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Descendants of John Franklin
Generation 1
1. JOHN
1 FRANKLIN was born on 1766? in North Carolina. He died before 1851. He married
SARAH "SARY" GREEN. She was born before 1770. She died before 1851.
Notes for John Franklin:
John Franklin is listed as land grantor from Limestone County, Alabama Territory on 14 Jan
1820. At this time, it is not known if this land grantor is the same John Franklin of this Franklin line.
John Franklin of this line was born in the 1760s or 1770s and married Sary Green, a
Cherokee woman.
Notes for Sarah "Sary" Green: Great Great Granddaughter Sarah Jane (Franklin) Reece declared in 1906 that her grandmother Sarah Green was the daughter of Gardner Green, a full-blooded Indian. Her father, Anderson Green Franklin, also declared that "Sary" was his great grandmother. She married John Franklin and was the mother of six known children, possibly more. Her descendants declared that she had died prior to 1851.
John Franklin and Sarah "Sary" Green had the following children: 2. i. ABRAM "ABE"
2 FRANKLIN was born in 1786 in North Carolina. He died in Jan 1867 in
Cherokee County, Georgia. He married ELIZABETH ANDERSON. She was born in 1786
in South Carolina. She died about 1851 in Georgia.
3. ii. JACOB FRANKLIN was born in 1792 in North Carolina. He died about 1851 in Hot House,
Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. He married Margaret Swinney in Cherokee
County, North Carolina. She was born about 1795 in North Carolina. She died
between 1860-1870 in North Carolina.
4. iii. THOMAS FRANKLIN was born about 1798 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA. He
died in Coosa, Union, Georgia, United States. He married MRS. THOMAS FRANKIN. She
was born about 1795. She died between 1842-1850 in probably Georgia.
5. iv. JOHN FRANKLIN JR. was born between 1780-1795 in probably North Carolina. He died
before 1851. He married SALLIE SWINNEY. She was born about 1780 in Buncombe
County, North Carolina. She died before 1850.
v. ISAAC FRANKLIN was born between 1780-1795 in North Carolina. He died
after 1908.
6. vi. WILLIAM FRANKLIN SR. was born between 1780-1790 in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. He died before 1850 in Wolf Creek, Cherokee County, North Carolina. He
married ELISABETH LONG. She was born in 1790 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
Generation 2
2. ABRAM "ABE"
2 FRANKLIN (John
1) was born in 1786 in North Carolina. He died in Jan 1867 in
Cherokee County, Georgia. He married ELIZABETH ANDERSON. She was born in 1786 in
South Carolina. She died about 1851 in Georgia.
Notes for Abram "Abe" Franklin:
In 1830, Abram Franklin was living in Habersham County, Georgia with his wife, 5 sons and 1
daughter. He, his wife Elizabeth, and two youngest sons were living next door to his sons Elias
Generation 2 (con't) and Anderson in Union County in 1850. He was living in Gilmore County in 1851. His son
Anderson declared that he died about January 1867. Abram would have been about 81 years
old. No will or further record as been found in numerous counties of northern Georgia for him.
Abram "Abe" Franklin and Elizabeth Anderson had the following children: 7. i. ELIAS
3 FRANKLIN was born about 1817 in South Carolina. He died in 1876 in
Alabama, United States. He married HANNAH.
ii. LINDA "LYNA" FRANKLIN was born between 1820-1825.
8. iii. WILLIAM R. "WILL" FRANKLIN was born in 1828 in Georgia. He died in 1884 in Benton Co,
Arkansas. He married AMY VIANNA LEDFORD. She was born on 10 Apr 1830 in
Buncombe, Rutherford Co, North Carolina. She died on 24 Aug 1892 in Turnersville,
Coryell Co, Texas.
9. iv. ANDERSON GREEN FRANKLIN was born on 28 Feb 1823 in Jackson County, South
Carolina. He died in 1911 in Georgia. He married Elizabeth Jane Bryan, daughter of
Tarance Bryan and MaryPolly Shade on 25 Nov 1849 in Cherokee County, Georgia.
She was born in Jan 1827 in Forsythe County, Georgia. She died between 1906-1910
in Georgia.
10. v. BIRD FRANKLIN was born in Mar 1828 in Georgia. He died on 25 Jul 1901 in Gum
Springs, St Clair, Alabama. He married (1) ELIZABETH LUCINDA "JANE" JONES, daughter
of Edmond Jones and Cynthia Phillips on 07 Jan 1858 in Saint Clair County,
Alabama. She was born in 1835 in St. Clair Co, Alabama. She died on 22 May 1871
in St. Clair Co, Alabama. He married (2) HENRIETTA S HENSON on 10 Jun 1847 in
Carroll, Georgia, United States. She was born in 1830 in Georgia, United States. She
died in 1858 in Alabama, United States.
vi. BENNETT FRANKLIN was born in 1829 in Georgia.
3. JACOB2 FRANKLIN (John
1) was born in 1792 in North Carolina. He died about 1851 in Hot House,
Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. He married Margaret Swinney in Cherokee County, North Carolina. She was born about 1795 in North Carolina. She died between 1860-1870 in North Carolina.
Notes for Jacob Franklin: The State of North Carolina issued a preemption, No. 1543 Certificate No. 186 to Jacob Franklin for 100 acres situate on the waters of Hot House Creek. Said preemption is recorded in Book G-7, page 3 of the Cherokee County Registry. Recorded March 6, 1854. Land records show that John J. Franklin sold Charles Raper Preemption No. 1543 containing 100 acres, recorded in Book H-8 Page 52, December 18, 1857 of the Cherokee County Registry. This being the same land as that issued to Jacob Franklin as heretofore set out. A deed was also signed by Isaac Franklin for the same land and designated as being the estate of Jacob Franklin, deceased. Isaac Franklin to Charles Raper deed recorded in Book H-8 page 403, January 29, 1858. ---- The following biography from Franklin History report by descendant Patrick Franklin of Tulsa, 1998:
Jacob Franklin Sr. married Margaret Swinney in Cherokee County, North Carolina between Murphy
and Andrews N.C. in what is known as the Valley River Section. In later years they moved westward to
the foot of a mountain which today carries his name and is known as "Franklin Mountain". There they
reared five boys and two girls. The girls names were Sarah and Calsina. The boys names were John,
Ben, Sylvester, Jacob Jr., and Earl. Calsina married a Franklin First cousin of hers and Sarah married
Charles Raper. Charles was hanged by a mob at or near the old Franklin home. He was hanged from
a loom on which they weaved cloth in those days. This happened during the Civil War. Jacob and
Margaret died at the old homestead and are buried in a
Generation 2 (con't) family cemetery, on a hill near the old homesite. This cemetery had 15 or 16 graves most of
whom were Franklins. The people in that community have recently built a new Baptist church
known as Simonds Chapel just across the road from the cemetery and new graves are being
added. The Franklins left the old homesite with about six hundred acres of land and settled in
other parts of the country. The Rev. A. R. Franklin of Soddy, Tennessee, who is a Baptist
minister, is a descendant of Jacob Franklin.
Jacob Franklin and Margaret Swinney had the following children: 11. i. JACOB
3 FRANKLIN JR. was born in Sep 1830 in North Carolina. He died in 1906 in Hot
House, Cherokee County, North Carolina. He married (1) MARY ADELINE PAINE in
Monroe, Union Union, North Carolina (near Hopewell Baptist Church). She was born
about 1840 in North Carolina. She died in Hot House, Cherokee, North Carolina. He
married (2) MARY MARTIN in 1896. She was born in Jan 1855 in North Carolina. He
married (3) MARY ETTA LUNSFORD, daughter of John H. Lunsford and Mary Matilda
Pendergrass in Cherokee County, North Carolina. She was born on 28 Nov 1856 in
Macon County, North Carolina. She died on 11 Jan 1926 in Murphy, Cherokee Co.,
North Carolina.
ii. EARLY FRANKLIN was born in 1838.
iii. SYLVESTER FRANKLIN was born in 1836.
iv. ISAAC FRANKLIN was born in 1828.
v. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in 1832.
vi. HANNAH (CALSINA) FRANKLIN. She married MR. FRANKLIN.
12. vii. SARAH FRANKLIN was born in 1834 in North Carolina. She died in 1880 in Kentucky. She
married Charles Raper, son of Jesse Raper and Mary "Polly" McDaniel in 1849 in
Union,Georgia. He was born in 1825 in Hot House, Cherokee, North Carolina. He died
in 1863 in Hot House, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
4. THOMAS2 FRANKLIN (John
1) was born about 1798 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA.
He died in Coosa, Union, Georgia, United States. He married MRS. THOMAS FRANKIN. She was
born about 1795. She died between 1842-1850 in probably Georgia.
Thomas Franklin had the following child:
i. SAMUEL3 FRANKLIN was born in 1849 in Georgia.
Notes for Mrs. Thomas Frankin: Thomas Franklin appears as head of household in the 1850 Union County, Georgia census. This researcher assumes that he is widowed; in which case Mrs. Franklin would have died during or after the birth of the last child in the household, which was Rosetta, born in 1842 or 1843. Thus, Mrs. Franklin's death date is estimated to be between 1842 and 1850.
Thomas Franklin and Mrs. Thomas Frankin had the following children: 13. ii. ROSETTA C. FRANKLIN was born in Oct 1841 in Georgia. She died on 06 May 1911 in
Russell County, Alabama, USA. She married WILLIAM JACKSON DEAN. He was born in
1852.
iii. LUCINDA FRANKLIN was born in 1823 in South Carolina.
iv. MARTHA FRANKLIN was born in 1825 in South Carolina.
14. v. IVAN PIERCE FRANKLIN was born in 1834 in Habersham County, Georgia, USA. He
Generation 2 (con't) died on 12 Aug 1863 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA. He married Martha
Cassandra Allison in 1857 in White County, Georgia. She was born on 01 Apr
1829 in Habersham County, Georgia, USA. She died on 20 Dec 1886 in White
County, Georgia.
vi. MARY FRANKLIN was born in 1840 in South Carolina.
5. JOHN2 FRANKLIN JR. (John
1) was born between 1780-1795 in probably North Carolina. He died
before 1851. He married SALLIE SWINNEY. She was born about 1780 in Buncombe County,
North Carolina. She died before 1850.
John Franklin Jr. and Sallie Swinney had the following children:
i. MALINDA3 FRANKLIN was born before 1826.
16. ii. WILLIAM FRANKLIN was born before 1826 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. He died
before 1860. He married MARY J. FRANKLIN. She was born about 1820 in Cherokee
County, North Carolina. She died in 1864.
iii. CELINA FRANKLIN was born before 1826.
iv. MARTHA FRANKLIN was born in 1829 in Georgia.
v. SARAH ANN FRANKLIN was born in 1832 in Georgia.
16. vi. SABRA ANN FRANKLIN was born in 1833 in Union County, Georgia. She died in 1869 in
Georgia, USA. She married Lynch T Dover in 1856 in Gilmer, Georgia, USA. He was
born in 1834 in Burke, North Carolina, United States. He died in Fannin, Georgia,
United States.
vii. NANCY FRANKLIN was born in 1837 in Georgia.
viii. HANNAH FRANKLIN was born in 1838 in Georgia.
ix. MARY J. FRANKLIN was born in 1843 in North Carolina. She died in 1864.
x. LINA "LINEY" FRANKLIN was born in 1844 in North Carolina.
17. xi. WILLIAM J. FRANKLIN SR was born about 1824 in North Carolina. He died in 1897 in
Murray County, Georgia. He married (1) LOUISA JOSEPHEN "JOSY" WITZEL, daughter of
Ebenezer Witzel and Elizabeth on 18 Dec 1858 in Fannin County, Georgia. She was
born about 1841 in Georgia. She died in 1898 in Georgia. He married MRS. WILLIAM J. FRANKLIN.
6. WILLIAM2 FRANKLIN SR. (John
1) was born between 1780-1790 in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. He died before 1850 in Wolf Creek, Cherokee County, North Carolina. He married
ELISABETH LONG. She was born in 1790 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
William Franklin Sr. and Elisabeth Long had the following children:
i. ELIZA3 FRANKLIN was born about 1815 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
ii. POLLY FRANKLIN was born in 1820 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
19. iii. MARY J. FRANKLIN was born about 1820 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. She died in
1864. She married WILLIAM FRANKLIN. He was born before 1826 in Cherokee County,
North Carolina. He died before 1860.
Generation 2 (con't)
iv. SUSAN FRANKLIN was born about 1825 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
19. v. WILLIAM JACOB FRANKLIN was born in 1826 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. He died
on 06 Mar 1902 in Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co, Ga.. He married Mary Jane Cross in
1851. She was born about 1833 in Tennessee. She died on 01 Aug 1902 in
Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia.
vi. JOHN FRANKLIN was born about 1827 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
vii. WESLEY FRANKLIN was born in 1835 in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
Generation 3
7. ELIAS
3 FRANKLIN (Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born about 1817 in South Carolina. He died in 1876
in Alabama, United States. He married HANNAH.
Elias Franklin had the following child:
i. JOSIAH B.4 FRANKLIN was born in 1854 in North Carolina.
Elias Franklin and Hannah had the following children:
ii. JACOB A. FRANKLIN was born in 1848 in Georgia.
20. iii. WILLIAM HENRY FRANKLIN was born in May 1850 in Union County, Georgia. He died on
07 Jun 1922 in St Elmo, Hamilton Co, Tennessee. He married Julia Ann Franklin,
daughter of William R. "Will" Franklin and Amy Vianna Ledford about 1875. She was
born on 23 Dec 1863 in Georgia. She died on 30 Aug 1892 in Coryell County, Texas.
iv. BENNETT FRANKLIN was born in 1853 in Georgia.
21. v. MARGARET E. FRANKLIN was born in 1860 in North Carolina. She married Martin V.
Stamey on 20 Dec 1878 in Burke County, North Carolina. He was born in Dec 1833 in
North Carolina. He died on 04 Mar 1914 in Silver Creek Township, , North Carolina,
USA.
vi. LINNIE A. FRANKLIN was born in 1864 in Georgia.
vii. JAMES D. FRANKLIN was born in 1866 in Georgia.
8. WILLIAM R. "WILL"3 FRANKLIN (Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born in 1828 in Georgia. He died in
1884 in Benton Co, Arkansas. He married AMY VIANNA LEDFORD. She was born on 10 Apr 1830 in Buncombe, Rutherford Co, North Carolina. She died on 24 Aug 1892 in Turnersville, Coryell Co, Texas.
Notes for William R. "Will" Franklin: William R. "Will" Franklin was born about 1828 in Georgia. He was a son of Abam and
Elizabeth (Anderson) Franklin. He was married to Amy Vianna Ledford. Their six children,
Miriam, Amy, William, Benjamin, John and Juan, were born between 1859 and 1872.
