Frank was a complicated man whose choices created an impossibly complicated life according to the many newspaper articles referencing him.
On one hand, he was an ordained minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the other, he was jailed for impersonating a veterinarian. There was also the dichotomy of preaching and teaching about the love of Jesus, but abandoning his wife and children, and then being kicked out of the home of his second wife after three months of marriage.
He had heart, as shown through his secretary position of the Relief Society in Rooks County, Kansas, and efforts on behalf of Temperance and socialism. He also had talent, as shown through his popularity as a circuit preacher and poetic writing. Frank could certainly move people with his words.
Maybe his restlessness was rooted in losing his mother when he was about 15 months old, taken from his father and siblings sometime after that, being removed from Michigan to be fostered by his aunt and uncle (Henry C. & Elizabeth Piper Sheldon) in Kansas, then without adults when his house caught fire at the age of 8. That is a lot of trauma for a child. At some point he changed his name from James to Francis, and he never returned to his family of origin or birthplace. One cannot judge another's restlessness.
Whatever interpretations can be made about Frank's choices, it appears that later in life, he finally got it right, as evidenced by the love of his third wife, congregation, and community.
IN FRANK'S OWN WORDS:
To the Editor of The Chronicle: When I left Burlingame you requested something from my pen occasionally, respecting Smith county. With pleasure I comply.
Smith county lies on the boundary line between Kansas and Nebraska and contains twenty-five townships or nine hundred square miles. Its surface, as far as I have traveled, is gently rolling, like the waves of the restless ocean, and one could imagine that the land, once liquid and tossing, had been congealed by some mighty voice saying, “Peace, be still." I have been to the east and south lines of the county, and within three miles of the west and eight miles of the north lines.
I find the land watered by numerous streams, frilled with a due allowance of timber, such as oak, elm, cottonwood and some minor kinds.
As I rode along the valley of the Solomon river, which flows through the southern part of the county, and across some of the larger streams, imagination painted the day far back in the annals of time, when mighty rivers poured their torrents down these peaceful valleys. The shelvings slopes, covered often with chips of stone though now far back from the water's edge, seems to point to a time when the surges washed these hillsides for their banks, and left them thus in ripples as they hurried to the sea.
Water is easily obtained at ten to forty feet, and the land sloping everywhere affords beautiful locations for towns and private dwellings.
The land today is carpeted with a soft velvet green, partly of short buffalo grass, and partly of tufted blue-stem which is fast crowding out its weaker neighbor. Five years ago it is said, no blue-stem grew here, but now about half the grass is blue-stem.
Beautiful flowers everywhere deck the landscape, rivaling the tame flowers of old lawns in the richness and delicacy of their tints. Bright scarlet cups gather the dew drops beside the purple flowers of the wild pea, and blend with the pure white blossoms, neighbors to the straw colored home of wild bee and butterfly.
The soil is rich and deep, the sod easily broken with two horses, and seems by the agricultural reports of Kansas to be adapted to most of the products of the farmer. Cereals, bulbs and 6 mall fruits are raised with ease. Apples hate not grown to bearing age but the trees thrive. Peaches do well, and while the winter killed them in many counties, the trees and buds were uninjured here. The acreage of wheat and rye for the fall of 1879 and spring of 1879, is as follows: Winter wheat, 6,415; spring wheat, 31,685; rye, 2,638.
The herd law is in force here, and to a person from the eastern states, or fenced counties, the country looks bare, there being no fences in the county except for the purpose of keeping a few head of cattle or horses in pasture. This is thought to be a great help to men of limited means in giving them a chance to hold farms and work them without the expense of fencing. It is bad for the traveler, for roads are all alike and lead in all directions.
I have been amused at the directions received sometimes. "Go right up that draw, onto yon divide, and you will see a house; bear a little to the right and you will strike a road running pretty near northeast. Jest follow that.” I was turned around and did not know north from south, but passed on and when upon yon divide I saw as many as six houses and more than that number of roads, all leading in different directions, so I had to enquire again.
