What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

- Rose Kennedy

Sources

1. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.

2. "William M. Sims." Find a Grave. 6 Nov 2011.

<http://www.findagrave.

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79980169, (9 May 2014).

Copy of

Death Certificate

Source 1

Laura M. Alexander (1850-1924)

Gravestone at St. Enoch Lutheran Church Cemetery

Cabarrus County, NC

Source 2