William was a laborer living with the Moses Anderson family in the 1880 Union County,
Georgia census. Moses was probably a maternal uncle.
His nephew, John B. Franklin, noted that William died about 1887 and was a resident of Siloam
Springs, Arkansas. Three of his children (William L., Benjamin C., and Juan) all declared that
their father died in August 1886.
Generation 3 (con't)
Notes for Amy Vianna Ledford: Amy Vianna Ledford was the daughter of Benjamin and Grace Ledford. She was born April 10, 1830 in North Carolina. She married Will Franklin and was the mother of four sons and two daughters. Three of her sons declared that she died in August 1890; however, family researchers say she died 24 August 1892 in Turnersville, Texas.
William R. "Will" Franklin and Amy Vianna Ledford had the following children:
i. WILTON YOUNG4 FRANKLIN was born on 30 Aug 1853 in Union, Georgia. He died
on 11 May 1862 in Union, Georgia.
ii. JOSIAH C FRANKLIN was born on 02 Oct 1854 in Union, Georgia. He died on 31
May 1862 in Union, Georgia.
iii. MARTHA E FRANKLIN was born on 25 Oct 1857 in Union, Georgia. She died on
15 Jul 1862 in Union, Georgia.
iv. MARIAM VIOLA FRANKLIN was born on 17 May 1859 in Georgia. She died on 11
Mar 1941 in Union, Georgia, United States. She married MR. WILLIAMS.
v. AMY VIRGINIA FRANKLIN was born on 16 Mar 1861 in Union, Georgia, United
States. She married MR. STEVENS.
22. vi. JULIA ANN FRANKLIN was born on 23 Dec 1863 in Georgia. She died on 30 Aug 1892 in
Coryell County, Texas. She married William Henry Franklin about 1875. He was born
in May 1850 in Union County, Georgia. He died on 07 Jun 1922 in St Elmo, Hamilton
Co, Tennessee.
23. vii. WILLIAM LAFAYETTE FRANKLIN was born on 10 May 1866 in Union County, Georgia. He
died on 14 Oct 1941 in Union, Georgia, United States. He married MARY
ROBERTA.
24. viii. BENJAMIN CRUMP FRANKLIN was born about 1868 in Georgia. He died on 01 Aug
1959 in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States.
ix. JOHN FRANKLIN was born on 09 May 1870 in Georgia.
25. x. JUAN WILBURN FRANKLIN was born on 05 Jan 1872 in Union Co, Georgia. He died on 11
Feb 1962 in Monahans, Ward, Texas, USA. He married Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie"
Featherson on 03 Nov 1901 in Coryell Co, Texas. She was born on 03 Sep 1885 in
Texas. She died on 25 Sep 1974 in DeLeon, Comanche Co, Texas.
9. ANDERSON GREEN3 FRANKLIN (Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 28 Feb 1823 in Jackson County,
South Carolina. He died in 1911 in Georgia. He married Elizabeth Jane Bryan, daughter of Tarance Bryan and MaryPolly Shade on 25 Nov 1849 in Cherokee County, Georgia. She was born in Jan 1827 in Forsythe County, Georgia. She died between 1906-1910 in Georgia.
Notes for Anderson Green Franklin: Anderson Green Franklin declared that he was born in Jackson County, South Carolina in 1823.
Currently there is no county by that name in South Carolina; however, there is one in North
Carolina. It is unknown when his family moved to northern Georgia, however, he was in Georgia
by 1840. He was named for his grandparents, the Andersons and Greens. It is presumed that he
met and married his wife, Elizabeth Jane Bryant, in her birth state of Georgia. They married in
Cherokee County on November 25, 1849. By 1850, they were living in Union County, Georgia
with her sister (listed as Sofrano Bryant on the census). Twenty-six year old Anderson was living
Generation 3 (con't) next door to his parents, Abram and Elizabeth Franklin and his brother Elias. Five of his twelve
children had been born by 1861 and Anderson was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the
Confederacy in the State of Georgia Militia during the Civil War . He was discharged in 1864.
By 1880, he and Jane were living in Pickens County. Anderson was 57, daughter Adaliga S. (Sophronia) was 16, son Anderson G. was 14, daughter Amanda was 11 and William was 8. His son
Anderson (Jr.) recalled that once a year Anderson would go to the nearby city of Rome by horse and
wagon where they would trade corn, cotton, tobacco or peanuts for sugar and other groceries. They
drove a team of oxen to church. A pension for his Confederate war service was granted and Anderson
appears on the pensioner rolls. In 1900, he was 77 and Elizabeth J. was 73; both were living in Murray
County, another county in northern Georgia. They were living with their daughter Lean (age 36) [this
should have read Adalgia Sophronia] and daughter Amanda Adcox, (age 31) who had a four year old
son Abraham. In 1908, Anderson Green Franklin submitted a claim of descendancy from an Indian
ancestor: his great-grandfather, Gardner Green. He declared that he was guardian of his grandson, Abraham Adcox, at that time. By 1910, Anderson had been widowed and is enumerated with his grandson, Sam Reese, in Gordon County. He appeared on the pension rolls until 1911; his youngest child (William E.) collected his payments for him. No record exists as to his actual date of death; it would have occurred in 1911 as there were no further payments after that year. His pension record does not record date or place of death. No gravesite has been located for either Anderson or his wife; however, grandson Harley Reese thought his wife as buried at Reeves Station and probably Anderson was buried next to her. [source: descendant Margie (Allred) von Marenholtz] Notes for Elizabeth Jane Bryan: Little is known about Jane. Family lore had her related closely with William Jennings Bryan's line;
however, this connection to the famous orator has never been verified. She did have a sister, Sofrona,
who was living with she and her husband, Anderson Franklin, in 1850 in Union County, Georgia.
Anderson and Jane Bryant had married in Cherokee County a year earlier. Jane named a daughter
Sophronia after her sister. Some of her grandchildren remember her name as being Jane; however,
those who submitted Eastern Cherokee claim applications listed her as Elisabeth Jane . In 1908, her
husband declared that her name was Elizabeth Jane Bryant on an application form. Five of her
children affirm that her last name was Bryan and that she was the daughter of Tarrence Bryan.
Records show that she had at least seven brothers and sisters. The mother of 12 children, Jane saw
at least ten grow to adults. Son Thomas died young as he appears in the 1870 census but not the
1880 and his grown siblings do not mention him by name. Son Anderson (Jr.) left home while a young
man, went to Texas and Oklahoma and raised twelve children of his own. Sons John and Abe went on
to start new lives in Oregon, with John ending up as a bachelor in Washington state and Abe returning
to Texas. The youngest, William E. Franklin, stayed in Georgia and raised his family there. The
daughters appear to have stayed close also. Jane died between 1906 and the 1910 census; her
actual grave site is unknown; however, grandson Harley Reese thinks she was buried in Reeves
Station. [bio by Margie von Marenholtz]. Anderson Green Franklin and Elizabeth Jane Bryan had the following children:
i. JOSHUA4 FRANKLIN was born on 08 Sep 1850 in Georgia. He died before 1860.
Notes for Joshua Franklin: Joshua was the oldest of twelve children of Anderson Green Franklin and
Elizabeth Jane Bryan. His birth is mentioned in his sister Sarah's Eastern
Cherokee application of 1906; however, his death is shown as "date not
recorded". He is not listed as being with his family in the 1860 census, where he
would've been ten years old; it is probable he died before this time. Nothing
further is known of Joshua; his other siblings (John, William, Mary, and Lynia) did
not mention him in their applications. 26. ii. ABRAHAM TORENCE FRANKLIN was born on 19 Mar 1852 in North Carolina. He died on 20
Jun 1941 in Terrell, Kaufman, Texas, United States. He married Sarah Elizabeth
"Lizzie" Tapp, daughter of Hugh L. Tapp and Pheobe Agnes Samples on 01 Nov 1875
in Kaufman County, Texas. She was born on 22 Aug 1860 in Georgia. She died on 13
Dec 1933 in Wills Point, Van Zandt , Texas.
Generation 3 (con't)
iii. JOHN B. FRANKLIN was born on 09 Jul 1853 in Cherokee (now Gilmore) County,
Georgia. He died on 22 Feb 1932 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.
Notes for John B. Franklin:
John and his older brother, Abe, stopped in Texas to visit their brother, Anderson while on their way to Oregon. John was living in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington in 1907 when he submitted an application for participation in the fund for the Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees. He declared he was unmarried and was the son of Anderson Green Franklin and Elisebeth Jane Bryan. John does not appear in the 1889 Pierce County, Washington, Assessor's Census and his death certificate indicated that he had lived in Tacoma since 1890.
He mentioned that he had moved from 1953 South East Street and had relocated to 1515 South Tacoma Avenue by April 30, 1907. He relocated again by April 16th, 1908 to 405-1/2 East 25th Street. A year later, on April 7, 1908, he moved to 406 East 26th Street. By May 1910, he was a lodger on Pacific Avenue. In 1920, he was enumerated by the census taker as a roomer in the Sylvan Apartments on St. Helen's Avenue in Tacoma. He was earning a wage as a laborer in a restaurant and was 67 years of age. According to his death certificate, he had been a helper at a restaurant from the age of 54 to 74. He passed away on 22 February 1932 in Tacoma at the age of 79. His death certificate indicated that he died as a result of a head injury from an automobile accident at 10 p.m. No parentage was listed on the vital record so a correction was submitted by John's great great niece, Margie (Allred) von Marenholtz in 2000. No obituary appeared in the local paper; however, funeral arrangements were announced as being held at the Cassedy-Allen mortuary with a Christian Science service to be read. Burial was at the Mountain View Cemetery in Tacoma.
His dark granite tombstone reads: John B. Franklin
1853-1932 Born in Gilmore County, Georgia
27. iv. LYNIA "LINI" ABIGAIL FRANKLIN was born on 10 Mar 1855 in Georgia. She died on 25 Dec
1895 in Walker County, Georgia. She married WILLIAM HENRY REESE. He was born
on 22 Jun 1862 in Pickens County, Georgia. He died in 1936. 28. v. MARY ELISABETH FRANKLIN was born on 19 Jan 1857 in Gilmer County, Georgia. She died
on 23 Jun 1938 in Twinsburg, Ohio. She married JOSIAH PERRY REESE. He was born
on 25 Jul 1860 in Cherokee Co, Georgia. He died on 14 Sep 1892 in Georgia.
29. vi. MARTHA ROSANA FRANKLIN was born on 03 Dec 1858 in Pickens County, Georgia. She
died in Dec 1937 in Gordon County, Georgia. She married Elijah E. Brown, son of
Francis Marion Brown and Martha J. Steen in 1872. He was born on 07 Sep 1852 in
Georgia. He died on 06 Jun 1929 in Calhoun, Gordon, GA. 30. vii. SARAH JANE FRANKLIN was born on 25 Apr 1861 in Gilmer County, Georgia. She died
on 06 Mar 1923 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia. She married (1) ELIAS BERRY REECE,
son of James M. Reese and Nancy in 1881. He was born in Jun 1857 in Georgia.
She married G. S. HULL. 31. viii. SOPHRONA ADDIE FRANKLIN was born on 04 Jul 1863 in Georgia. She died on 01 Mar
1951 in Gorman, Eastland County, Texas. She married FRANCIS M. MANCHESTER.
He was born on 22 Aug 1849 in Murphy, Cherokee Co., North Carolina. He died
on 06 Jun 1924 in Erath County, Texas.
Generation 3 (con't) 32. ix. ANDERSON LANE FRANKLIN was born on 25 Feb 1866 in Jasper, Pickens County,
Georgia. He died on 18 Jun 1962 in LaCrescenta (Glendale), Los Angeles County,
California (Age: 96). He married Blanche Henrietta Stone, daughter of James William
Stone and Nancy Jane Moore on 10 Jul 1887 in Hunt County, Texas. She was born
on 21 Nov 1870 in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. She died on 29 Nov
1934 in La Crescenta (Glendale), Los Angeles County, California (Age: 64).
33. x. AMANDA A. "MANDY" FRANKLIN was born on 02 Aug 1868 in Georgia. She died
between Jul 1903-1908. She married an unknown spouse in 1893.
xi. THOMAS J. FRANKLIN was born in Apr 1870 in Georgia. He died before 1880
in Georgia.
Notes for Thomas J. Franklin: Thomas was born in 1870. He no doubt died young. He does not appear in the
1880 census and his brother John does not list him as a sibling on a document.
His brother Anderson indicated that he had two brothers who died and Thomas
and an unnamed son fit this scenario.
34. xii. WILLIAM E. FRANKLIN was born on 13 Aug 1871 in Pickens County, Georgia. He died
between 1930-1970. He married Mary Pitts between 1891-1892 in Georgia. She was
born in 1874 in Georgia. She died after 1930.
10. BIRD3 FRANKLIN (Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born in Mar 1828 in Georgia. He died on 25 Jul 1901 in
Gum Springs, St Clair, Alabama. He married (1) ELIZABETH LUCINDA "JANE" JONES, daughter of
Edmond Jones and Cynthia Phillips on 07 Jan 1858 in Saint Clair County, Alabama. She was born in
1835 in St. Clair Co, Alabama. She died on 22 May 1871 in St. Clair Co, Alabama. He married (2) HENRIETTA S HENSON on 10 Jun 1847 in Carroll, Georgia, United States. She was born in
1830 in Georgia, United States. She died in 1858 in Alabama, United States.
Bird Franklin and Elizabeth Lucinda "Jane" Jones had the following children: i. EMILY F.
4 FRANKLIN was born about 1859 in St Clair County, Alabama.
ii. ROBERT BURNS FRANKLIN was born on 11 Dec 1861 in St Clair County, Alabama. He
died on 10 Mar 1936 in Ashville, Shelby Co., Alabama. [Note both his and sister
Catherine’s death certificates list their mother as Jane Jones-she may have had
three given names-although I have no source info for the other two stated given
names.]
iii. VIRGINIA BRADLEY FRANKLIN was born on 27 Aug 1863 in St Clair County, Alabama.
She died on 07 Dec 1924 in St Clair County, Alabama.
iv. EDMOND PERRY FRANKLIN was born in Mar 1864 in Alabama. He died in Apr 1919 in
St Clair County, Alabama.
v. CATHERINE FRANKLIN was born in Aug 1868 in Alabama. She died in 1891 in
Alabama. She actually died 28 Dec 1952 in Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL.
She too is buried in Gum Springs and has an AL death certificate verifying
Bird Franklin as her father. http://findagrave.com/cgi-
bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Franklin&GSiman=1&GScid=1968922&GRid=4
9424294&
She married David Malone.
vi. JOHN BIRD FRANKLIN was born on 23 Apr 1869 in St. Clair Co., Alabama. He died on 10
May 1930 in St. Clair Co., Alabama. Died 10 May 1931 (marker is incorrect, and
obviously much newer than 1931, so whoever placed it made an error on the death
year. He has a death certificate to verify. Was married to Allie Calhoun at the time of
his death per death certificate.) His daughter Ms Elsie Franklin Blackburn married 15
Mar 1940 in Jefferson Co., AL to James Edward Duke.