Nearly every quarter section is taken by someone, and houses are going up on nearly every favorable place. Emigration is flowing in, land is constantly changing hands. From $150 to $300 procures a good farm, and there is no expense for fences or taxes, for not a minor part of the land is deeded. It is safe in a man's possession however, if he lives on and improves it, but let him be cautious how he leaves it. The buildings at present are not mansions as one would define it, but as men improve their farms and get time they are putting up good houses.
Building material is cheap, for all over the county, beautiful stone is found just below the surface. It is white, generally from nine inches to two feet thick, and can be sawed into blocks with a common cross-cut saw. A man can put up a good comfortable house for $500, and I have seen houses built and lived in, which cost but five or ten dollars, not counting a man's own work in both cases.
Native lime exists in beds easily reached, and sand is usually found near at hand. This native lime or magnisla washes out of the wall in time unless the building is pointed with burned lime outside.
The crops are very promising this spring, business is good, and Smith county is looking forward to prosperous, happy days in the near future.
Yours respectfully, F. A. Piper.
MOTHER: Eliza Spencer Underhill
FATHER: Robert Piper
1ST WIFE: Helen Elizabeth "Nellie" Loveland
m. 9 Mar 1880 • Burlingame, Osage, Kansas
Divorce announced: 11 Jun 1904, as Frank abandoned the family.
CHILDREN:
1.) Henry Francis Piper
m. Ellonre Loretta "Ella" Walters
2.) Loren Bradford Piper, 1883–1900
age 17 at Leonard's Bridge, New London, Connecticut
3.) Huber Bethume "Harry" Piper
m. Helen M. Jones
4.) Margaret Faith Piper
m. John Wesley Gaines
5.) Howard Ernest Piper
m. Dorothy Marie Shultz
2ND WIFE: Mary Geneva "Jean" Jackson
m. 30 Apr 1908 • Springfield, Greene, Missouri
(Marriage ends when Frank was told to leave the home 3 months later, 6 Aug 1908.)
3rd WIFE: Emma G. Fuller
FURTHER INFORMATION:
1. Letter to the Editor source: newspapers.com; The Osage County Chronicle
Burlingame, Kansas, 05 Jun 1879, Thu • Page 2
2. Like his life, Frank's burial location is also interpreted by research. As his death was over a hundred years ago, cemetery documentation from the time is slim without a headstone. As many of Frank's congregants are buried in this cemetery (he is documented as doing their funerals), and as it is the town where he lived and died, it is an educated guess that Frank is buried in this cemetery. Any information to the contrary would be welcome.
2. Divorce information: "Mrs. Helen E. Piper of Hebron asked for a divorce from Francis A. Piper of Kansas. She said that one morning her husband announced that he was going to leave. He did so and she had not seen him since. A divorce was granted."
source: 11 Jun 1904 Hartford County, Connecticut (unknown newspaper name)
On one hand, he was an ordained minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the other, he was jailed for impersonating a veterinarian. There was also the dichotomy of preaching and teaching about the love of Jesus, but abandoning his wife and children, and then being kicked out of the home of his second wife after three months of marriage.
He had heart, as shown through his secretary position of the Relief Society in Rooks County, Kansas, and efforts on behalf of Temperance and socialism. He also had talent, as shown through his popularity as a circuit preacher and poetic writing. Frank could certainly move people with his words.
Maybe his restlessness was rooted in losing his mother when he was about 15 months old, taken from his father and siblings sometime after that, being removed from Michigan to be fostered by his aunt and uncle (Henry C. & Elizabeth Piper Sheldon) in Kansas, then without adults when his house caught fire at the age of 8. That is a lot of trauma for a child. At some point he changed his name from James to Francis, and he never returned to his family of origin or birthplace. One cannot judge another's restlessness.
