Son of Jesse Frame Sr. and
his wife Nancy Abshire
(both born in Virginia).
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m. # 1. Jane Ranstead.
(Jane died in April of 1866,
age 52 years, 11 months, and 12 days,
and is buried in this cemetery).
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Nathaniel and Jane had eight children:
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1. Alvina (or Almira) Frame.
b. abt. 1840.
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2. Allen J. Frame.
b. Nov. 28, 1841, in
St. Joseph County Indiana.
d. Sept. 25, 1916, in
Berrien County Michigan.
m. Caroline J. Unknown (1847-1926).
Allen served in the Civil War.
He served in Company C. of the
73rd Indiana Infantry.
Allen is buried in the
Oak Ridge Cemetery, in Buchanan, MI.
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3. Neely Frame. b. abt. 1844.
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4. Jemema/Jemima Frame.
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5. Theodore Frame. b. abt. 1850.
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6. Solomon Frame. b. abt. 1853.
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7. Leonard Frame. b. abt. 1855.
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8. Polly Frame.
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In the 1860 census Nathaniel was living
with his wife Jane and family near
Thomasville, in Piney, Oregon, Missouri.
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Nathaniel's first wife Jane died
in 1866, and is buried here
in the Portage Prairie Cemetery,
in St. Joseph County Indiana.
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m. # 2. Harriett Blyler,
on July 4, 1868, in
St. Joseph County Indiana
(when Nathaniel was 56 and 1/2
years of age).
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Nathaniel died at the age of
61 years, 3 months, and 2 days.
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Note: His headstone was last seen
in 3 pieces and laying against the
headstone of his first wife Jane.
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Nathaniel's parents Jesse Frame Sr.
and his wife Nancy, came from Virginia
to Preble County Ohio "about" 1803,
(per: article on their daughter Mary
(Frame) Witter, in "History of Berrien
and Van Buren Counties, Michigan").
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Nathaniel came with his parents and
some of his 12 siblings from Preble
County Ohio, to Portage Prairie, in
Section 22 of Warren township,
(North of South Bend),
St. Joseph County Indiana in 1833.
(Per: "A History of St. Joseph County
Indiana, 1880").
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Nathaniel was elected a county
commissioner in St. Joseph County,
Indiana in 1864 and 1867.
He was also the Vice President of
the St. Joseph County [Indiana]
Agricultural Society ["about" 1867].
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Nathaniel lived in Missouri in 1860,
and then in Warren township,
St. Joseph County Indiana when
his first wife Jane died in 1866
(and also, in the 1870 census).
He later lived at 180 Washington
Street, in South Bend,
St. Joseph County Indiana.
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Note: Nathaniel had a "possible" cousin
also named Nathaniel Frame, born in 1820
in Indiana, and lived in St. Joseph
County Indiana, who was the son of
William Frame (brother of Jesse Frame Sr.?).
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One obituary for Nathaniel was published
in the "St. Joseph Valley Register"
newspaper, in South Bend, Indiana, on
April 10, 1873, page 3, column 4.
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The following obituary was published
in the South Bend Weekly, newspaper
on Saturday, April 5, 1873, page 3:
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SUDDEN DEATH
Our citizens were surprised to hear of
the death of Nathaniel A. Frame, brother
of Isaac Frame, which took place at his
residence in the Fourth Ward, at midnight
Thursday. Mr. Frame moved into the city
from South Warren township about a week
ago. On Wednesday he was seized with a
congestive chill and died in less than
thirty-six hours afterward. He was about
sixty years old. His funeral will take
place from the Dunker church [later known
as the Portage Prairie Church] in German
township, this forenoon at eleven and a
half o'clock. The deceased was one of our
oldest residents.
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Note: In 2013, the headstone for
Nathaniel A. Frame could not be found.
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