Bird Franklin and Henrietta S Henson had the following child: vii. GEORGE FRANKLIN was born in 1847 in Georgia, United States.
11. JACOB3 FRANKLIN JR. (Jacob
2, John
1) was born in Sep 1830 in North Carolina. He died in 1906 in
Hot House, Cherokee County, North Carolina. He married (1) MARY ADELINE PAINE in Monroe,
Union Union, North Carolina (near Hopewell Baptist Church). She was born about 1840 in North
Generation 3 (con't) Carolina. She died in Hot House, Cherokee, North Carolina. He married (2) MARY M ARTIN in
1896. She was born in Jan 1855 in North Carolina. He married (3) MARY ETTA LUNSFORD,
daughter of John H. Lunsford and Mary Matilda Pendergrass in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. She was born on 28 Nov 1856 in Macon County, North Carolina. She died on 11 Jan
1926 in Murphy, Cherokee Co., North Carolina.
Notes for Jacob Franklin Jr.:
Jacob's birthdate in the 1900 census was September 1834; however, the 1850 census shows
he was born in 1827. [US Censuses] Jacob Franklin, Jr. the oldest son, married Mary Payne near Hopewell Baptist Church and they had one boy, James Harrisson better known as Jim. They separated when Jim was a baby, and she later married Ed Forrister and they moved to Tennessee and raised several children. Jacob then married Mary Martin in Mecon County, NC and raised two boys, Bill and John, two girls, Catherine and Laura. Catherine married Sam Key and Laura married Jim Sharp. Catherine had a daughter living at Hewett, NC. Jacob married his third wife in Cherokee County, NC who was Mary Lunsford before her first marriage to Columbus Rowland. Jacob and his Mary had one girl named Catherine (Sis) who lives in NC somewhere and one boy, Carl D. who lives in Marble, NC. Jacob Franklin Jr. and his brother Ben volunteerd in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Jacob Jr. was wounded losing a foot in the battle at Chickamauga. He was a great dancer and after he lost his foot he said his balling days were over. But being a good violinist he attended dances and made music for them. He lived to a ripe old age and died in the Tomotia cemetery beside his last wife. A government stone marks his grave. [source: Franklin Genealogy by Patrick Franklin of Tulsa, 1998]
Notes for Mary Adeline Paine: Mary Adeline Paine married Jacob Franklin, Jr. and they had one boy, James Harrisson. They
separated when Jim was a baby, and she later married Ed Forrister and they moved to Tennessee
and raised several children. [source: Franklin Genealogy by Patrick Franklin of Tulsa, 1998]
Jacob Franklin Jr. and Mary Adeline Paine had the following child: 35. i. JAMES HARRISON "JIM"
4 FRANKLIN was born on 25 Nov 1850 in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. He died on 17 Nov 1896 in Walker, Georgia, United States. He married
Martha Adelade Hefner, daughter of John Henry Hefner and Margaret Jane Thompson
on 16 Feb 1871 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. She was born on 17 Feb 1854 in
Henderson County, North Carolina. She died on 06 Jun 1921 in Etowah County,
Alabama, USA.
Jacob Franklin Jr. and Mary Martin had the following children: ii. LAURA M. FRANKLIN was born about 1872 in North Carolina. She married JIM SHARP.
iii. WILLIAM H. "BILL" FRANKLIN was born about 1861 in North Carolina.
iv. CATHERINE FRANKLIN was born about 1863 in North Carolina. She married SAM KEY.
v. JOHN B. FRANKLIN was born about 1867 in North Carolina.
Jacob Franklin Jr. and Mary Etta Lunsford had the following children:
vi. CARL D. FRANKLIN was born in Apr 1896 in North Carolina.
vii. CATHERINE "SIS" FRANKLIN was born in Nov 1892 in North Carolina.
12. SARAH3 FRANKLIN (Jacob
2, John
1) was born in 1834 in North Carolina. She died in 1880 in
Kentucky. She married Charles Raper, son of Jesse Raper and Mary "Polly" McDaniel in 1849 in Union,Georgia. He was born in 1825 in Hot House, Cherokee, North Carolina. He died in 1863 in Hot House, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
Generation 3 (con't)
Notes for Charles Raper: Sarah Franklin (daughter of Jacob) married Charles Raper. John J. Franklin sold Charles Raper 100 acres of land on December 18, 1857. Charles was hanged by a mob at or near the old Franklin homesite. He was hanged from a loom on which they weaved cloth in those days. This happened during the Civil War (Being the same lands set out above fro John J. Franklin, and Isaac Franklin to Charles Raper. Said land was sold by the Sheriff at Public Auction and a man by the name of Stanhope Anderson became the last and highest bidder. Recorded in Book 25, page 262 of the Cherokee Registry.
Charles Raper and Sarah Franklin had the following children:
i. ELSA PUSS4 RAPER was born in 1858.
ii. NATHAN RAPER was born in 1851 in Cherokee Cty,Nc. He died in 1927.
iii. CALSINA RAPER was born in 1852 in Hothouse,Cherokee,North Carolina. She died
in 1927.
iv. CHARLES YOUNG RAPER was born on 13 Dec 1855 in Cherokee Cty,Nc. He died
in 1927.
13. ROSETTA C.3 FRANKLIN (Thomas
2, John
1) was born in Oct 1841 in Georgia. She died on 06
May 1911 in Russell County, Alabama, USA. She married WILLIAM JACKSON DEAN. He was
born in 1852.
William Jackson Dean and Rosetta C. Franklin had the following child:
i. ADALPHUS4 DEAN was born in 1875.
14. IVAN PIERCE3 FRANKLIN (Thomas
2, John
1) was born in 1834 in Habersham County, Georgia, USA.
He died on 12 Aug 1863 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA. He married Martha Cassandra Allison in 1857 in White County, Georgia. She was born on 01 Apr 1829 in Habersham County, Georgia, USA. She died on 20 Dec 1886 in White County, Georgia.
Ivan Pierce Franklin and Martha Cassandra Allison had the following children:
i. ABIGAIL4 FRANKLIN was born in 1862 in White County, Georgia. She died in 1863
in White County, Georgia.
ii. CHARLES LEONARD FRANKLIN was born on 09 Aug 1858 in Georgia. He died on 19
May 1907 in White County, Georgia, USA.
15. WILLIAM3 FRANKLIN (John
2 Jr., John
1) was born before 1826 in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. He died before 1860. He married MARY J. FRANKLIN. She was born about 1820 in
Cherokee County, North Carolina. She died in 1864.
Notes for William Franklin: William and Mary J. Franklin were the parents of Louis M. Franklin, born 1846 in Cherokee
County, North Carolina. In 1908, when his son Louis was 61, he swore in an affidavit, "My father died before I remember. My parents lived with the Indians before they left N.C. When they went away my mother stayed in N.C. I do not know what became of my father but think he died when I was small. Louisa Morgan was my aunt. Two of her sisters went West with the Indians." At the same time, Asa Bishop, witness for Louis M. Franklin, after being first duly sworn, deposes and says: "I know Louis W. Franklin; his mother said he was Cherokee Indian. When we were boys he was called Little Indian. His parents lived in tents with the Indians so his mother said. They came from Cherokee County, N.C. to Gilmore County, Ga., when I was a small boy. HIs people spoke the Indian language and his mother also. I do not know if they ever received any Indian money from the government. His father went to Morganton, N.C. and I never saw him again. This was a good while before the war."
Generation 3 (con't)
William Franklin and Mary J. Franklin had the following child: 36. i. LOUIS M.
4 FRANKLIN was born on 07 Mar 1846 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. He
died on 20 Nov 1918 in Humphreys County, Tennessee. He married Sarah S. Murrell
on 31 Aug 1865 in Dickson, Tennessee. She was born on 22 Apr 1845 in Dickson,
Tennessee. She died on 25 May 1924 in Humphreys, Tennessee (Age: 79).
16. SABRA ANN3 FRANKLIN (John
2 Jr., John
1) was born in 1833 in Union County, Georgia. She died
in 1869 in Georgia, USA. She married Lynch T Dover in 1856 in Gilmer, Georgia, USA. He was born in 1834 in Burke, North Carolina, United States. He died in Fannin, Georgia, United States.
Lynch T Dover and Sabra Ann Franklin had the following children:
i. LOUISA A.4 DOVER was born about 1869 in Georgia, USA.
ii. LINEY DOVER was born about 1866 in Georgia, USA.
iii. WILLIAM D DOVER was born in 1859 in Polk, Tennessee, USA. He died in
Georgia, USA.
iv. SARAH DOVER was born in 1858 in Georgia, USA. She died after 1920.
17. WILLIAM J.3 FRANKLIN SR (John
2 Jr., John
1) was born about 1824 in North Carolina. He died in
1897 in Murray County, Georgia. He married (1) LOUISA JOSEPHEN "JOSY" WITZEL, daughter of
Ebenezer Witzel and Elizabeth on 18 Dec 1858 in Fannin County, Georgia. She was born about 1841 in Georgia. She died in 1898 in Georgia. He married MRS. WILLIAM J. FRANKLIN.
William J. Franklin Sr and Louisa Josephen "Josy" Witzel had the following children:
i. SABRAH "SABRY"4 FRANKLIN was born between 1859-1879.
38. ii. JOHN E. FRANKLIN was born on 05 Jun 1858 in Georgia. He died on 22 Aug 1944 in
Murray, Georgia. He married (1) JOSEPHEN "JOSIE" MULL, daughter of Jacob M. "Jake"
Mull and Edna "Edney" in 1868. She was born in Jun 1865 in Georgia. She died after
Nov 1906 in Ga.. He married an unknown spouse in 1868.
39. iii. JAMES P. FRANKLIN was born in Dec 1861 in Georgia. He died on 06 Jun 1930 in
Fannin, Georgia. He married (2) ELIZABETH in 1882. She was born in Apr 1874 in
Georgia. She died on 10 May 1938 in Fannin County, Georgia, Mobile Cemetary.
iv. WILLIAM J. FRANKLIN was born in 1864 in Georgia. He died after 1906.
39. v. TARY T. FRANKLIN was born in 1870 in Fannin County, Georgia. He died after Aug
1907. He married RADY. She was born about 1881.
vi. JOSEPH FRANKLIN was born in May 1870 in Fannin County, Georgia.
Notes for Joseph Franklin: Joseph Franklin is in the 1870 Fannin county, Georgia census as an infant in his
parents household. William and Josephine (Witzel) Franklin's siblings do not list
Joseph as a child; rather, they have listed a brother named Tary T. as having
been born in 1870.
40. vii. THOMAS LUTHER "LUTHER" FRANKLIN was born in 1872 in Fannin County, Georgia. He
died between 1943-1972 in Georgia. He married LENA ARP. She was born on 18
Generation 3 (con't) Jan 1878 in Georgia. She died on 20 Sep 1942 in Fannin, Georgia.
41. viii. SARAH J. FRANKLIN was born in 1874 in Georgia. She died between 1894-1899. She
married MR. ROSE.
42. ix. IDA LAURA FRANKLIN was born on 24 Aug 1878 in Georgia. She died on 13 Apr 1947 in
Fayette, Kentucky, USA. She married an unknown spouse in 1894. She married
WILLIAM L. MCENTIRE. He was born in 1870 in North Carolina, USA. He died in 1907 in
Dalton, Georgia, USA. She married ELBERT B. ROBINSON. He was born in Sep 1884 in
Clay County, Kentucky, USA. He died on 15 Mar 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
William J. Franklin Sr and Mrs. William J. Franklin had the following child: x. BURTON FRANKLIN was born about 1856 in Georgia.
18. MARY J.3 FRANKLIN (William
2 Sr., John
1) was born about 1820 in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. She died in 1864. She married WILLIAM FRANKLIN. He was born before 1826 in
Cherokee County, North Carolina. He died before 1860.
Notes for William Franklin: William and Mary J. Franklin were the parents of Louis M. Franklin, born 1846 in Cherokee
County, North Carolina. In 1908, when his son Louis was 61, he swore in an affidavit, "My father died before I remember. My parents lived with the Indians before they left N.C. When they went away my mother stayed in N.C. I do not know what became of my father but think he died when I was small. Louisa Morgan was my aunt. Two of her sisters went West with the Indians." At the same time, Asa Bishop, witness for Louis M. Franklin, after being first duly sworn, deposes and says: "I know Louis W. Franklin; his mother said he was Cherokee Indian. When we were boys he was called Little Indian. His parents lived in tents with the Indians so his mother said. They came from Cherokee County, N.C. to Gilmore County, Ga., when I was a small boy. HIs people spoke the Indian language and his mother also. I do not know if they ever received any Indian money from the government. His father went to Morganton, N.C. and I never saw him again. This was a good while before the war."
William Franklin and Mary J. Franklin had the following child: 36. i. LOUIS M.
4 FRANKLIN was born on 07 Mar 1846 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. He
died on 20 Nov 1918 in Humphreys County, Tennessee. He married Sarah S. Murrell
on 31 Aug 1865 in Dickson, Tennessee. She was born on 22 Apr 1845 in Dickson,
Tennessee. She died on 25 May 1924 in Humphreys, Tennessee (Age: 79).
19. WILLIAM JACOB3 FRANKLIN (William
2 Sr., John
1) was born in 1826 in Cherokee County, North
Carolina. He died on 06 Mar 1902 in Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co, Ga.. He married Mary Jane Cross in 1851. She was born about 1833 in Tennessee. She died on 01 Aug 1902 in Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia.
William Jacob Franklin and Mary Jane Cross had the following children:
i. JAMES4 FRANKLIN was born in Oct 1878 in Tennessee.
ii. MARTHA L. FRANKLIN was born about 1868 in Tennessee.
iii. JOHN FRANKLIN was born in 1866 in Tn. He died in 1936 in Ga..
iv. REBECCA M. FRANKLIN was born in 1872 in Tennessee.
v. NANCY FRANKLIN was born in 1852 in Polk Co., Tennessee.
Generation 3 (con't) vi. SARAH FRANKLIN was born in 1852 in Polk Co., Tennessee.
vii. JASPER A. FRANKLIN was born in 1870 in Tennessee.
viii. JOSEPH FRANKLIN was born in 1864 in Tn. He died in 1941 in Gainesville,
Hall, Georgia, USA.
ix. JOHN FRANKLIN was born in Apr 1864 in Tennessee.
x. JOHN M. FRANKLIN was born about 1862 in Tennessee.
xi. MARY FRANKLIN was born in 1859 in Polk Co., Tennessee.
xii. KATE C FRANKLIN was born in Mar 1885 in Georgia.
xiii. DAVID WASHINGTON FRANKLIN was born in Jul 1874 in Tennessee. He died on 19
Dec 1951 in Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia.