Whatever interpretations can be made about Frank's choices, it appears that later in life, he finally got it right, as evidenced by the love of his third wife, congregation, and community.
IN FRANK'S OWN WORDS:
To the Editor of The Chronicle: When I left Burlingame you requested something from my pen occasionally, respecting Smith county. With pleasure I comply.
Smith county lies on the boundary line between Kansas and Nebraska and contains twenty-five townships or nine hundred square miles. Its surface, as far as I have traveled, is gently rolling, like the waves of the restless ocean, and one could imagine that the land, once liquid and tossing, had been congealed by some mighty voice saying, “Peace, be still." I have been to the east and south lines of the county, and within three miles of the west and eight miles of the north lines.
I find the land watered by numerous streams, frilled with a due allowance of timber, such as oak, elm, cottonwood and some minor kinds.
As I rode along the valley of the Solomon river, which flows through the southern part of the county, and across some of the larger streams, imagination painted the day far back in the annals of time, when mighty rivers poured their torrents down these peaceful valleys. The shelvings slopes, covered often with chips of stone though now far back from the water's edge, seems to point to a time when the surges washed these hillsides for their banks, and left them thus in ripples as they hurried to the sea.
Water is easily obtained at ten to forty feet, and the land sloping everywhere affords beautiful locations for towns and private dwellings.
The land today is carpeted with a soft velvet green, partly of short buffalo grass, and partly of tufted blue-stem which is fast crowding out its weaker neighbor. Five years ago it is said, no blue-stem grew here, but now about half the grass is blue-stem.
Beautiful flowers everywhere deck the landscape, rivaling the tame flowers of old lawns in the richness and delicacy of their tints. Bright scarlet cups gather the dew drops beside the purple flowers of the wild pea, and blend with the pure white blossoms, neighbors to the straw colored home of wild bee and butterfly.
The soil is rich and deep, the sod easily broken with two horses, and seems by the agricultural reports of Kansas to be adapted to most of the products of the farmer. Cereals, bulbs and 6 mall fruits are raised with ease. Apples hate not grown to bearing age but the trees thrive. Peaches do well, and while the winter killed them in many counties, the trees and buds were uninjured here. The acreage of wheat and rye for the fall of 1879 and spring of 1879, is as follows: Winter wheat, 6,415; spring wheat, 31,685; rye, 2,638.
The herd law is in force here, and to a person from the eastern states, or fenced counties, the country looks bare, there being no fences in the county except for the purpose of keeping a few head of cattle or horses in pasture. This is thought to be a great help to men of limited means in giving them a chance to hold farms and work them without the expense of fencing. It is bad for the traveler, for roads are all alike and lead in all directions.
I have been amused at the directions received sometimes. "Go right up that draw, onto yon divide, and you will see a house; bear a little to the right and you will strike a road running pretty near northeast. Jest follow that.” I was turned around and did not know north from south, but passed on and when upon yon divide I saw as many as six houses and more than that number of roads, all leading in different directions, so I had to enquire again.
Nearly every quarter section is taken by someone, and houses are going up on nearly every favorable place. Emigration is flowing in, land is constantly changing hands. From $150 to $300 procures a good farm, and there is no expense for fences or taxes, for not a minor part of the land is deeded. It is safe in a man's possession however, if he lives on and improves it, but let him be cautious how he leaves it. The buildings at present are not mansions as one would define it, but as men improve their farms and get time they are putting up good houses.
Building material is cheap, for all over the county, beautiful stone is found just below the surface. It is white, generally from nine inches to two feet thick, and can be sawed into blocks with a common cross-cut saw. A man can put up a good comfortable house for $500, and I have seen houses built and lived in, which cost but five or ten dollars, not counting a man's own work in both cases.
Native lime exists in beds easily reached, and sand is usually found near at hand. This native lime or magnisla washes out of the wall in time unless the building is pointed with burned lime outside.
