Louise Craft was the daughter of Henry Corbett Craft and Katie Clady Cathey. She was born on December 12, 1919 in Gibson County, Tennessee. Louise only lived to the age of 26 years, so I don’t really have any stories about her.
Louise can be found on the 1920 census in Gibson County, Tennessee. It has her listed as a month old. Her sister, Nettie Sue, is also on the census, listed age 2 years and 10 months. Her parents are listed as “Katty” and “Aubrey”. The family’s surname is misspelled as “Croft”. I have no idea why Henry Corbett is listed as “Aubrey”.
In 1930 Louise is on the District 3, Madison County, Tennessee census. She’s 10 years old and living with her father, listed as Henry C Craft; her mother, listed as Katie Craft; and her siblings: Nettie S (age 13), Maggie N (age 8), Raethi M (misspelled or misread, actually Ruthie M, age 4) and Jessie P (age 1). (Ancestry has them listed as surname “Eraft”)
Louise married AG Harris (born in Gibson County, Tennessee 1915/1916-possibly 2010). Together they had a daughter, Wretha Jane Harris, on January 26, 1939 in Gibson County, Tennessee. At age one month and eleven days, on March 7, 1939, Wretha Jane died in Gibson County, Tennessee of streptococcus endocarditis.
Louise was admitted into John Gaston Hospital, the Memphis City “charity” hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 1945. Four days later, on January 2, 1946 at 8:30pm, Louise passed away from toxemia (“type and cause undetermined”) due to lung abscesses and basilar meningitis.
Louise Craft is buried in Double Springs Cemetery in Gibson County, Tennessee. Also buried in Double Springs is her daughter, Wretha, and her parents, Henry Corbett Craft and Katie Clady Cathey.