44. xiv. JAMES C. FRANKLIN was born on 06 Jan 1871 in Isabella, Tennessee. He died on 17
May 1972 in Gainesville, Hall Co., Georgia. He married (1) NANNIE LOU HELTON in Hall
Co., Ga. She was born about 1872 in Kentucky. He married NANNIE. She was born
about 1891 in Georgia.
xv. WILLIAM JACOB FRANKLIN JR. was born in 1854 in Polk Co., Tennessee. He died on
31 Jan 1924 in Bartow Co., Georgia.
Generation 4
20. WILLIAM HENRY FRANKLIN (Elias
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born in May 1850 in Union County,
Georgia. He died on 07 Jun 1922 in St Elmo, Hamilton Co, Tennessee. He married Julia Ann Franklin, daughter of William R. "Will" Franklin and Amy Vianna Ledford about 1875. She was born on 23 Dec 1863 in Georgia. She died on 30 Aug 1892 in Coryell County, Texas.
William Henry Franklin and Julia Ann Franklin had the following child:
i. GUENN V. FRANKLIN was born in 1870 in Tennessee.
21. MARGARET E. FRANKLIN (Elias3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born in 1860 in North Carolina. She
married Martin V. Stamey on 20 Dec 1878 in Burke County, North Carolina. He was born in Dec
1833 in North Carolina. He died on 04 Mar 1914 in Silver Creek Township, , North Carolina, USA.
Martin V. Stamey and Margaret E. Franklin had the following children: i. ROSEY STAMEY was born about 1876 in North Carolina.
ii. JUNIUS P STAMEY was born in 1894 in North Carolina. He died on 26 Sep 1968
in Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina.
iii. MARTIN F STAMEY was born on 24 Sep 1879 in Burke, North Carolina. He died
on 21 Nov 1957 in Burke, North Carolina.
22. JULIA ANN4 FRANKLIN (William R. "Will"
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 23 Dec 1863 in
Georgia. She died on 30 Aug 1892 in Coryell County, Texas. She married William Henry Franklin about 1875. He was born in May 1850 in Union County, Georgia. He died on 07 Jun 1922 in St Elmo, Hamilton Co, Tennessee.
William Henry Franklin and Julia Ann Franklin had the following child:
i. GUENN V. FRANKLIN was born in 1870 in Tennessee.
Generation 4 (con't)
23. WILLIAM LAFAYETTE4 FRANKLIN (William R. "Will"
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 10 May 1866 in
Union County, Georgia. He died on 14 Oct 1941 in Union, Georgia, United States. He married MARY ROBERTA.
William Lafayette Franklin and Mary Roberta had the following children:
i. ULLA5 FRANKLIN was born on 24 May 1896.
ii. VERDA FRANKLIN was born on 26 Aug 1900.
iii. LINNIE THEODORA FRANKLIN was born on 04 Apr 1903.
24. BENJAMIN CRUMP4 FRANKLIN (William R. "Will"
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born about 1868
in Georgia. He died on 01 Aug 1959 in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States.
Benjamin Crump Franklin had the following children:
i. OLA MAY5 FRANKLIN was born on 02 Aug 1889.
ii. LULA FRANKLIN was born on 08 Jul 1894.
iii. BENJAMIN JAMES FRANKLIN was born on 18 Jun 1897.
iv. TRUDIE FRANKLIN was born on 06 Jan 1900.
v. LOLLIE IRENE FRANKLIN was born on 22 Jun 1902.
vi. VIRGIE JAY FRANKLIN was born on 27 Feb 1905.
vii. ANNLY? ETTA FRANKLIN was born on 29 Jun 2007.
25. JUAN WILBURN4 FRANKLIN (William R. "Will"
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 05 Jan 1872 in
Union Co, Georgia. He died on 11 Feb 1962 in Monahans, Ward, Texas, USA. He married Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Featherson on 03 Nov 1901 in Coryell Co, Texas. She was born on 03 Sep 1885 in Texas. She died on 25 Sep 1974 in DeLeon, Comanche Co, Texas.
Notes for Juan Wilburn Franklin:
excerpt from Harley Franklin Reese 1959 letter: "That year [1907] Sister [Annie Reese] had a letter printed in the "Dallas News", in which she mentioned the family relations. She received a letter from a Mrs. Franklin who lived in Coryell county I believe. Father visited these Franklins. The man was Juan a son of William Franklin, Grandfather's brother."
The General Index to the Eastern Cherokee claims show that Juan Wilborn Franklin's
claim number was #8409. He was a resident of Coryell, Texs and listed his address in
1907 as Turnersville,
Juan Wilburn Franklin and Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Featherson had the following children: i. AMY FRANCES
5 FRANKLIN was born on 16 Nov 1903 in Texas.
ii. MAMIE LEE FRANKLIN was born on 07 Mar 1905 in Texas.
iii. LULA M FRANKLIN was born about 1908 in Texas.
Generation 4 (con't) 26. ABRAHAM TORENCE
4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 19 Mar
1852 in North Carolina. He died on 20 Jun 1941 in Terrell, Kaufman, Texas, United States. He married Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Tapp, daughter of Hugh L. Tapp and Pheobe Agnes Samples on 01 Nov 1875 in Kaufman County, Texas. She was born on 22 Aug 1860 in Georgia. She died on 13 Dec 1933 in Wills Point, Van Zandt , Texas.
Notes for Abraham Torence Franklin:
Abraham Torance Franklin was named for his grandfathers, Abraham Franklin and Tarence Bryan. His niece wrote that Abe and his brother John stopped in Texas to visit their brother, Anderson, and went on to Oregon. As Anderson's oldest daughter, Nellie, said she was quite small when they stopped by, it was probably about 1895. When the Franklin family began submitting applications for Eastern Cherokee monies in 1907, Abe's brother John stated in an affidavit that he did not know when his brother died but did state that his birthday was March 19, 1852. His sister Lynia's son Abraham Reese stated that his uncle's residence was unknown. Census checks for Oregon and Washington did not produce a match for Abe Franklin and it appears he returned to Texas. In the 1930 Mexia, Limestone County, Texas census, there is an Abraham T. Franklin, age 77, widowed, born in North Carolina, living alone. His occupation was listed as Carpenter and he was not a veteran. Abraham's burial place was finally found in Kaufman County, Texas. He died June 20, 1941 and does not have a headstone. The informant for his death record stated he was born March 19, was 89 years old, and was the son of John Franklin and Elisabeth Tapp; which is in error as his wife was Elisabeth Tapp and his brother and uncle were named John. Abraham and Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Tapp had five children.
Abraham Torence Franklin and Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Tapp had the following children:
i. LAURA ELIZABETH "LAURIE"5 FRANKLIN was born on 16 Aug 1876 in Terrell, Kaufman
Co., Texas. She died on 23 Jan 1957 in Cleburne, Johnson Co, Texas.
ii. ROSA LEE FRANKLIN was born on 09 Apr 1879 in Kaufman Co, TX. She died on
16 Nov 1952 in Baird, Callahan Co, TX.
iii. MITTIE VERGIE FRANKLIN was born on 18 Oct 1884 in Texas. She died on 31 Oct
1971 in Waxahachie, Ellis Co, Texas. She married LEWIS L MCMAHEN. He was
born on 30 May 1882 in Georgia, USA. He died in USA.
iv. SARAH FRANKLIN was born in 1877 in Texas.
v. JOSIE EVELYN FRANKLIN was born in 1888. She died on 18 Jul 1976 in Dallas,
Dallas Co, Texas.
27. LYNIA "LINI" ABIGAIL4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 10 Mar
1855 in Georgia. She died on 25 Dec 1895 in Walker County, Georgia. She married WILLIAM
HENRY REESE. He was born on 22 Jun 1862 in Pickens County, Georgia. He died in 1936.
Notes for Lynia "Lini" Abigail Franklin: Lini was the mother of six children. Her son Harley stated that she and his dad belonged to the
Baptist Church, Southern Association. The last church they belonged to in Georgia was Oak Hill
Church near Cedar Grove post office. Lynia was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery in 1895 and
his son didn't think there was a headstone.
Notes for William Henry Reese: All the sons of William Henry and Linea graduated from college and had degrees. William
Henry Reese's descendants show he died in 1937; however, his tombstone shows 1936.
William Henry Reese and Lynia "Lini" Abigail Franklin had the following children:
Generation 4 (con't) i. ANNIE JANE
5 REESE was born in May 1882 in Pickens County, Georgia. She died on 10
Oct 1966 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas. She married JOHN LAWRENCE BRADLEY. He was born about 1874.
Notes for Annie Jane Reese: A resident of Waco, Texas in 1907.
ii. ABRAHAM PINKNEY REESE was born on 07 Nov 1880 in Pickens County, Georgia.
He died on 18 Sep 1946 in Henderson, Rusk, Texas. He married Lottie Belle
Grigg in 1901. She was born in 1885 in North Carolina. She died in 1975 in Texas.
Notes for Abraham Pinkney Reese: A
resident of Pritchelle, Texas in 1907.
iii. HUGHES CLINTON REESE was born on 22 Oct 1890 in Gordon County, Georgia. He
died on 11 May 1982 in Hobbs, New Mexico. He married Mattie E. McLain in
Waco, Texas. She was born on 23 Mar 1885 in Marlin, Texas. She died on 16
Dec 1965 in Hobbs, New Mexico.
Notes for Hughes Clinton Reese: Hughes and Mattie Reese were living in Emzy (District 29), in Roosevelt
County, New Mexico at the time of the 1930 U. S. Census. Son Clinton, daughters Edith, Vivian and Eunice and stepson Alexander Kennon were in the household. Hughes indicated that he was a veteran of World War I.
iv. STARLING LEEMAN REESE was born in Apr 1884 in Pickens County, Georgia. He died in
Jan 1974 in California. He married MILDRED "MILLIE". She was born about 1889.
v. HARLEY FRANKLIN REESE was born on 19 Aug 1888 in Pickens County, Georgia. He
died on 19 Jun 1969 in Ohio. He married Ethelyn Boyd on 07 Nov 1914 in
Marshall, Searcy, Arkansas. She was born on 15 Feb 1886 in Arkansas. She died
on 26 Aug 1981 in Hanford, Kings, California.
28. MARY ELISABETH4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 19 Jan 1857 in
Gilmer County, Georgia. She died on 23 Jun 1938 in Twinsburg, Ohio. She married JOSIAH PERRY
REESE. He was born on 25 Jul 1860 in Cherokee Co, Georgia. He died on 14 Sep 1892 in Georgia.
Notes for Mary Elisabeth Franklin:
Mary Elisabeth Franklin was born in 1857 in Georgia. She was the mother of five children and a widow in 1907 when she submitted her application for monies from the U. S. Government as a Cherokee Indian descendant. Her application was extremely difficult to read and there may be errors in the spellings of her children's and husband's first names.
Her descendant, Lynn Chandler, recalls this story:- I do know one story concerning Anderson and
Jane you might enjoy. I was told that when Mary was very little the War Between the States had
started. Her older brothers and sister (that would have been Abraham, John and Linny...I think that
was her family nickname), were old enough to be careful of what they said. The younger one ( Marthy)
could not speak clearly yet, but Mary could talk well and was so young they were afraid of what she
might say. Groups of soldiers from both sides frequently rode through the area (I believe they were in
North Carolina at the time). If any of the Union soldiers questioned Mary and she told about her father,
she would be in danger and so would her family. The groups of soldiers riding through were often very
undisciplined. So, her parents (Anderson and Jane) taught her to say, no matter which group of
soldiers asked her, that "My Father wears a uniform just like yours".......and
Generation 4 (con't) she was asked.......several times. She felt a strong aversion to Yankees (even though
her daughter married one) all the way
Mary married Josiah Perry Reese. Family lore says that Perry Reese's father owned a
plantation in Pickens County, Georgia and two of his sons met and married Franklin sisters.
Josiah died 14 September 1892.
In the 1900 Calhoun, Gordon county, Georgia census, Mary is listed as Annie C. Reese, head -
widowed and 43 eyars of age. Her daughters Mary E, Emma E, Loa A., Bessie M, and son Samuel P.
Reese were living with her. She stated she was farming and that she rented her home.
Notes for Josiah Perry Reese: In the family bible (now owned by descendant Lynn Chandler, 2000), Mary entered that Perry
"departed this life September 14, 1892 aged 32 years 1 month 19 days." He was killed in an accident
at a sawmill he had started, that was located a little more than halfway up a mountain. A new worker
he had just hired did not feed a log properly and the kickback resulted in the log and some pieces of
the log that had splintered off, being sent flying. One piece hit Perry, even though he was standing
some distance away, piercing him through the chest. The rest of the story is a bit grim but that is the
essential part. Mary never remarried, and I believe, always wore black.
Josiah Perry Reese and Mary Elisabeth Franklin had the following children: i. BESSEY MAE
5 REESE was born on 17 Dec 1890 in Georgia. She died in 1904
in Georgia.
ii. MARION JOSHUA REESE was born on 27 Feb 1885 in Georgia. He died on 29
Dec 1885 in Georgia.
iii. WILLIAM ANDERSON REESE was born on 30 Jul 1880 in Georgia. He died on 16 Apr
1968 in Trenton, Georgia.
Notes for William Anderson Reese: A William A. Reese, born about 1880 Georgia, is living in Lily Pond, Gordon
County, Georgia in 1910 with his wife Mary E. It is unknown if he is the son of
Josiah Perry and Mary E. (Franklin) Reese.
iv. ASENETH ELIZABETH "MARY E." REESE was born on 21 Apr 1883 in Georgia. She died
on 27 Jul 1906 in Georgia.
v. SAMUEL PERRY REESE was born in Jun 1891 in Georgia. He died in 1925.
vi. ANNA LOLA REESE was born on 24 Sep 1888 in Georgia. She died on 29 Feb
1948 in Ohio. She married CORNELIUS HAWK.
vii. AMY ELMINEY REESE was born on 27 Feb 1885 in Georgia. She died on 30
Aug 1970 in Dalton, Georgia. She married WILL AMOS.
29. MARTHA ROSANA4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 03 Dec 1858
in Pickens County, Georgia. She died in Dec 1937 in Gordon County, Georgia. She married Elijah E. Brown, son of Francis Marion Brown and Martha J. Steen in 1872. He was born on 07 Sep 1852 in Georgia. He died on 06 Jun 1929 in Calhoun, Gordon, GA.