The crops are very promising this spring, business is good, and Smith county is looking forward to prosperous, happy days in the near future.
Yours respectfully, F. A. Piper.
MOTHER: Eliza Spencer Underhill
FATHER: Robert Piper
1ST WIFE: Helen Elizabeth "Nellie" Loveland
m. 9 Mar 1880 • Burlingame, Osage, Kansas
Divorce announced: 11 Jun 1904, as Frank abandoned the family.
CHILDREN:
1.) Henry Francis Piper
m. Ellonre Loretta "Ella" Walters
2.) Loren Bradford Piper, 1883–1900
age 17 at Leonard's Bridge, New London, Connecticut
3.) Huber Bethume "Harry" Piper
m. Helen M. Jones
4.) Margaret Faith Piper
m. John Wesley Gaines
5.) Howard Ernest Piper
m. Dorothy Marie Shultz
2ND WIFE: Mary Geneva "Jean" Jackson
m. 30 Apr 1908 • Springfield, Greene, Missouri
(Marriage ends when Frank was told to leave the home 3 months later, 6 Aug 1908.)
3rd WIFE: Emma G. Fuller
FURTHER INFORMATION:
1. Letter to the Editor source: newspapers.com; The Osage County Chronicle
Burlingame, Kansas, 05 Jun 1879, Thu • Page 2
2. Like his life, Frank's burial location is also interpreted by research. As his death was over a hundred years ago, cemetery documentation from the time is slim without a headstone. As many of Frank's congregants are buried in this cemetery (he is documented as doing their funerals), and as it is the town where he lived and died, it is an educated guess that Frank is buried in this cemetery. Any information to the contrary would be welcome.
2. Divorce information: "Mrs. Helen E. Piper of Hebron asked for a divorce from Francis A. Piper of Kansas. She said that one morning her husband announced that he was going to leave. He did so and she had not seen him since. A divorce was granted."
source: 11 Jun 1904 Hartford County, Connecticut (unknown newspaper name)
Frank was a complicated man whose choices created an impossibly complicated life according to the many newspaper articles referencing him.
On one hand, he was an ordained minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the other, he was jailed for impersonating a veterinarian. There was also the dichotomy of preaching and teaching about the love of Jesus, but abandoning his wife and children, and then being kicked out of the home of his second wife after three months of marriage.
He had heart, as shown through his secretary position of the Relief Society in Rooks County, Kansas, and efforts on behalf of Temperance and socialism. He also had talent, as shown through his popularity as a circuit preacher and poetic writing. Frank could certainly move people with his words.
Maybe his restlessness was rooted in losing his mother when he was about 15 months old, taken from his father and siblings sometime after that, being removed from Michigan to be fostered by his aunt and uncle (Henry C. & Elizabeth Piper Sheldon) in Kansas, then without adults when his house caught fire at the age of 8. That is a lot of trauma for a child. At some point he changed his name from James to Francis, and he never returned to his family of origin or birthplace. One cannot judge another's restlessness.
Whatever interpretations can be made about Frank's choices, it appears that later in life, he finally got it right, as evidenced by the love of his third wife, congregation, and community.
IN FRANK'S OWN WORDS:
To the Editor of The Chronicle: When I left Burlingame you requested something from my pen occasionally, respecting Smith county. With pleasure I comply.
Smith county lies on the boundary line between Kansas and Nebraska and contains twenty-five townships or nine hundred square miles. Its surface, as far as I have traveled, is gently rolling, like the waves of the restless ocean, and one could imagine that the land, once liquid and tossing, had been congealed by some mighty voice saying, “Peace, be still." I have been to the east and south lines of the county, and within three miles of the west and eight miles of the north lines.
I find the land watered by numerous streams, frilled with a due allowance of timber, such as oak, elm, cottonwood and some minor kinds.
