d/o Abraham R. & Margaret Ann (Ackerman) Ackerman
w/o #1 John Murphy (1841-1867)
w/o #2 Garland Clark
m. Nov. 12 1874 • Weld County, Colorado
w/o #3 William George Coburn
m. Dec. 26, 1879 Salina, Saline Co., KS
Frances Ellen was born in Brooke County, Western District of Virginia, now known as West Virginia. As a young girl, Frances' parents moved their family to Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois where they farmed for about 15 years.
In the early 1870s walking beside a covered wagon pulled by a team of oxen, Frances joined her parents, twin sister Margaret Elisabeth, and brother Jerome, his wife and children, moving West to Weld County, Colorado Territory. Her brother Jerome and his family went to Nebraska. Along the front of the Rockies, north of Denver, Her father farmed for two years. After loosing his crop to drought one year and locus the second, Abraham was appointed Post Master to Milltown in 1875. Several years later the family moved to Salina, KS where Mother Margaret Ann died. Here Frances met and in late 1879 married William George Coburn, homesteader and farmer.
Williams' homestead was in the Township of Walnut, Saline County, and here six children were born. After only 11 years, in Sept., 1890, Frances buried her 3rd husband, William. In Nov. of that same year she laid her 8 month old son, Clarence, to rest beside his father. Frances' story being related years later by her future daughter-in-law Alice (Fulton) Coburn, '"Frances was most unfortunate in her relationships.'
Frances struggled for 15 more years to raise her young family of seven. After loosing the farm in 1900 and burying her 3rd son William George Jr. in 1903, Frances succumbed to diabetes in 1905. She was laid to rest in the nearby St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery beside her husband and two sons.
Note: About 1912, Frances' infant twin granddaughters, b. 1912 to youngest son Samuel and wife Alice (Fulton), were laid to rest with her.
w/o #1 John Murphy (1841-1867)
w/o #2 Garland Clark
m. Nov. 12 1874 • Weld County, Colorado
w/o #3 William George Coburn
m. Dec. 26, 1879 Salina, Saline Co., KS
Frances Ellen was born in Brooke County, Western District of Virginia, now known as West Virginia. As a young girl, Frances' parents moved their family to Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois where they farmed for about 15 years.
In the early 1870s walking beside a covered wagon pulled by a team of oxen, Frances joined her parents, twin sister Margaret Elisabeth, and brother Jerome, his wife and children, moving West to Weld County, Colorado Territory. Her brother Jerome and his family went to Nebraska. Along the front of the Rockies, north of Denver, Her father farmed for two years. After loosing his crop to drought one year and locus the second, Abraham was appointed Post Master to Milltown in 1875. Several years later the family moved to Salina, KS where Mother Margaret Ann died. Here Frances met and in late 1879 married William George Coburn, homesteader and farmer.
Williams' homestead was in the Township of Walnut, Saline County, and here six children were born. After only 11 years, in Sept., 1890, Frances buried her 3rd husband, William. In Nov. of that same year she laid her 8 month old son, Clarence, to rest beside his father. Frances' story being related years later by her future daughter-in-law Alice (Fulton) Coburn, '"Frances was most unfortunate in her relationships.'
Frances struggled for 15 more years to raise her young family of seven. After loosing the farm in 1900 and burying her 3rd son William George Jr. in 1903, Frances succumbed to diabetes in 1905. She was laid to rest in the nearby St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery beside her husband and two sons.
Note: About 1912, Frances' infant twin granddaughters, b. 1912 to youngest son Samuel and wife Alice (Fulton), were laid to rest with her.
d/o Abraham R. & Margaret Ann (Ackerman) Ackerman
w/o #1 John Murphy (1841-1867)
w/o #2 Garland Clark
m. Nov. 12 1874 • Weld County, Colorado
w/o #3 William George Coburn
m. Dec. 26, 1879 Salina, Saline Co., KS
Frances Ellen was born in Brooke County, Western District of Virginia, now known as West Virginia. As a young girl, Frances' parents moved their family to Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois where they farmed for about 15 years.
In the early 1870s walking beside a covered wagon pulled by a team of oxen, Frances joined her parents, twin sister Margaret Elisabeth, and brother Jerome, his wife and children, moving West to Weld County, Colorado Territory. Her brother Jerome and his family went to Nebraska. Along the front of the Rockies, north of Denver, Her father farmed for two years. After loosing his crop to drought one year and locus the second, Abraham was appointed Post Master to Milltown in 1875. Several years later the family moved to Salina, KS where Mother Margaret Ann died. Here Frances met and in late 1879 married William George Coburn, homesteader and farmer.
Williams' homestead was in the Township of Walnut, Saline County, and here six children were born. After only 11 years, in Sept., 1890, Frances buried her 3rd husband, William. In Nov. of that same year she laid her 8 month old son, Clarence, to rest beside his father. Frances' story being related years later by her future daughter-in-law Alice (Fulton) Coburn, '"Frances was most unfortunate in her relationships.'
Frances struggled for 15 more years to raise her young family of seven. After loosing the farm in 1900 and burying her 3rd son William George Jr. in 1903, Frances succumbed to diabetes in 1905. She was laid to rest in the nearby St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery beside her husband and two sons.
Note: About 1912, Frances' infant twin granddaughters, b. 1912 to youngest son Samuel and wife Alice (Fulton), were laid to rest with her.
w/o #1 John Murphy (1841-1867)
w/o #2 Garland Clark
m. Nov. 12 1874 • Weld County, Colorado
w/o #3 William George Coburn
m. Dec. 26, 1879 Salina, Saline Co., KS
Frances Ellen was born in Brooke County, Western District of Virginia, now known as West Virginia. As a young girl, Frances' parents moved their family to Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois where they farmed for about 15 years.
In the early 1870s walking beside a covered wagon pulled by a team of oxen, Frances joined her parents, twin sister Margaret Elisabeth, and brother Jerome, his wife and children, moving West to Weld County, Colorado Territory. Her brother Jerome and his family went to Nebraska. Along the front of the Rockies, north of Denver, Her father farmed for two years. After loosing his crop to drought one year and locus the second, Abraham was appointed Post Master to Milltown in 1875. Several years later the family moved to Salina, KS where Mother Margaret Ann died. Here Frances met and in late 1879 married William George Coburn, homesteader and farmer.
Williams' homestead was in the Township of Walnut, Saline County, and here six children were born. After only 11 years, in Sept., 1890, Frances buried her 3rd husband, William. In Nov. of that same year she laid her 8 month old son, Clarence, to rest beside his father. Frances' story being related years later by her future daughter-in-law Alice (Fulton) Coburn, '"Frances was most unfortunate in her relationships.'
Frances struggled for 15 more years to raise her young family of seven. After loosing the farm in 1900 and burying her 3rd son William George Jr. in 1903, Frances succumbed to diabetes in 1905. She was laid to rest in the nearby St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery beside her husband and two sons.
Note: About 1912, Frances' infant twin granddaughters, b. 1912 to youngest son Samuel and wife Alice (Fulton), were laid to rest with her.
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Frances shares a marker with William G. Coburn, her husband. The marker is incorrectly inscribed Frances G.
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