Elijah E. Brown and Martha Rosana Franklin had the following children:
i. JOHN BRYANT5 BROWN was born on 24 Dec 1890 in Gordon Co, GA. He died on
12 May 1967 in Cullman, Cullman, AL.
Generation 4 (con't) ii. BESSIE MALINDA BROWN was born in Mar 1894 in Georgia. She died on 22 Jan
1948 in Whitfield Co, GA.
iii. LULA D BROWN was born about 1897 in Georgia.
iv. ROBERT E BROWN was born about 1901 in Georgia. He died in Jan 1951
in Calhoun, Gordon Co, GA.
v. THOMAS WARREN BROWN was born on 14 Oct 1881 in Pickens Co, GA. He died
in 1963 in Calhoun, Gordon, GA.
vi. MARY E. BROWN was born about 1878 in Georgia. She died in 1900.
vii. REBECCA BROWN was born about 1879 in Georgia. She died in 1900.
viii. CICERO BROWN was born in 1885. He died in Dec 1890 in Gordon Co, GA.
ix. MARION BROWN was born in 1882.
x. COLUMBUS BROWN was born in 1883. He died in Dec 1890 in Gordon Co, GA.
30. SARAH JANE4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 25 Apr 1861
in Gilmer County, Georgia. She died on 06 Mar 1923 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia. She married (1) ELIAS BERRY REECE, son of James M. Reese and Nancy in 1881. He was born in
Jun 1857 in Georgia. She married G. S. HULL.
Notes for Sarah Jane Franklin: Sarah Jane Reese applied for Cherokee monies between 1906-1910 on application #315. She
stated that she was born in Gilmer County and was the mother of five children. Her nephew, Harley
Reese, stated in a letter "I don't know any way to get in touch with the relatives in Atlanta. Aunt
Sarah Jane, Uncle Berry Reese's widow married a Hull; he had a son named Carl."
Notes for Elias Berry Reece: 21 year old Elias Reese, farmer, is found living alone in town (not identified except as #1198)
in Pickens County, Georgia. He and his mother were born in Georgia; his father was born in
South Carolina.
Elias Berry Reece and Sarah Jane Franklin had the following children: i. MARY A.
5 REECE was born in Aug 1883 in Georgia. She married MR. OVERBY.
ii. IDA REECE was born in Apr 1887 in Georgia.
iii. ELIZABETH J. REECE was born in Mar 1890 in Georgia.
iv. NINA MAY REESE was born in Jun 1894 in Georgia.
v. JAMES C. REECE was born in Feb 1898 in Georgia.
31. SOPHRONA ADDIE4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 04 Jul 1863 in
Georgia. She died on 01 Mar 1951 in Gorman, Eastland County, Texas. She married FRANCIS M. MANCHESTER. He was born on 22 Aug 1849 in Murphy, Cherokee Co., North Carolina. He died on
6 Jun 1924 in Erath County, Texas.
Generation 4 (con't) Notes for Sophrona Addie Franklin:
Sophona Addie Franklin can be found in five U. S. Censuses: 1870 as Sophrania Franklin; 1880 as Adaliza S. Franklin; 1900 as Lisa Franklin; 1910 as Safrona Manchester; 1920 and 1930 as Addie L. Manchester. Harley F. Reese wrote in 1959 that his aunt Adliza (Franklin) Machester was in on the Eastern Cherokee research and that she lived in Atlanta in 1920, which was the last he heard of her. In the 1970's, a relative also referred to her as Adlizer.
Records show that she married Francis M. Manchester and was the mother of two sons.
She died in 1951 in Gorman, Texas.
Francis M. Manchester and Sophrona Addie Franklin had the following children:
i. WILLIAM JEWELL5 MANCHESTER was born on 25 Feb 1904 in North Carolina. He died
on 11 May 1975 in Waco, McLennan, Texas.
ii. MONTE FRANKLIN MANCHESTER was born on 11 Sep 1908 in North Carolina. He died
on 07 Nov 1998 in Greenhill, Alabama. He married MILDRED ELIZABETH LOVE. She
was born about 1914 in Texas.
32. ANDERSON LANE4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 25 Feb 1866 in
Jasper, Pickens County, Georgia. He died on 18 Jun 1962 in LaCrescenta (Glendale), Los Angeles County, California (Age: 96). He married Blanche Henrietta Stone, daughter of James William Stone and Nancy Jane Moore on 10 Jul 1887 in Hunt County, Texas. She was born on 21 Nov 1870 in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. She died on 29 Nov 1934 in La Crescenta (Glendale), Los Angeles County, California (Age: 64).
Notes for Anderson Lane Franklin: Anderson Lane Franklin was 96 when he died. All twelve of his children were still living and he had about 28 great-great-grandchildren. He was loved and respected by his children and grandchildren
and remembered as being a very strict disciplinarian. He was named for his father, Anderson Green
Franklin; however, he told daughter Willie that the "L" he used to sign with his first name (Anderson)
was started with the "G" being perverted by companies he bought his repair parts from. He told her
that it was easier to make an "L" than to straighten the companies on it. Anderson was interviewed on
his 94th birthday in February 1960. "I was born in Jasper, the county seat of Pickens County, about 40
miles north of Rome, Georgia. I came along about two years after the Civil War, and remember the
state of Georgia at that time. It was a mighty poor state after the Yankees took everything. 'Foraging'
they called it at the time but we'd call it robbery or stealing today." Anderson recalled that the nearest
city of any size was Rome. Once a year he would go there by horse and wagon with his father where
they would trade corn, cotton, tobacco or peanuts for sugar and other groceries. Many was the time he
drove a team of oxen to church. His only schooling was in the little log school house where the basic
"three R's" were taught. At 19, he went to Texas. For about a year he worked on a farm, picking cotton
and doing other chores. The owner of the farm decided to sell out and move to Indian Territory. He
asked the young man to go with him. "A white man was assessed $5 a year to stay in the Territory at
that time. Many of them married an Indian girl and in that way acquired some land," noted Anderson.
There was a man who had a saw mill near the town of Chickasha who hired him. The mill cut up
cottonwood lumber for the many houses being built throughout the area, shipping it as far as
Dennison, Texas, 75 miles away. Practically all the white men who were not married were outlaws,"
said Anderson. "Whenever the Law came through the Territory, about three times a year, a runner
would precede them. Alerted, the outlaws would leave the mill, mount their horses, ride off into the
hills, and not come back until danger from the Law was over." Anderson, now 21, went back to Texas
where in 1887 he married Blanche Stone and settled down for a while as a blacksmith in that state and
later in the new state of Oklahoma. He shod hundreds of horses, for which he was paid $1 each. Plow
shares were forged and hammered into shape by him which turned the soil of land that had never
known a plow before. His daughters recounted a story he told of having had a fight with another man
in Georgia when he was about 19. He thought he had killed him and moved away. Two of his brothers
looked him up in Texas on their way to Oregon in the 1890's. Many, many
Generation 4 (con't) years later he returned to see if he could locate his parents and encountered the same man he thought he had killed years earlier. Sadly, he lost contact with his parents who had moved to another part of northern Georgia and he never could locate them again. Anderson and Blanche had twelve healthy children over a twenty year period and moved frequently throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Oldest daughter Nellie recalled that "the family left Talley Jeffcoat's place a mile or two from Blueridge, Texas when Thelma was but 1 to 2 months old" in December 1895 or January 1896. "Papa had gathered his crop of cotton and corn. We visited Uncle John (Stone) before we left. We finally landed at Aunt Bet Barnet's place - Papa found a place for us, just a few miles from Aunt Bet's place (she had 2 teenage kids, Ona, a girl, Edward, a boy. Papa made a crop there on "The Mac Carens Place". Then we moved close to Blanket, 2 to 4 miles from town where Leonard was born. Papa also made a crop there (on the Coffee place). We traded in Blanket, and once Pa took us all to trade. I've been thru there at least 4 times since I've been an old woman, it still looks the same. I've never been to Zephyr which is in the same county (Brown). But once Papa took us to Brownwood to the "Ringlin Bros" show. Brownwood is the county seat of the county, but I don't imagine there'd be any records there or even at the State Capital. I have been to Palo Pinto several times to where Oscar was born., It's still there but sure is falling into decay. When we left Blanket we gypsied around in the covered wagon, in no hurry, finally camped on the San Sabas River (Papa finally got a tent) and that's where he caught the big fish and I mean BIG. Then pa got a house on the bank of the San Saba River, we moved in, where Hixie was born. In the meantime we got acquainted with the Crump Family. They were very friendly and nice, one girl was named Hixie. Mama named our Hixie after her. Then "Old Man Crump had a well-drilling rig (or acquired one) and hired Papa to be the driller. They drilled so many dry holes they folded up and called it quits. So we drifted on, reaching Eden, Texas. I was 10 years old, so Oscar and me got to see what school was like, our teacher was a man named S. E. Van Burkleo. Moved onto Eldorado, Christoval, and I'm sure you can remember from then on. " He and Blanche also helped raise two of their grandsons, Douglas Slover and Bill Allred. Anderson was a very harsh disciplinarian who had a bad temper, especially with his older children. He would beat them for the slightest offense. Many of his daughters and grandson recounted severe beatings at his hands. Two separate incidents with different daughters recalled intervention by the local sheriff, who warned Anderson about controlling his behavior. He kicked his boys out of the house at the age of 16 as he felt he wasn't responsible for them anymore. His temper mellowed as he grew older and his younger children benefited. Even recounting tales of his harsh side, his children thought well of him and their life as a family. In 1934, Anderson came to California to join his wife after disposing of his blacksmith shop in Walters, Oklahoma. Blanche died shortly afterwards. Until his death in 1962 at the age of 96, Anderson alternately lived with one of his daughters. He lived with Thelma for a few years, eleven years with Joan, some years with Viola, and spent his final years with Inez. He had hoped to live to be 100 years old but his health started deteriorating once he broke his hip. He still had a remarkable memory at 96 and remembered even his Great-grandchildren's names when they came to visit. Papa Anderson was buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale. (©2000, Margie (Allred) von Marenholtz) Notes for Blanche Henrietta Stone:
Blanche was born in Arkansas. Her daughters said she was born in Chidester in Ouachita County;
however; when she died, her husband said that she had been born in Fayetteville, Washington
County. Her daughters also stated that her given name was Henrietta Blanche Stone; she married as
H. B. Stone and appears as Blanche H. Franklin in a census. She was always called Blanche and
that is the name on her death certificate. The family moved to Texas and Blanche was orphaned
there while still a young girl. She and her brother Hector and sisters Ella and Savannah went to live
with their father's family, Uncle John and Aunt Sally Stone. Blanche's children reported that Blanche
and her siblings lived in their uncle's house but were not treated as family. Blanche left at the age of
16 to marry Anderson Franklin. Her daughters thought she had married in Leonard, Fannin County,
Texas but she actually married in Hunt County. She and Anderson left Texas and roamed over the
southwest. She bore twelve healthy children over a 24-year period and also raised two grandsons,
Douglas Slover and William Allred. Her daughters remembered her as the perfect mother, a very
quiet woman. She read and sewed. Her hobby was making quilts. Once a year she would host a
quilting party with women who went to the same church she attended in Oklahoma. She was a
member of the Church of Christ there. Blanche suffered a stroke in 1933, after the world's fair in
Chicago, and was partially paralyzed in her left arm and leg. She was living in Duncan, Oklahoma
with her last child, Joan (Emma Jean)
Generation 4 (con't) and husband Anderson when her daughter Nona (Nannie Jane) stopped by. Nona was with her
one husband that was in show business with her on the stage in New York. Nona asked Blanche why didn't she come to Southern California with she and her husband. Blanche said to
wait a moment and went into her room and packed her clothes. She never asked Anderson,
who was working in his blacksmith shop across the street, if she could go. Nona was very
surprised but happy that her mother said yes. Six months later Anderson and Joan joined her in
La Crescenta, California. Blanche had only been in California ten months when she suffered a
cerebral hemmorhage on November 26, 1934. She passed away three days later. Anderson buried her at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale. ©2002, Margie von Marenholtz Anderson Lane Franklin and Blanche Henrietta Stone had the following children:
i. NELLIE DEMORETTA SOPHRONIA5 FRANKLIN was born on 05 Aug 1888 in Texas. She
died on 25 Jul 1987 in Madera County, California. She married (1) SIDNEY "SID" STEWART on 01 Oct 1905 in Robert Lee, Coke County, Texas. He was born in 1886 in Edith, Coke county, Texas. He died in 1942 in Edith, Coke county, Texas. She married MR. SHORTRIDGE. She married MR. BREWER.
Notes for Nellie Demoretta Sophronia Franklin: Nellie, the oldest of twelve children born to Anderson and Blanche Franklin,
has provided the early day history of the Franklin family. From hearing her sister Thelma's newborn cry to the birth of Leonard, she has shared many valuable memories for future generations. Much loved, many descendents share her name of Nellie.
At the age of 86, she was corresponding with Thelma's granddaughter. She worked at something every day - letter writing, piecing quilts, and sewing clothes for herself. She was named for her papa's sister, Sophronia. She remembers meeting two of her papa's brothers (John and Abe) when they came to Texas before going on to Oregon.
She married Sidney Stewart in 1905 and they were the parents of seven children -
Eva, Lillian, Lorene, Edith, Bessie, Nathan and Blanche. She later married a Mr.
Brewer. In 1974, Nellie lived at 645 North 7th, Chowchilla, California. Nellie died on 25
July 1987. She was 11 days short of being 99 years old.
ii. OSCAR ELON FRANKLIN was born on 16 Aug 1892 in Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County,
Texas. He died on 10 May 1963 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. He
married Sina E. Vantreese, daughter of James Vantreese and Nannie O. Ratliff
before Jun 1917. She was born on 06 Feb 1896 in Oklahoma. She died in Feb
1978 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma.
Notes for Oscar Elon Franklin: Oscar was born August 16, 1892 in Palo Pinto, Texas, the second of twelve
children born to Anderson Lane and Blanche (Stone) Franklin. He married Sina Vantreese before June 1917, when he registered for the World War 1 draft. He indicated that he was a painter by occupation at that time. He can be found in Duncan in the 1920 census as the father of a daughter, Paulina. He and Sina were living two doors away from Sina's parents. His son Richard was born in 1927. Oscar and his family stayed in Oklahoma after the rest of the Franklin family moved to California. He passed away in Duncan on June 10, 1963.
iii. WILLIE BELLE FRANKLIN was born on 08 Feb 1894 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas.
She died on 31 Jan 1985 in Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma. She married
Pugh Daniel Simons, son of Eaton Pugh Dawes Simons and Louisa Jane Ely on
25 Nov 1914 in Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma. He was born on 14 Feb
1885 in Purcell, McClain County, Oklahoma. He died on 03 Jun 1951 in Rush
Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma.
