Maude came from pioneering stock. Her mother descended from the Harding/Baker clan. Maude's great-great grandfather was Amos Harding, also great-great grandfather to President Warren G. Harding. Another well-known relative was California pioneer Col. Thomas Baker, founder of Bakersfield. On Maude's father's side, her grandfather's lineage remained a mystery until DNA tests revealed he was a LaFon; Atwell David came by his surname through adoption, when, as a toddler, he was purportedly found abandoned by a well by Charles and Polly David, as they arrived in Indiana from the east.
Maude's parents, Edward and Artie David, pioneered in Missouri before they moved to California, where Maude was born. The Davids were co-founders of present day Bakersfield, specifically in the areas of Rio Bravo and Rosedale. They were a tight-knit, hard-working farming family. Maude could drive a tractor as well as she could don lace.
In 1912, at seventeen years of age, she married twenty-four-year-old Jacob "Jack" Krause, the son of German immigrants from Prussia. Jack and Maude had three children: Lawrence, Lavelle, and Velda.
Maude was an active PTA president in Rosedale. Many newspaper articles in the Bakersfield Echo and Californian tracked her every movement, social and charitable, until a sudden, infectious illness ended her life in 1924, at the age of 29 years old.
My grandfather clearly recalled the sad day all his life, when, at eleven years old, he was pulled out of school to be told that his beloved mother had died. Lavelle and Velda were only seven and three years of age at the time. Maude's children were deeply bereft of the love of their mother.
I have built this page to honor my great-grandmother's memory; Maude and two of her brothers, Edward and Charles, are buried at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield in unmarked graves.
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Maude came from pioneering stock. Her mother descended from the Harding/Baker clan. Maude's great-great grandfather was Amos Harding, also great-great grandfather to President Warren G. Harding. Another well-known relative was California pioneer Col. Thomas Baker, founder of Bakersfield. On Maude's father's side, her grandfather's lineage remained a mystery until DNA tests revealed he was a LaFon; Atwell David came by his surname through adoption, when, as a toddler, he was purportedly found abandoned by a well by Charles and Polly David, as they arrived in Indiana from the east.
Maude's parents, Edward and Artie David, pioneered in Missouri before they moved to California, where Maude was born. The Davids were co-founders of present day Bakersfield, specifically in the areas of Rio Bravo and Rosedale. They were a tight-knit, hard-working farming family. Maude could drive a tractor as well as she could don lace.
In 1912, at seventeen years of age, she married twenty-four-year-old Jacob "Jack" Krause, the son of German immigrants from Prussia. Jack and Maude had three children: Lawrence, Lavelle, and Velda.
Maude was an active PTA president in Rosedale. Many newspaper articles in the Bakersfield Echo and Californian tracked her every movement, social and charitable, until a sudden, infectious illness ended her life in 1924, at the age of 29 years old.
My grandfather clearly recalled the sad day all his life, when, at eleven years old, he was pulled out of school to be told that his beloved mother had died. Lavelle and Velda were only seven and three years of age at the time. Maude's children were deeply bereft of the love of their mother.
I have built this page to honor my great-grandmother's memory; Maude and two of her brothers, Edward and Charles, are buried at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield in unmarked graves.
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