Birth, Marriage and Family
Maude Farris was born in Morley, Michigan on January 21, 1887. She married Jason Farris, a farmer and laborer, in 1903. She was 16, he was 23. They lived in Angola, Indiana initially, later moving to Coldwater, Michigan in 1923. They had seven children. It was in Angola that she first saw an automobile. According to the AP, over the years, she worked as a factory clerk, a hotel maid, a baker and a restaurant cook, retiring in her 70s. Her husband, Jason Farris, died at age 72 in 1951. Her subsequent marriage to Walter Luse lasted only three years, ending with his death. In her later years she was known as Maud Luse, having changed it legally.
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