Generation 4 (con't)
Notes for Willie Belle Franklin: Willie was the third of twelve children. Born in Texas, she moved with her family to Oklahoma. She met and married her husband, Pugh Simons, there when she was 20 years old. They had three children. At the age of 75 she wrote her great niece (Margie Allred) of her parents: "A very young couple met, fell in love - decided to marry and fight lifes battles together. Twelve children were born to them. All of them dear to their hearts and made welcome. Life held many adversities they met with courage and together. And tried to do their best for the little children entrusted to their care and lived to raise them all. A wonderful man and woman - my father and mother. Wish I could tell you more about them." Willie celebrated her 90th birthday at the Older American Center with her daughter, LuVeta, and friends.
iv. THELMA BLANCHE ANDRE FRANKLIN was born on 08 Nov 1895 in Blueridge, Collin
County, Texas. She died on 05 Jul 1979 in LaCrescenta, Los Angeles County,
California. She married (1) SAMUEL JASPER ALLRED, son of Joseph Robert Allred
and Eliza Ann Collins on 21 Mar 1916 in Duncan, Grady County, Oklahoma. He
was born on 24 Mar 1892 in Avery, Red River County, Texas. He died on 29 Apr
1927 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (Age at Death: 35). She
married (2) GILBERT about 1929 in Oklahoma. He died about 1930 in Oklahoma.
She married (3) RAYMOND FREDERICK SCHAMBERS, son of Edmund Schambers and
Catherine Strib between 1948-1949 in California. He was born on 27 Apr 1916.
He died on 09 Nov 1988 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.
Notes for Thelma Blanche Andre Franklin: Thelma was the fourth of twelve children of Anderson and Blanche (Stone) Franklin.
she was born November 8, 1895 in Blueridge, Texas. Thelma was named for both of
her parents. Even though named Blanche Andrea, her mother called her Thelma after
a character in a book she had been reading. Thelma remembered early years in Texas
and picking cotton. She also had a vivid memory of her father pulling her across a river
in a large bucket with a rope line as she hung on for dear life. She told her
grandchildren (about a million times according to them) how she had taken too much
syrup for breakfast one morning and left a very large pool of it on her plate. Her father
saved the syrup for her to finish at lunch and dinner. Just syrup. The family ended up
in Duncan, Oklahoma by the time Thelma was 16. She had three beaus at the same
time and said that the Franklin girls always had lots of suitors as they were the prettiest
girls in Duncan, Oklahoma. At the age of 20, she was already employed but still living
at home when she came home to an angry father. She and a young man had attended a movie without his permission and he took off his shoe and beat her unconscious. Soon she chose Sam to marry because of what she called 'his potential.' She had been a typist/stenographer for a lawyer when he had come in for legal advice and even though she had a sort of understanding with another suitor, that gentleman wanted his mother to live with them after they married. Thelma used to chuckle that this potential mother-in-law lived to be in her 90's and that she had chosen well. Just mentioning her twelve years with Sam would brighten her up. Thelma and Sam were married nine years before their only child, Billy, was born. During the baby's birth, her husband and parents were told that she was most likely going to die. They had already used two entire bottles of ether on her. Thelma said that they had to injure her and the too-large baby just to bring him into the world. The doctors could not understand how she lived through the birth and told her and Sam not to have any more children. Thelma was terrified of becoming pregnant again and alienated her husband. She felt that she was partly to blame when he was murdered by his mistress in 1927. Billy was three. She was working as a waitress when his brother Frank came rushing in with the news. She told her granddaughter years later how important the three days were that she could talk to Sam before he died and how she still missed him over 50 years later. She dropped their son off with her
Generation 4 (con't) parents and went to Chicago to see her sister Donna and look for work. About 1930,
she remarried to an oilman named Gilbert. She left him after five weeks due to a
violent argument over child rearing. She and her sisters took the train and attended the
1933 World's Fair in Chicago, saving a program which she gave her granddaughter.
She mentioned in 1934 she was working as a cook at the Lyon's Hotel in Walters,
Oklahoma while her cousin Eva and her husband Charlie Barger spent nights in his
fields with two quilts. He lost his farm, was relocated to Carlsbad, New Mexico and
traveled to El Paso., arriving in L.A. by bus. They walked 6 miles with shopping bags to
get to Margaret's house in L.A. and that is how she managed to end up living the rest
of her life in California. Before World War 2, she was living with her son in LaCrescenta
while he attended high school. During the war she got a job as a cook for the nurses
and doctors with the Army at Elmendorf, Alaska. She mentioned that she had to
sometimes take her glass eye out to warm it so it wouldn't crack from the cold up there.
She had said that she lost her eye to disease when she was a very young woman and
that she had refused to get it replaced with a glass eye for over a year. She wore a
patch and finally her family talked her into getting an eye; her initial thought was that
the patch looked better! Thelma mentioned that in the early days, she would have to
wait six hours while an artist hand painted her glass eye to match. By the 1970's, the
new plastic eye took less than two hours and was a perfect match. Thelma met her last
husband at Elmendorf. He was 20 years junior to her and they would spend the next
thirty years together. Thelma worked as a cook when they first moved back to
LaCrescenta. She said she spent six months working for one cafe just so she could
steal the meat loaf recipe (the secret ingredient was sausage!). She then promptly quit
and she and Ray started their own cafe. Eventually she didn't have to work anymore
as Ray was doing very well as a carpenter. She had a love for crossword puzzles and
wore out her dictionary. She didn't believe in organized religion; however, did read the
Bible. Her family was very important to her and she stayed close to her sisters and
brother. Thelma had her father living with her for awhile before he decided he would
stay with Joan and her husband. She got to meet her only great-grandchildren when
they were infants and lamented that her severe emphysema taxed her strength and
stopped her from being able to pick up even the eighteen-month old. Her
granddaughter's husband, John Beaver, met Thelma after they were married a few
months and hit it off. She showed him her 1968 California Special GTS Mustang and
he went over to his Volkswagon Beetle and kicked it. Thelma was called "The Little Old
Lady from LaCrescenta" for driving such a power car. Thelma said that the grocery
clerks would take bags out for her and would keep repeating, "This is YOUR car?"
When Thelma had John take a meat loaf out of her freezer so she could prepare he
and Margie dinner, he asked Thelma, "What happened? Why can't your granddaughter
cook?" She was remembered for her handmade flour tortillas and burritos but could
also make great meat loaf. Thelma was leathery skinned from her decades in the sun
but loved the desert climate. Her home sat on one of two lots; the other lot was a giant
cactus garden that people would drive by to view. She had it appraised in the 1960's
for over $10,000 due to her collection (not all legal) of so many rare varieties. She
would eat lemons straight from the tree, laughing when her grandchildren reacted with
contorted expressions. They would watch her weeding her cactus garden and bet
whether she would ever back into her giant barrel cactus. She never did. When her
granddaughter told her years later about this, she exclaimed that she hadn't realized
how ornery her grandkids were. Thelma was a honest and caring person who liked to
scare the neighborhood children into thinking she was mean. When her grandchildren
visited one summer, neighbor children could not believe that Thelma could be a
grandma. She made a neighbor boy return the ants he was taking out of an ant hill
outside her yard. "I told him to put them back because they were my ants!" she
recounted to her granddaughter. She didn't dislike children, she just didn't want the
neighbor children to be in her garden and yard. Thelma was very special to her son
and granddaughter and very, very missed. Thelma passed away at the age of 83 after
a 20 year struggle against emphysema. She had smoked five packs of Camel
cigarettes a day for years and said she still craved
Generation 4 (con't) them even when she was on oxygen. She was cremated and Ray kept her ashes
in the house until his death. After Ray died, his niece put Thelma's ashes into
Ray's coffin. oxygen. She was cremated and Ray kept her ashes in the house until
his death. v. LEONARD ANDERSON FRANKLIN was born on 30 Jun 1897 in Zephyr (Blanco), Blanket
County, Texas. He died on 06 Jan 1973 in Seminole, Seminole County, Oklahoma
(Age: 75). He married Alma Iola Elizabeth Henderson, daughter of Robert Edward
Lee Henderson and Sarah Elizabeth Tweedle on 09 Sep 1922 in Waurika,
Jefferson County, Oklahoma. She was born on 22 Nov 1905 in Belton, Texas. She
died on 14 Jan 1981 in Shawnee, Oklahoma (Age: 75).
Notes for Leonard Anderson Franklin: Leonard came to Oklahoma when he was 14 years old. He lived at Tipton, Frederick and Duncan before moving to Seminole in 1929. He was married at the age of 25 at Waurika to Alma. Mr. Franklin worked at several cleaning establishments in Seminole before joining Hammons Men's Store as a tailor. He worked at that store 30 years, taking two years out to serve in the U. S. Navy Seabees during World War II. Their three children honored them with a champagne breakfast on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. A tribute to the couple was as follows: "These two very dear people have quietly endured heartaches, trials and tribulations too numerous to mention and have still found time to provide all the love and affection that their children and grandchildren could ever have hoped for." On June 20, 1962 at the age of 65, he retired and operated Frank's Tailoring Shop for four years. He died of cancer on 6 January 1973.
vi. VIOLA HIXIE FRANKLIN was born on 28 Feb 1899 in Menardville, San Sabre County,
Texas. She died on 27 Jul 1999 in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California. She
married (1) CHARLES LOUIS SLOVER on 01 Nov 1916. He was born in 1874. She
married (2) EDWARD JOSEPH BEAUPRE, son of Edward Beaupre and
AntonietteLeveille on 03 Nov 1947. He was born on 03 Oct 1902 in Quebec,
Canada. He died on 04 Jul 1959 in Ventura County, California. She married (3)
CARL PAULSON on 16 Jul 1960. He was born on 26 Oct 1900 in Denmark; Iceland.
He died on 14 Feb 1975 in La Crescenta, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age at
Death: 74). She married ERNEST ELMER THOM SR.. He was born on 09 Oct 1872 in
Iowa City, Wright, Iowa, United States. He died on 21 Aug 1944 in Los Angeles,
Los Angeles County, California.
Notes for Viola Hixie Franklin: Viola celebrated her 100th birthday in February 1999 in LaCrescenta,
California. She was born Hixie Viola Franklin, the sixth of Anderson and Blanche's twelve children. She was born on a farm in Menardville, Texas and spent her childhood in Texas and Oklahoma. Her oldest sister, Nellie, wrote that their father got a house on the bank of the San Saba River and they moved in and Hixie was born there. In the meantime they had gotten acquainted with a family by the name of Crump. They were very friendly and nice; one girl was named Hixie. Mama named Hixie after her. She later changed her first name to Viola but most of her family still called her Hixie or Vi. She was pleased to find out that she had been born on her grandfather Anderson Green Franklin's birthday. She never got to know him while he was living.
She told her grandniece of an experience she had while she was in her late teens.
She found out that her father was going to punish her when she got home so she
decided not to go home. She read that a domestic agency was looking for young
women in a neighboring town so she proceeded to walk there. After many hours on
the tracks she was close to her destination when the town sheriff saw her. He asked
where she was going and why. She showed him the advertisement and he told her
that it was a false ad to entice girls into a brothel! She told him about
Generation 4 (con't) her father's severe punishments and the sheriff drove her home. He had her wait
in the car while he went into the house to talk to Papa. He told him what almost
happened to his daughter and threatened to arrest him if he punished her. She
said he never hit her again after that incident. While a young woman she had a very short marriage with Charles Slover. She
had a son, Douglas, who preceded her in death. Her younger son, Ernest Thom, lived in Torrance and visited her daily at her home. She lived in La Crescenta for over seventy years. Vi married his father in Mexico, where she lived for a time and learned to speak Spanish. Years later, she owned a Mexican restaurant, where she made the best chili rellanos in the area. It was called El Charro and was located in downtown Montrose.
Her family said that Vi liked to say that she was the sickly one as a child, but that
she lived the longest as an adult. Viola, herself was proud of reaching the century
mark, although she would occasionally say that she was still 99! She had charm, style,
and grace. She never got old in spirit, just in years. In her heart, she was still young:
playing on the beach with her children, exploring the countryside of Oklahoma and
Texas, having lunch with her friend, and laughing with her sisters. She passed away
quietly, still able to tell stories of her childhood days. She had her sense of humor to
the end, and she said that growing old was not easy, but she was doing fine,
surrounded by the beautiful cards and flowers from her friends and family. A short
time before she died, she compared herself to the old, wilted roses. Viola wrote in her
diary, "I have a mirror that is from ceiling to floor. It shows me such an old woman
lying on the bed. Everytime I look at the way she is staring at me, I stick my tongue
out at her and she sticks hers right back"! In February, she celebrated her 100th birthday with her friends and family. It was a
festive occasion and she enjoyed visiting with everyone. She often remarked that it
was a good thing that her friends were younger than she was! She said that, over the
years, she had such good friends. She said that they came all the way to Torrance to
visit her. She worried that it was such a long drive. She was so happy that they did not
forget her. Vi looked forward to her Ernie's visits, and the beautiful roses he would
bring her. She always tried to entice him into a game of blackjack, which, of course,
she liked to win. She also looked forward to visits from Ernie and Phyllis and their two
sons, Chris and Mike. She was proud of the way that they turned out, and remarked
that they, "Never gave us any trouble." She loved seeing Chris's wife, Kelley, and their
daughter, Angelika. She kept their pictures on her dresser, along with those of other
good friends and family members. He also enjoyed visits from Douglas's two
daughters, Nancy and Susie and their children. She visited with her sole remaining
sibling, Joan, over the phone. She loved Las Vegas and just a week prior to her passing, she talked about
getting her hands on the handle of a slot machine again! She said that she never came back a winner but she never lost much. When she could no longer go to Las Vegas, she asked her family to put $10 in quarters in a machine for her.
She loved to swim and her family has a picture of her in a swimming pool in her nineties. She was very independent. A couple of weeks before her death, she said that she thought she could still drive a car. She remembered how to shift but her family was not sure that she remembered how to put on the brakes!
Over good times and bad times, Viola was sustained by her faith. It was her faith
that gave her comfort in difficult times, and serenity in her old age. She moved to La
Crescenta in 1926, and became a member of the Christian Life Church in 1930. She
held many voluntary positions in the church. Among those positions were Sunday
School Superintendent and adult bible school teacher. In her diary, she recalled a
passage from the Bible, "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed
down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the
measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Luke 6:38) In 1997, she moved to a convalescent center in Torrance to be closer to
Ernie. In her diary, she wrote, "I am expecting Ernie to come any minute. He comes most every day. I did a good thing when I gave birth to him. My life would be very lonely without him. He has been a wonderful son. God bless him for always doing things for me."
Generation 4 (con't) Vi also wrote that it would be nice to see Jesus, who has guided her all through
her life. She said she wished that she had never displeased Him, but, through his
great mercy, He forgave her. "One of these days I shall see him face to face." She passed away in July 1999 and is buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale
next to her sister, Inez.
vii. DONNA DEANNE FRANKLIN was born on 15 Jun 1901 in Christoval, Tom Green
County, Texas. She died on 12 Nov 1989 in San Diego, San Diego County,
California (Age: 88). She married JOHN "JACK" O'CONNELL. He was born about
1892 in Ireland. He died before 1930 in Oklahoma. She married AL ARMSTRONG.