As I rode along the valley of the Solomon river, which flows through the southern part of the county, and across some of the larger streams, imagination painted the day far back in the annals of time, when mighty rivers poured their torrents down these peaceful valleys. The shelvings slopes, covered often with chips of stone though now far back from the water's edge, seems to point to a time when the surges washed these hillsides for their banks, and left them thus in ripples as they hurried to the sea.
Water is easily obtained at ten to forty feet, and the land sloping everywhere affords beautiful locations for towns and private dwellings.
The land today is carpeted with a soft velvet green, partly of short buffalo grass, and partly of tufted blue-stem which is fast crowding out its weaker neighbor. Five years ago it is said, no blue-stem grew here, but now about half the grass is blue-stem.
Beautiful flowers everywhere deck the landscape, rivaling the tame flowers of old lawns in the richness and delicacy of their tints. Bright scarlet cups gather the dew drops beside the purple flowers of the wild pea, and blend with the pure white blossoms, neighbors to the straw colored home of wild bee and butterfly.
The soil is rich and deep, the sod easily broken with two horses, and seems by the agricultural reports of Kansas to be adapted to most of the products of the farmer. Cereals, bulbs and 6 mall fruits are raised with ease. Apples hate not grown to bearing age but the trees thrive. Peaches do well, and while the winter killed them in many counties, the trees and buds were uninjured here. The acreage of wheat and rye for the fall of 1879 and spring of 1879, is as follows: Winter wheat, 6,415; spring wheat, 31,685; rye, 2,638.
The herd law is in force here, and to a person from the eastern states, or fenced counties, the country looks bare, there being no fences in the county except for the purpose of keeping a few head of cattle or horses in pasture. This is thought to be a great help to men of limited means in giving them a chance to hold farms and work them without the expense of fencing. It is bad for the traveler, for roads are all alike and lead in all directions.
I have been amused at the directions received sometimes. "Go right up that draw, onto yon divide, and you will see a house; bear a little to the right and you will strike a road running pretty near northeast. Jest follow that.” I was turned around and did not know north from south, but passed on and when upon yon divide I saw as many as six houses and more than that number of roads, all leading in different directions, so I had to enquire again.
Nearly every quarter section is taken by someone, and houses are going up on nearly every favorable place. Emigration is flowing in, land is constantly changing hands. From $150 to $300 procures a good farm, and there is no expense for fences or taxes, for not a minor part of the land is deeded. It is safe in a man's possession however, if he lives on and improves it, but let him be cautious how he leaves it. The buildings at present are not mansions as one would define it, but as men improve their farms and get time they are putting up good houses.
Building material is cheap, for all over the county, beautiful stone is found just below the surface. It is white, generally from nine inches to two feet thick, and can be sawed into blocks with a common cross-cut saw. A man can put up a good comfortable house for $500, and I have seen houses built and lived in, which cost but five or ten dollars, not counting a man's own work in both cases.
Native lime exists in beds easily reached, and sand is usually found near at hand. This native lime or magnisla washes out of the wall in time unless the building is pointed with burned lime outside.
The crops are very promising this spring, business is good, and Smith county is looking forward to prosperous, happy days in the near future.
Yours respectfully, F. A. Piper.
MOTHER: Eliza Spencer Underhill
FATHER: Robert Piper
1ST WIFE: Helen Elizabeth "Nellie" Loveland
m. 9 Mar 1880 • Burlingame, Osage, Kansas
Divorce announced: 11 Jun 1904, as Frank abandoned the family.
CHILDREN:
1.) Henry Francis Piper
m. Ellonre Loretta "Ella" Walters
2.) Loren Bradford Piper, 1883–1900
age 17 at Leonard's Bridge, New London, Connecticut
3.) Huber Bethume "Harry" Piper
m. Helen M. Jones
4.) Margaret Faith Piper
m. John Wesley Gaines
5.) Howard Ernest Piper
m. Dorothy Marie Shultz
2ND WIFE: Mary Geneva "Jean" Jackson
m. 30 Apr 1908 • Springfield, Greene, Missouri
(Marriage ends when Frank was told to leave the home 3 months later, 6 Aug 1908.)
