Daughter of James Nathan Harmon and Ruth Eveland. She married John Reiley Carlisle in Raymond, Lancaster Co., NE on 29 April 1885. Nine children: Elsie Jane, Everett James, Myrtle Elizabeth, Mayme Christina, Bessie Gertrude, Maude Frances, Nettie Ruth "Billie", John Raymond and Alan Wayne Carlisle. Her father was killed when she was 6 years old and her mother raised five children alone in a Nebraska homestead.
In 1967, the State of Nebraska invited Frances Harmon Carlisle as their honored guest at their Centennial celebration because she was born in Nebraska in 1867, the same year that Nebraska became a state. Frances lived to be 104 years old.
In a taped transcript in 1970, she told how she was nearly blinded at about age 6, by measles that settled in her eyes.
Not only did Frances raise her own 9 children, when her daughter Mayme died at the birth of her only child, Frances stood in the gap and raised her grand daughter, Leone. In the earlier mentioned transcript, Frances tells of her education that began at age 11. An aunt helped with her school work and she was a good speller but not good at grammar, she said.
She says of the little town of Woodlawn in Lancaster Co., NE, near where she grew up, there was an elevator and a store. They made flour and there was a small sawmill where they made lumber. Her father gave the community the lumber that built the schoolhouse that was still standing in 1971. (I suspect this was the Cheney Dist.18 where my mother, Alvina Stein, went to school along with Maude, Myrtle and Nettie Carlisle. VDC)
This lady was a true pioneer. She was the embodiment of "the salt of the earth".
In 1967, the State of Nebraska invited Frances Harmon Carlisle as their honored guest at their Centennial celebration because she was born in Nebraska in 1867, the same year that Nebraska became a state. Frances lived to be 104 years old.
In a taped transcript in 1970, she told how she was nearly blinded at about age 6, by measles that settled in her eyes.
Not only did Frances raise her own 9 children, when her daughter Mayme died at the birth of her only child, Frances stood in the gap and raised her grand daughter, Leone. In the earlier mentioned transcript, Frances tells of her education that began at age 11. An aunt helped with her school work and she was a good speller but not good at grammar, she said.
She says of the little town of Woodlawn in Lancaster Co., NE, near where she grew up, there was an elevator and a store. They made flour and there was a small sawmill where they made lumber. Her father gave the community the lumber that built the schoolhouse that was still standing in 1971. (I suspect this was the Cheney Dist.18 where my mother, Alvina Stein, went to school along with Maude, Myrtle and Nettie Carlisle. VDC)
This lady was a true pioneer. She was the embodiment of "the salt of the earth".
Daughter of James Nathan Harmon and Ruth Eveland. She married John Reiley Carlisle in Raymond, Lancaster Co., NE on 29 April 1885. Nine children: Elsie Jane, Everett James, Myrtle Elizabeth, Mayme Christina, Bessie Gertrude, Maude Frances, Nettie Ruth "Billie", John Raymond and Alan Wayne Carlisle. Her father was killed when she was 6 years old and her mother raised five children alone in a Nebraska homestead.
In 1967, the State of Nebraska invited Frances Harmon Carlisle as their honored guest at their Centennial celebration because she was born in Nebraska in 1867, the same year that Nebraska became a state. Frances lived to be 104 years old.
In a taped transcript in 1970, she told how she was nearly blinded at about age 6, by measles that settled in her eyes.
Not only did Frances raise her own 9 children, when her daughter Mayme died at the birth of her only child, Frances stood in the gap and raised her grand daughter, Leone. In the earlier mentioned transcript, Frances tells of her education that began at age 11. An aunt helped with her school work and she was a good speller but not good at grammar, she said.
She says of the little town of Woodlawn in Lancaster Co., NE, near where she grew up, there was an elevator and a store. They made flour and there was a small sawmill where they made lumber. Her father gave the community the lumber that built the schoolhouse that was still standing in 1971. (I suspect this was the Cheney Dist.18 where my mother, Alvina Stein, went to school along with Maude, Myrtle and Nettie Carlisle. VDC)
This lady was a true pioneer. She was the embodiment of "the salt of the earth".
In 1967, the State of Nebraska invited Frances Harmon Carlisle as their honored guest at their Centennial celebration because she was born in Nebraska in 1867, the same year that Nebraska became a state. Frances lived to be 104 years old.
In a taped transcript in 1970, she told how she was nearly blinded at about age 6, by measles that settled in her eyes.
Not only did Frances raise her own 9 children, when her daughter Mayme died at the birth of her only child, Frances stood in the gap and raised her grand daughter, Leone. In the earlier mentioned transcript, Frances tells of her education that began at age 11. An aunt helped with her school work and she was a good speller but not good at grammar, she said.
She says of the little town of Woodlawn in Lancaster Co., NE, near where she grew up, there was an elevator and a store. They made flour and there was a small sawmill where they made lumber. Her father gave the community the lumber that built the schoolhouse that was still standing in 1971. (I suspect this was the Cheney Dist.18 where my mother, Alvina Stein, went to school along with Maude, Myrtle and Nettie Carlisle. VDC)
This lady was a true pioneer. She was the embodiment of "the salt of the earth".
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