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Lara Belle was of Redwine Indian descent.
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Her mother died in childbirth with her. Her sisters blamed her and treated her very poorly.
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When she was a young woman she was talked into being a surrogate mother for one of her sisters. She had a son named Young McCullough. He was treated poorly by the sister and Lara Belle felt used. He traveled around a lot as a young man but eventually settled in Texas. His son James visited her in the 1950's in Friendhip, AR.
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After R. C. died she lived with her grandson Jim Stepp. She raised both her daughter Reba's sons, George & Jim. They moved to Arkadelphia about 1959. After Jim died in 1960 of cancer, she moved in with her daughter Bonnie.
She had a stroke on Dec. 23 & died 4 days later.
In her obit her name is misspelled Laura, and misspelled Bell on her tombstone.
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Unknown publication, about December 29, 1961, Page unknown
Mrs. Laura Belle Boles, Widow of R. C. Boles
(Gazette State News Service)
Arkadelphia, Dec. 27. - Mrs. Laura Belle Cox Boles, aged 82, of Arkadelphia, widow of R. C. Boles, died Wednesday at a hospital here.
She was born at Pikeville, Tenn., and was a Baptist.
Survivors include a son, R. D. Boles of Donaldson (Hot Springs County); three daughters, Mrs. Reba Hickson and Mrs. Emma Allen, both of Stuttgart, and Mrs. Bonnie Rogers of Arkadelphia, 21 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 10 a. m. Friday at the Murry Funeral Chapel here by Rev Connie Norwood. Burial will be at Friendship Cemetery.
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