3rd WIFE: Emma G. Fuller
FURTHER INFORMATION:
1. Letter to the Editor source: newspapers.com; The Osage County Chronicle
Burlingame, Kansas, 05 Jun 1879, Thu • Page 2
2. Like his life, Frank's burial location is also interpreted by research. As his death was over a hundred years ago, cemetery documentation from the time is slim without a headstone. As many of Frank's congregants are buried in this cemetery (he is documented as doing their funerals), and as it is the town where he lived and died, it is an educated guess that Frank is buried in this cemetery. Any information to the contrary would be welcome.
2. Divorce information: "Mrs. Helen E. Piper of Hebron asked for a divorce from Francis A. Piper of Kansas. She said that one morning her husband announced that he was going to leave. He did so and she had not seen him since. A divorce was granted."
source: 11 Jun 1904 Hartford County, Connecticut (unknown newspaper name)
On one hand, he was an ordained minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the other, he was jailed for impersonating a veterinarian. There was also the dichotomy of preaching and teaching about the love of Jesus, but abandoning his wife and children, and then being kicked out of the home of his second wife after three months of marriage.
He had heart, as shown through his secretary position of the Relief Society in Rooks County, Kansas, and efforts on behalf of Temperance and socialism. He also had talent, as shown through his popularity as a circuit preacher and poetic writing. Frank could certainly move people with his words.
Maybe his restlessness was rooted in losing his mother when he was about 15 months old, taken from his father and siblings sometime after that, being removed from Michigan to be fostered by his aunt and uncle (Henry C. & Elizabeth Piper Sheldon) in Kansas, then without adults when his house caught fire at the age of 8. That is a lot of trauma for a child. At some point he changed his name from James to Francis, and he never returned to his family of origin or birthplace. One cannot judge another's restlessness.
Whatever interpretations can be made about Frank's choices, it appears that later in life, he finally got it right, as evidenced by the love of his third wife, congregation, and community.
IN FRANK'S OWN WORDS:
To the Editor of The Chronicle: When I left Burlingame you requested something from my pen occasionally, respecting Smith county. With pleasure I comply.
Smith county lies on the boundary line between Kansas and Nebraska and contains twenty-five townships or nine hundred square miles. Its surface, as far as I have traveled, is gently rolling, like the waves of the restless ocean, and one could imagine that the land, once liquid and tossing, had been congealed by some mighty voice saying, “Peace, be still." I have been to the east and south lines of the county, and within three miles of the west and eight miles of the north lines.
I find the land watered by numerous streams, frilled with a due allowance of timber, such as oak, elm, cottonwood and some minor kinds.
As I rode along the valley of the Solomon river, which flows through the southern part of the county, and across some of the larger streams, imagination painted the day far back in the annals of time, when mighty rivers poured their torrents down these peaceful valleys. The shelvings slopes, covered often with chips of stone though now far back from the water's edge, seems to point to a time when the surges washed these hillsides for their banks, and left them thus in ripples as they hurried to the sea.
Water is easily obtained at ten to forty feet, and the land sloping everywhere affords beautiful locations for towns and private dwellings.
The land today is carpeted with a soft velvet green, partly of short buffalo grass, and partly of tufted blue-stem which is fast crowding out its weaker neighbor. Five years ago it is said, no blue-stem grew here, but now about half the grass is blue-stem.
Beautiful flowers everywhere deck the landscape, rivaling the tame flowers of old lawns in the richness and delicacy of their tints. Bright scarlet cups gather the dew drops beside the purple flowers of the wild pea, and blend with the pure white blossoms, neighbors to the straw colored home of wild bee and butterfly.