Notes for Donna Deanne Franklin: Donna was the seventh child out of twelve children. She was born with the name of Dora Dean and changed it to Donna Deane. She was living in Chicago in 1927. Her first marriage was to Jack O'Connell. They adopted three children: James, Barbara and Bruce. She was married second to Al Armstrong. She lived at 4290 Bullion Avenue in 29 Palms, California in 1974. Donna died in November 1989 in San Diego County and is buried at 29 Palms Cemetery.
viii. NONA JEAN FRANKLIN was born on 20 Aug 1903 in Christoval, Tom Green
County, Texas. She died on 14 Jul 1991 in San Diego County, California. She
married NORMAN L TOMPKINS. He was born on 18 Mar 1921 in Berkshire, Tioga,
New York USA. He died on 02 Apr 1958 in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut
USA. She married LEE BARRON. He was born about 1900.
Notes for Nona Jean Franklin: Nona was born on August 20, 1903 in Christoval, Texas, the eighth of twelve children of Anderson and Blanche (Stone) Franklin. Nona changed her name from Nannie Jane. She said that after she changed it, she found out that Nona means Auntie in Spanish. Her youngest sister, Joan, recalled that Nona and Inez came home late one evening. Papa was waiting to punish both of them. He whipped Inez but when it came for Nona's turn, she would have none of it. She grabbed the rope being used from the porch swing and wouldn't let go of it. Papa did his best to strike her with it but Nona was determined not to let go. Finally Papa gave up and went to bed. Nona had won the battle. She was always determined. Nona was also an actress first and foremost. She had stood in for silent screen actresses before going on the stage herself. She performed on stage in numerous productions back east in New York. One of her six husbands was an actor on stage with her. Occasionally she would appear in blackface and had photos of herself performing on stage. She sang and danced and at one time appeared in a knife-throwing act. Her sister Joan asked Nona why she let someone throw knives at her. Nona replied that he was really good at it and knew what he was doing. Nona was married several times; the only husband whose name is remembered is Lee Barons; although her last marriage was to a Mr. Tompkins. She humorously confided to her sister Thelma's granddaughter that she kept marrying because she wanted a baby and knew it wasn't her fault that she couldn't have one! Nona said that she was back east and adopted a baby boy by lying about her age. She said she got him within a couple of days of applying and that it was the happiest day of her life. She named him Glenn and always talked about him. Her favorite photo was of him at school as a young boy. She really enjoyed his twins after he grew up and married. In 1986, she met her grandniece's children, Tara and Ryan Beaver, from Washington state. She asked them if they wanted to play poker. When they didn't know what it was, she very dramatically exclaimed, "What! You can't be MY niece and nephew if you can't play poker!" She then very patiently
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taught the ten and eleven year olds how to play using match sticks to bet with.
Nona told of visiting her son in Tennessee and going by bus to the Grand Old Opry. She struck up a conversation with the bus driver who told her that the old
and infirm were always placed in the front row. Nona thought this was a great
acting opportunity and hobbled off of the bus, into the Opry, and into the front row. Nona was very happy when her son moved out to California. She had emphysema in her later years from smoking and attributed it to her doctor who had told her to start smoking to relieve stress. She spent her final years in the Villa Rancho Bernardo Convalescent center in San Diego, dying there on July 14, 1991, at the age of 87.
ix. INEZ JAN FRANKLIN was born on 16 Feb 1906 in Edith, Coke county, Texas.
She died on 02 Feb 1979 in Orange, Orange County, California. She married
DAVID MARTIN. He was born about 1903.
Notes for Inez Jan Franklin:
Aunt Inez was born Inez Doris Franklin on February 16, 1906 in Edith, Coke County, Texas. She changed her middle name to Jan although she sometimes signed artwork as Jan Martin. She was an accomplished artist with well over 15 years' experience and had a showing at the Verdugo Hills (California) Art Association of her watercolors and oils. Inez worked in oils, watercolors, cassein, just about all painting media. Her paintings ranged from portraiture to landscapes and still-lifes. For an interview with her job as an inspector at an electronics plant in Pasadena, she mentioned that an oil portrait represented about a month's work with brushes and palette knife, while she might spend as short a time as one afternoon on a watercolor scene. Inez never had any formal training and chose painting as her hobby and taught herself the intricacies of fine arts and the technical skill that go with talent in painting.
She was married to Dave Martin, a sailor, for a long time, according to her sisters Vi and Joan. They divorced and she never remarried. They never had children of their own; however, she was well-known to her many nieces and nephews as a wonderful person. She is remembered best as living in La Crescenta with her dogs. Her last dog was Mitzi. She and Mitzi made all children feel welcome at her home. She wrote Thelma's granddaughter for many years and sent her an afghan she made. Although she sold many of her paintings, Inez gave artwork to her sisters and brothers and their children.
She cared for her father, Anderson, for many years until he died at the age of
96 at her home. Inez died at the age of 72 at UCI Medical Center in the city of
Orange on February 2, 1979. She is buried at Forest Lawn Park in Glendale. x. JOHN ABE "BUSTER" FRANKLIN was born on 21 Jan 1908 in Stanton, Martin County,
Texas. He died on 03 Feb 1994 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. He
married Elva Woulanda Adams on 02 Jun 1941 in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, California. She was born in Madison, Greenwood County, Kansas.
Notes for John Abe "Buster" Franklin: John Abe "Buster" Franklin was born January 21, 1908 in Stanton, Martin County,
Texas. He was the tenth of twelve children born to Anderson and Blanche (Stone)
Franklin. He was 33 years old when he married Elva Adams on June 2, 1941 in Glendale, California. He served in the Army from 1942 through 1945. Buster and
Elva had a son and a daughter. He worked for 22 years with the City of Glendale
in Sewer Maintenance. He was residing in Burbank when he passed away on
February 3, 1994. He was 86 years old. Burial was at Valhalla Memorial Park in
North Hollywood on February 8, 1994. xi. MARGARET ELLA FRANKLIN was born on 10 Feb 1910 in Throckmorton,
Generation 4 (con't) Throckmorton County, Texas. She died on 24 Jan 1996 in Laguna Hills, Orange
County, California. She married (1) T J VANCE, son of George A. Vance and
Jessie A. Sulliman on 15 Apr 1943 in Lonoke, Lonoke, Arkansas. He was born
on 04 May 1917 in Wickliffe, Ballard, Kentucky. He died on 21 May 1985 in
Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina (Age: 68). She married XOCHITL YATES
ZEVELY. He was born on 19 Oct 1903 in Oregon. He died on 13 Jul 1979 in Dade
County, Florida (Age: 75).
Notes for Margaret Ella Franklin: Margaret lived on 390 Kenilworth Road in Ashville, North Carolina in 1974. She moved to California after the death of her husband, T.J., in 1985. She was in San Juan Capistrano and lived near her sister, Joan, before her death in 1996. Margaret had no children. Joan remembers her sister as a dainty sewer. The portrait that Joan painted of her was given to her great grand niece, Margie Allred. Margaret's birth name was Ella. She spent her early years in Texas. Like most of her eleven brothers and sisters, she went by another name. In the 1930's, she was briefly married to X. Y. Zeveley, whom divorced her. She was 17 years old when her three-year-old nephew, Billy Allred, came to live with her parents. He always loved her and named his daughter for her.
xii. JOAN CAROL FRANKLIN was born on 04 Sep 1912 in Duncan, Stephens County,
Oklahoma. She died on 25 Mar 2000 in Capistrano Beach, Orange County,
California. She married Chester Louis "Chet" Shuler, son of Leo L Schunicht and
Katherine Meehan in 1935. He was born on 18 Aug 1912 in Jefferson, Kentucky.
He died on 10 Mar 1995 in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California.
Notes for Joan Carol Franklin: Emma Jean was the youngest of 12 children born to Anderson and Blanche Franklin.
She was born and raised in Oklahoma and was the last child left at home. In high
school she was a member of an all girl's basketball team and was working as a clerk in
1934 when her mother moved to California. She continued living with her father for
about six months then he sold his blacksmith shop and they both went to California to
join her mother. She met Chet Shuler and married him in
1935. During World War 2, she worked to support the war effort. She was a member of
the Woman's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America in Culver City. She
corresponded with Chet in Panama for the duration of the war. For eleven years she
cared for her widowed father in her and Chet's two-bedroom home. They were elated
when they were allowed to adopt an infant boy. They named him Paul and asked
Anderson to not be at home when the adoption overseers came to inspect the house
because they were supposed to guarantee the baby had his own room. Joan's father
was livid and packed his bags and moved in with another of his nine daughters. He
never stayed with them ever again! No matter, Chet and Joan raised Paul, who had
been a joyous addition to their lives. Meanwhile, in the 1960's, Chet presented Joan
with a present of paints and canvas. Joan laughed and tucked the gift into a closet for
quite a long time. Joan's sister, Inez, was the painter, not her. Chet recognized that
she also had a creative streak. Finally, Joan dug out her new paints and began a
fruitful career as a painter. She sold many of her canvases in all types of medium and
gave a large amount away. She would paint neighbor children and relatives' portraits.
Examples of each type of medium she worked were always on display in her home in
San Juan Capistrano - oils, watercolors, and sculpture. When Joan visited her nephew
Ernie Thom's home, she found a gallery of her paintings he had purchased. Joan was
very happy to see her work on display. She and Chet celebrated their 60th anniversary
together before finding out that he had a terminal illness. Since his passing, Joan
would have an evening toast to her Chet each evening - a very strong martini. Her
step-grandson lived with her in San Juan Capistrano. She was very close to her late
son's wife, who helped her celebrate her 87th birthday in September, 1999.
Generation 4 (con't) Joan was the last of her immediate family to pass away. She died March 25,
2000 and her daughter-in-law had her ashes scattered.
33. AMANDA A. "MANDY"4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 02 Aug
1868 in Georgia. She died between Jul 1903-1908. She married an unknown spouse in 1893.
Notes for Amanda A. "Mandy" Franklin: Amanda was born in 1868 in Georgia. She was married to Mr. Adcox and had a son, Abraham,
in August 1895 at the age of 27. She and her son were living with her parents in Murray County,
Georgia, in 1900. Her brother, John, recalled that she died in July 1903. Her nephew indicated in
a 1907 application form that her residence was North Carolina. Her father was her son's
guardian in 1908.
Amanda A. "Mandy" Franklin had the following child:
i. ABRAHAM5 ADCOX was born on 06 Jul 1895 in Georgia.
Notes for Abraham Adcox: Abraham appears to have been orphaned by the age of 8. His
grandfather, Anderson Green Franklin, was his guardian.
34. WILLIAM E.4 FRANKLIN (Anderson Green
3, Abram "Abe"
2, John
1) was born on 13 Aug 1871 in
Pickens County, Georgia. He died between 1930-1970. He married Mary Pitts between 1891-1892 in Georgia. She was born in 1874 in Georgia. She died after 1930.
Notes for William E. Franklin: The youngest known son of Anderson Green Franklin, William rented a farm in Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia. He was married and by 1910, the father of seven children. He helped care for his Civil-War pensioned father in his latter years. William and Mary were living in Helena, Telfair County, Georgia in 1920. Four children were still at home: John B, 19, Luther C, 15, Julia M, 13, and Ernest A, 10. William owned his home. William and Mary are last found in the 1930 U.S. Census in Crisp County, Georgia in 1930. His son Ernest H., age 20, was living with him.
Notes for Mary Pitts: Mary was the mother of 7 children, all living at the time of the 1910 census. She could read
and write.
William E. Franklin and Mary Pitts had the following children:
i. CHARLES A.5 FRANKLIN was born on 24 Apr 1893 in Georgia. He died on 03 Jul
1972 in Mc Rae, Telfair, Georgia, USA.
Notes for Charles A. Franklin: Possible match: Name: Charles A Franklin of
Death: Telfair Gender: M Race: W Residence: Telfair Certificate: 024940
Death Date: 03 Jul 1972 County
Age: 79 years County of
ii. JULIA M. FRANKLIN was born on 30 Dec 1906 in Georgia. She married BARNEY
J TAYLOR. He was born about 1903 in Georgia. He died in Florida.
iii. ERNEST H. FRANKLIN was born in Sep 1909 in Georgia.
iv. JOHN B. FRANKLIN was born on 01 Dec 1900 in Georgia.
v. LUTHER E. FRANKLIN was born on 07 Jul 1904 in Georgia. He died on 22 Jun 1961
Generation 4 (con't) (Age: 56). He married ETHEL. She was born about 1907 in Georgia.
vi. ODESSA M. FRANKLIN was born on 14 Jan 1896 in Georgia. She died on 15 Feb
1980 in Highlands, Florida, United States. She married EDWARD ARTHUR TARPLEY.
He was born on 25 Dec 1891 in Dooley, Franklin, Georgia, United States. He
died in May 1956 in Broward, Florida, United States.
vii. REV. ARTHUR WILLIAM FRANKLIN was born on 18 May 1898 in Georgia. He died on
09 Dec 1974 in Wrightsville, Johnson, Georgia, USA. He married RITA FRANKLIN.
She was born about 1904 in South Carolina. He married RADER FRANKLIN. She
was born about 1905 in South Carolina.
35. JAMES HARRISON "JIM"4 FRANKLIN (Jacob
3 Jr., Jacob
2, John
1) was born on 25 Nov 1850 in Cherokee
County, North Carolina. He died on 17 Nov 1896 in Walker, Georgia, United States. He married Martha Adelade Hefner, daughter of John Henry Hefner and Margaret Jane Thompson on 16 Feb 1871 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. She was born on 17 Feb 1854 in Henderson
County, North Carolina. She died on 06 Jun 1921 in Etowah County, Alabama, USA.
Notes for James Harrison "Jim" Franklin: James H. (Jim) Franklin son of Jacob Jr. by his first wife was born in Cherokee County, NC somewhere near the Franklin Mountain in the year 1852, and was married to Adelade Hefner on Feb. 16, 1871 and set up a home in the Hefner Cove. It was here where their first three children were born. Mary C., Julius E., and John R. Then the Family moved and settled near Talking Rock, Ga. near Bryants Store, later called Blaine. There another son was born named Mack, who died from an injury by a plow striking him in the side. He was buried in the Town Creek Cemetery. William T., Charlie M., Nora, and Albert C. were born in this section. It was here that Mary C. married William Shields and went to Cherokee County, NC, and set up a home. she reared one girl, Lillie, two boys, Harley and Ralph. She died Dec. 28, 1945 and was buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. The Franklin famly left this part of Georgia soon after Mary C. married and settled in Walker County, Ga. in what is called Macklemoores Cove at the foot of Pigeon Mountain. It was here that Jesse H. their last child was born. And when Jesse was a small child his father James H. Franklin died and was buried in the Estelle Cemetery, Estelle being a small iron ore mining town. [source: Patrick E Franklin (1942-1999) Franklin History, 1998]
Notes for Martha Adelade Hefner: Adelade Franklin returned from Texas with her son John and his four children in 1918 and lived on year in Walker County, Ga. She then moved to Sand Mountain, near Boaz, Alabama. She
died here in 1921 and was buried at Thrasher Cemetery.
