daisy was 37.
Daisy was buried with her infant daughter in her arms. She shares her tombstone both with Shirley and with her first daughter, Dorothy, who at the age of two, contracted measles which developed into pneumonia.
When Daisy was about 20 she married Jacob Powell, a widowed farmer about 10 years her senior. Jacob had had four children by his previous marriage (three surviving at the time of his remarriage):
Earl T Powell 1916–1916
Mary Francis Powell 1917–1986
Frank Wilfred (Red) Powell 1919–2002
Rosa M Powell 1921–1990
Together they would have seven more children :
Dorothy Powell 1923–1926
Virginia Nadine Powell 1926–2000
Forrest R. Powell 1927–2000
Leona Belle Powell 1929–2011
Earl Leon Powell 1932-2011
Doris Teresa Powell 1934–1997
Shirley Powell 1939–1939
In 1924 Daisy and Jacob relocated to Monroe County Indiana where Jacob rented a farm in the Stanford area. Later they moved to a house South of Bloomington off of Country Club Drive. Jacob worked for the WPA.
Daisy died of complications to her last pregnancy. Her uterus ruptured and without telephone or transportation she lost a great deal of blood before reaching the hospital. She died on the operating table and her infant was delivered after her death. The infant, named Shirley Mae Powell, did not survive. Daisy was 37.
Daisy was buried with her infant daughter in her arms. She shares her tombstone both with Shirley and with her first daughter, Dorothy, who at the age of two, contracted measles which developed into pneumonia.
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