The soil is rich and deep, the sod easily broken with two horses, and seems by the agricultural reports of Kansas to be adapted to most of the products of the farmer. Cereals, bulbs and 6 mall fruits are raised with ease. Apples hate not grown to bearing age but the trees thrive. Peaches do well, and while the winter killed them in many counties, the trees and buds were uninjured here. The acreage of wheat and rye for the fall of 1879 and spring of 1879, is as follows: Winter wheat, 6,415; spring wheat, 31,685; rye, 2,638.
The herd law is in force here, and to a person from the eastern states, or fenced counties, the country looks bare, there being no fences in the county except for the purpose of keeping a few head of cattle or horses in pasture. This is thought to be a great help to men of limited means in giving them a chance to hold farms and work them without the expense of fencing. It is bad for the traveler, for roads are all alike and lead in all directions.
I have been amused at the directions received sometimes. "Go right up that draw, onto yon divide, and you will see a house; bear a little to the right and you will strike a road running pretty near northeast. Jest follow that.” I was turned around and did not know north from south, but passed on and when upon yon divide I saw as many as six houses and more than that number of roads, all leading in different directions, so I had to enquire again.
Nearly every quarter section is taken by someone, and houses are going up on nearly every favorable place. Emigration is flowing in, land is constantly changing hands. From $150 to $300 procures a good farm, and there is no expense for fences or taxes, for not a minor part of the land is deeded. It is safe in a man's possession however, if he lives on and improves it, but let him be cautious how he leaves it. The buildings at present are not mansions as one would define it, but as men improve their farms and get time they are putting up good houses.
Building material is cheap, for all over the county, beautiful stone is found just below the surface. It is white, generally from nine inches to two feet thick, and can be sawed into blocks with a common cross-cut saw. A man can put up a good comfortable house for $500, and I have seen houses built and lived in, which cost but five or ten dollars, not counting a man's own work in both cases.
Native lime exists in beds easily reached, and sand is usually found near at hand. This native lime or magnisla washes out of the wall in time unless the building is pointed with burned lime outside.
The crops are very promising this spring, business is good, and Smith county is looking forward to prosperous, happy days in the near future.
Yours respectfully, F. A. Piper.
MOTHER: Eliza Spencer Underhill
FATHER: Robert Piper
1ST WIFE: Helen Elizabeth "Nellie" Loveland
m. 9 Mar 1880 • Burlingame, Osage, Kansas
Divorce announced: 11 Jun 1904, as Frank abandoned the family.
CHILDREN:
1.) Henry Francis Piper
m. Ellonre Loretta "Ella" Walters
2.) Loren Bradford Piper, 1883–1900
age 17 at Leonard's Bridge, New London, Connecticut
3.) Huber Bethume "Harry" Piper
m. Helen M. Jones
4.) Margaret Faith Piper
m. John Wesley Gaines
5.) Howard Ernest Piper
m. Dorothy Marie Shultz
2ND WIFE: Mary Geneva "Jean" Jackson
m. 30 Apr 1908 • Springfield, Greene, Missouri
(Marriage ends when Frank was told to leave the home 3 months later, 6 Aug 1908.)
3rd WIFE: Emma G. Fuller
FURTHER INFORMATION:
1. Letter to the Editor source: newspapers.com; The Osage County Chronicle
Burlingame, Kansas, 05 Jun 1879, Thu • Page 2
2. Like his life, Frank's burial location is also interpreted by research. As his death was over a hundred years ago, cemetery documentation from the time is slim without a headstone. As many of Frank's congregants are buried in this cemetery (he is documented as doing their funerals), and as it is the town where he lived and died, it is an educated guess that Frank is buried in this cemetery. Any information to the contrary would be welcome.
2. Divorce information: "Mrs. Helen E. Piper of Hebron asked for a divorce from Francis A. Piper of Kansas. She said that one morning her husband announced that he was going to leave. He did so and she had not seen him since. A divorce was granted."
source: 11 Jun 1904 Hartford County, Connecticut (unknown newspaper name)
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