James Harrison "Jim" Franklin and Martha Adelade Hefner had the following children: i. JOHN ROBERT
5 FRANKLIN was born on 15 Dec 1875 in Hefner Cove,
Cherokee County, North Carolina. He married FANNIE COLLINS.
ii. MARY CALSINA FRANKLIN was born on 13 Apr 1871 in Hefner Cove, Cherokee
County, North Carolina. She died on 28 Dec 1945 in Cherokee County,
North Carolina. She married WILLIAM SHIELDS.
iii. WILLIAM T. FRANKLIN was born on 14 Sep 1881 in Talking Rock, Pickens, Georgia,
USA. He died in Nov 1956 in Walker, Georgia, United States. He married CORA MCKAIG.
iv. MACK L. FRANKLIN was born on 14 Feb 1877 in Talking Rock, Pickens,
Georgia, USA. He died on 10 Jun 1890.
Notes for Mack L. Franklin:
Generation 4 (con't) Mack died from an injury by a plow striking him in the side. He was buried in
the Town Creek Cemetery. [source: Franklin History by Patrick Franklin of
Tulsa, 1998].
v. NORA FRANKLIN was born on 13 Feb 1887 in Talking Rock, Pickens, Georgia,
USA. She married HOUSTON HISE.
vi. CHARLEY MONTGOMERY FRANKLIN was born on 21 Sep 1884 in Talking Rock,
Pickens, Georgia, USA. He died on 25 Jul 1912 in Bosque, Texas. He married
MILLIE LOUISA SOWELL. She was born on 30 Jan 1890 in Texas. She died on 14
Feb 1971 in Iredell, Bosque, Texas, USA.
Notes for Charley Montgomery Franklin: Charlie M. Franklin with his mother and two brothers, Albert and Jesse and their
grandmother Hefner left Georgia and settled in Texas where John R. Franklin was
living. Charlie M. married in a few years. He died at an early age and his wife Mille
and three girls, Mary, Christine, and Vesita Lee and one boy, Charlie Gus live near
Valley Mill, Texas. [source: Patrick E Franklin (1942-1999) Franklin History, 1998]
vii. JULIUS EDWARD FRANKLIN was born on 19 Apr 1873 in Hefner Cove, Cherokee
County, North Carolina. He died on 10 Jun 1931. He married ELIZABETH
"BETTY" FRY. She was born on 19 Apr 1883. She died on 16 Jun 1944.
viii. ALBERT C. FRANKLIN was born on 15 May 1889 in Talking Rock, Pickens,
Georgia, USA. He died on 30 Mar 1925 in Marion, Grant County, Indiana.
Notes for Albert C. Franklin: Albert C. volunteered in the Army in World War I serving with heavy artillery He
was on the battle fields from July 1918 until Armistice Day. During his service he was gassed and shell shocked which resulted in a disease that caused his death in a government hospital in Marion, Indiana. He served in the Army for the occupation in Germany one year after the close of the war. He was buried in Estelle Cemetery beside his father. He was never married. [source: Franklin History by Patrick Franklin of Tulsa, 1998].
ix. JESSE H. FRANKLIN was born on 02 Jun 1892 in Walker County, Georgia. He died
on 29 Jun 1976 in La Fayette, Walker, Georgia, USA. He married Hattie Irene
York, daughter of John Martin York and Margaret Jane Bryson on 07 Aug 1922 in
Polk, Tennessee. She was born on 02 Jul 1893 in Ashe County, North Carolina.
She died on 25 Mar 1961 in Polk County, Tennessee, USA.
Notes for Jesse H. Franklin: Jesse H. Franklin volunteered in the regular Army serving about seven years. He
served one year in the Army for the occupation of Germany after the war. He
married Hattie York Ellis in Isabella, Tenn. He has two step sons, Leonard and C. J.
Ellis of Isabella, Tenn., one boy, James and one girl, Winona, of Rossville, Ga.
36. LOUIS M.4 FRANKLIN (William
3, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born on 07 Mar 1846 in Cherokee County,
North Carolina. He died on 20 Nov 1918 in Humphreys County, Tennessee. He married Sarah S. Murrell on 31 Aug 1865 in Dickson, Tennessee. She was born on 22 Apr 1845 in Dickson, Tennessee. She died on 25 May 1924 in Humphreys, Tennessee (Age: 79).
Generation 4 (con't) Notes for Louis M. Franklin:
Louis M. Franklin's Eastern Cherokee Application [10801] is extremely hard to follow regarding his
listing of relatives. The application asks him to list his grandparents' children; of which he lists Jane,
Sarah, Mary, Hannah, Lina, Sabra Ann, George Washington, Wesley, John, William, Louisa (married
Morgan), Mary J, Caroline, Elizabeth and Susaner Franklin - he does not indicate which set of
Franklin grandparents they belong to. He signed with an "X" with H. C. Richardson as his witness. It
appears that both of his parents' surnames were Franklin; it is unknown whether they were cousins or
related to each other. Examination of relative's applications may clear this up. His application was grouped with applications 10802, 19647, 19648 and 18862; the
applicants' names are not known at this time. The following is a statement from his application: --------------------- Applic. no. 10801 State of Tennessee)
Dickson County) On this the 13 day of Feby. 1908 personally appeared before me W. R. Boyett a notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid commissioned and qualified as such. Louis M. Franklin a citizen of Humphries County Tennessee aperson with whom I am well acquainted and whom I certify to be credible, respectable, and Trusworthey and whose statement when made under oath are entitled to full faith and credit in any court of justice in the state or in any department of the United Stats Government. The said Louis M. Franklin having been by me first sworn according to law depose and says That he is a Second cousin of Celina Franklin and Malinda Franklin their Father John Franklin and his Father William Franklin were first cousins and his father William Franklin Jr and his mother Mary J. Franklin and Celina Franklin & Malinda Franklin refird to in the hereunto atached letter is his own aunts they are his fathers William Franklin Jrs sisters and his mother Mary J. Franklin was the daughter of William Franklin Ser. old man John Franklin Willliam Franklin Ser. Jacob Franklin Thomas Franklin Abe Franklin & Isaac Franklin were al brothers and Cherokee Indian & lived and died in Cherokee County North Carolina. He states that he dose not no whether his Father William Franklin Jr. and his mother Mary J. Franklin were enrolled in Cherokee County in 1851 or not if they were they were enrolled under the above names. He cannot say why he was not enrolled in 1851 as he was very small at that time their was not any of his ancesters slaves. He cannot state whether any of his grandparents were ever enrolled or not. He states that these old Indians were left under William Thomas on(or) Nallie River near Murphey Cherokee County North Carolina. Sworn to and subscribed before me by Louis M. Franklin this the 13 of Feby. 1908. I further certify I am not directly or indirectly interested in the prosecution of this case. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the official seal of my office this 13 day of Feby. 1908. W. R. Boyett, Louis M. X Franklin Witness to mark - H.C. Richardson, Jessie Morgan ** Louis M. Franklin was born March 7, 1846 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. He married
August 31, 1865 in Dickson, Tennessee to Sarah S. Murrell. They had two sons, George B. and
William Ansel Franklin and lived in Civil District #9 near Tennessee City in Humphreys County,
Tennessee. He died November 20, 1918 and was buried the next day in Sanders Graveyard.
Louis M. Franklin and Sarah S. Murrell had the following children:
i. GEORGE B.5 FRANKLIN was born about 1867 in Tennessee. He died in 1890 (Age
at Death: 23).
ii. WILLIAM ANSEL FRANKLIN was born on 28 Aug 1869 in Tennessee. He died on 13
Feb 1955 in Dickson, Tennessee, United States. He married Violene Morgan on
28 Sep 1890 in Dickson County, Tennessee, USA. She was born on 09 Jun 1875
in Tennessee. She died on 06 Feb 1958 in Dickson, Dickson, Tennessee.
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37. JOHN E.4 FRANKLIN (William J.
3 Sr, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born on 05 Jun 1858 in Georgia. He
died on 22 Aug 1944 in Murray, Georgia. He married (1) JOSEPHEN "JOSIE" MULL, daughter of
Jacob M. "Jake" Mull and Edna "Edney" in 1868. She was born in Jun 1865 in Georgia. She died after Nov 1906 in Ga.. He married an unknown spouse in 1868.
John E. Franklin had the following child:
i. DAISY5 FRANKLIN was born in Jan 1889 in Georgia.
John E. Franklin and Josephen "Josie" Mull had the following children:
ii. JASSON FERT (FERDINAND) FRANKLIN was born on 15 Sep 1879 in Fannin Ga.. He
died on 15 Apr 1962 in Murray County, Georgia. He married VICTORIA "VICK"
POTEET. She was born in Mar 1886 in Murray, Georgia, United States. She died
on 08 Jun 1935 in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee.
iii. ROSEY R. FRANKLIN was born in 1881.
iv. WILLIAM JASPER FRANKLIN JR was born in Jan 1883 in Fannin County, Georgia. He
married IDA MAE. She was born about 1900 in Georgia.
v. THOMAS L. FRANKLIN was born in 1885.
i. DAISY5 FRANKLIN was born in Jan 1889 in Georgia.
38. JAMES P.4 FRANKLIN (William J.
3 Sr, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born in Dec 1861 in Georgia. He died
on 06 Jun 1930 in Fannin, Georgia. He married (2) ELIZABETH in 1882. She was born in Apr
1874 in Georgia. She died on 10 May 1938 in Fannin County, Georgia, Mobile Cemetary.
James P. Franklin and Elizabeth had the following child:
i. HARRIET5 FRANKLIN-BROWN was born in Dec 1884 in Georgia. She died on 02 Apr
1963 in fannin co., ga.-buried @ mobile baptist church cem..
39. TARY T.4 FRANKLIN (William J.
3 Sr, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born in 1870 in Fannin County, Georgia.
He died after Aug 1907. He married RADY. She was born about 1881.
Tary T. Franklin and Rady had the following child:
i. I. J.5 FRANKLIN was born in 1904.
40. THOMAS LUTHER "LUTHER"4 FRANKLIN (William J.
3 Sr, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born in 1872 in Fannin
County, Georgia. He died between 1943-1972 in Georgia. He married LENA ARP. She was born
on 18 Jan 1878 in Georgia. She died on 20 Sep 1942 in Fannin, Georgia.
Thomas Luther "Luther" Franklin and Lena Arp had the following children: i. OTIS CHARLES
5 FRANKLIN was born on 14 Dec 1903 in Blue Ridge, Georgia. He
died on 19 Jan 1914 in Copperhill, Polk, Tennessee.
Notes for Otis Charles Franklin: Otis died from pneumonia at the age of ten years. He was born December 14,
1903 in Blue Ridge, Georgia and died January 19, 1914 in Copperhill,
Tennessee. His tombstone reads, "The last words of Otis were always speak the
truth, do the best you can and obey your father and mother."
ii. CATHERINE J FRANKLIN was born about 1916 in Tennessee.
41. SARAH J.4 FRANKLIN (William J.
3 Sr, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born in 1874 in Georgia. She died
Generation 4
(con't) between 1894-1899. She married MR. ROSE.
Notes for Mr. Rose: Sarah J. Franklin is listed as Sarah Rose, mother of Bertha,
Mr. Rose and Sarah J. Franklin had the following child:
i. BERTHA MAY5 ROSE was born in 1893 in Fannin County, Georgia.
Notes for Bertha May
Rose: Name Notes:
Bertha May Rose, born in 1893 in Fannin County, Georgia, was the daughter of
Sarah Franklin Rose. Her father's name is not known; however, both he and her
mother probably died while she was a young child. By 1907, her maternal uncle,
Thomas Luther Franklin, was her guardian. She was then 14 years of age. [There
may be guardianship records in the county courthouse]. By 1910, she was
residing in the household of her maternal uncle, John E. Franklin.
42. IDA LAURA4 FRANKLIN (William J.
3 Sr, John
2 Jr., John
1) was born on 24 Aug 1878 in Georgia. She
died on 13 Apr 1947 in Fayette, Kentucky, USA. She married an unknown spouse in 1894. She married WILLIAM L. MCENTIRE. He was born in 1870 in North Carolina, USA. He died in 1907 in Dalton, Georgia, USA. She married ELBERT B. ROBINSON. He was born in Sep 1884 in Clay County, Kentucky, USA. He died on 15 Mar 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Ida Laura Franklin had the following child:
i. ELBERT B5 ROBINSON was born about 1908 in Tennessee.
William L. McEntire and Ida Laura Franklin had the following children:
i. WILLIE LUTHER5 MCENTIRE was born on 02 Sep 1898 in Georgia. He died in Jul
1968 in Irvine, Estill, Kentucky, USA. He married EVA. She was born about 1902 in Georgia.
ii. CHARLES RUSSELL MCENTIRE was born on 09 Aug 1896 in Murray County, Georgia,
USA. He died on 29 Apr 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Elbert B. Robinson and Ida Laura Franklin had the following children: i. LORENA
5 ROBINSON was born on 09 Aug 1914 in Ky.. She died on 05 Jun 2008 in Ft.
Mitchell, Kenton, Kentucky, USA.
ii. ROY ROBINSON was born about 1916 in KY. He died about 1970 in
Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
iii. JOSEPH ROBINSON was born on 22 Dec 1911 in KY. He died in Jun 1980
in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
iv. ELBERT B. ROBINSON JR. was born on 21 Jul 1907 in Etowah, Mc Minn,
Tennessee, USA. He died on 12 Aug 1960 in Lorain, Lorain, Ohio, USA.
v. BLISS ROBINSON was born about 1909 in Tennessee, USA. He died about 1967
in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
44. JAMES C.4 FRANKLIN (William Jacob
3, William
2 Sr., John
1) was born on 06 Jan 1871 in Isabella,
Tennessee. He died on 17 May 1972 in Gainesville, Hall Co., Georgia. He married (1) NANNIE LOU HELTON in Hall Co., Ga. She was born about 1872 in Kentucky. He married NANNIE. She was born about 1891 in Georgia.
James C. Franklin and Nannie Lou Helton had the following child:
Generation 4 (con't) i. IDELL
5 FRANKLIN was born about 1919 in Georgia. She died in 1969 in
Gainesville, Georgia.
This is her tree document-
Possible relative of the Bird/Byrd Franklin line??