SUNDAY'S OBITUARY - Martin Frampton, 4th great granduncle commits suicide

 

Martin Frampton is my maternal 4^th great granduncle.  He was the fourth son born to John Frampton, Jr and Anna Barbara MARTIN.  There were 8 children in the family: Rachel, Ephraim, Elijah, Martin, Isaac, Edward, Sarah and William.

Martin was born near Lewistown, Pennsylvania 13 Jun 1788.  At age 30, Martin married Sara MANN, daughter of Robert Mann and Jane (maiden name unknown) in 1818 in Pennsylvania.  Details are limited as I have not located an actual marriage record. 

Only a record in…..

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

Name: Martin Frampton

Gender: male

Birth Place: PA

Birth Year: 1788

Spouse Name: Sarah Mann

Marriage Year: 1818

Marriage State: PA

Number Pages: 1   

Martin was said to be a Farmer according to the 1850 census.  In that household are Martin, his wife Sarah and children Martin, Gardner, Jane, Caroline, Isaac and Alice.  Those were the youngest of 12 children born to this couple. 

Six years later on 16 Dec 1856, Martin took his own life.  He was 68 years old.

According the the newspaper reports, Martin had gone partially blind. Then he went to Cincinnati, Ohio and an occultist destroyed his sight, in attempting to restore it. 

Another newspaper article says the following:

"Martin Frampton, an old and wealthy citizen of Lawrence County, Ohio, committed suicide on last Tuesday evening, by hanging himself in an out house, next his residence at the mouth of Simms Creek.  He lost his sight some time since."

Martin’s actual obituary was published in the Ironton Register on 18 Dec 1856. No image available.

FRAMPTON, MARTIN ESQ.----- I.R. DEC. 18, 1856

Committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence, mouth of Symmes Creek, on Tuesday of this week. Cause: severe affliction with his eyes for a year or two, from which for some time past he has been quite blind, producing a very depressing effect upon him. Mr. Frampton came from Beaver county, Pa., to this county, soon after its organization, in the next year, we believe, 1818, and located at Burlington, then just made the county seat. At the time of his death he was about 65 years old.

It's always difficult for the family when a loved one dies.  But, death by suicide always seems very tragic. Martin left behind his wife of 38 years and 7 children known to be living at that time.  Sarah never remarried and on died 18 Oct 1869 at age 70.

You may visit Martin’s findagrave memorial here #66805943

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TOMBSTONE TUESDAY ~ Anna Barbara Martin–1748-1822–My 5th great grandmother (this is Martin’s mother)

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY–Triplet daughters of Elijah & Rebecca Frampton (this is Martin’s older brother)

If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post, please get in touch.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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FRIDAY FINDS ~ Quaker Church Records - 1701 - My maternal 8th great grandmother, Elizabeth Potter & her daughter Sarah Frampton

Early Quaker meeting house in New Jersey

Today I was reviewing my Frampton family.  What records do I have?  What records do I need?  What records can I locate?

I came to my 8th great grandparents, William Kent Frampton and Elizabeth Potter.  They married 27 Jul 1680 in Newport, Rhode Island.  Shortly thereafter they moved to Phildelphia, Pennsylvania.  William was acquainted with the well known Pennsylvania Quaker settler, William Penn.   You can read about their connection here William Penn conveys land to William Frampton 1684

Sadly, my 8th great grandfather, William Frampton died 3 Jul 1686 at the age of 43.  This left his widow Elizabeth with 3 young children; Elizabeth, age 5, Thomas, age 3 and Sarah, age 2.

 

As with most women in those days, who were left widowed with young children, Elizabeth remarried.  She married Richard Basnett on 30 Sep 1688.  They had a son, William Feb 1689.  At the time of young William’s birth the couple was living in New Jersey.  I wonder if they had named their son after Elizabeth’s deceased husband, William Frampton.

I don’t know a lot about Richard Basnett, his birth, his occupation etc.  What I do know is that he died just six short years after his marriage to Elizabeth.  He died 8 Oct 1694 in Colonial New Jersey.  He did leave a will naming Elizabeth as an heir.

Now Elizabeth is widowed again and has not 3 children to raise, but her 5 year old son from her marriage to Richard Basnett, as well.  Richard had a daughter by his first wife and some records say that Elizabeth was also raising her.  That makes 6 children under 10 left in her care.

While Elizabeth didn’t remarry right away, she did eventually marry a third time.  This time to Thomas Gardener on 6 Oct 1701 in Burlington, Colonial New Jersey.

I have located the Quaker church records regarding their desire to marry and the church granting that request.  While I was looking at the record I also noticed, on the same page, the request to marry by Elizabeth’s daughter Sarah (daughter of her first husband William).

TIP:  We’ve all been told this over and over, but it bears repeating.  Always look at all the entries on any record where multiple events are listed. 

 (Please click on the image to enlarge it)

 Both couples did marry.  I am still looking for information on Thomas Gardener/Gardiner.  I don’t know anything about him.

Please contact me if you are related/descended from him and have any information.

 

Elizabeth Potter Frampton Basnett Gardener died about 1711.  Did she outlive her third husband?  I don’t know….yet.

 

When we are researching our ancestors this far back we generally have to rely on church records, probate records, books or other historical writings.  This doesn’t always make it easy to find information.

I don’t know about you, but I try to picture what their lives were like back in those colonial days.  So much hardship and danger.  I watch any historical shows or documentaries I can find on TV to learn more.  I also enjoy reading books about that time in history. 

Here's a website I located about Quaker research in New Jersey - 1677-1750

 

If you are a Frampton descendant, I’d love to hear from you.  Let’s exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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FRIDAY FINDS ~ Hospital Register for Deaths of Volunteers in the Civil War–J.W. Frampton died 1864

I’ve located a Civil War hospital record for J. W. Frampton.  This record was located on Ancestry.com U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865  I’ve not seen these hospital registers before.  I was actually searching for records of another Frampton ancestor when I saw this one.



This record is indexed as J. H. Frampton.  I believe in looking at this record, and comparing the “H” and “W” written on it, that this is J.W. Frampton.

Name: J H Frampton
Death Date: 6 Jun 1864
Death Place: 2 Corps Field Hospital
Enlistment State: Pennsylvania
Rank: Private
Company: I
Regiment: 84 Penn Inft
Box Number: 49

Here is John's headstone from FindAGrave #40243488

Headstone for John W. Frampton and his brother Isaac - used with permission from Caz who placed the image on FindAGrave

This man died of a gunshot wound.  I have Framptons who originated in Pennsylvania and later moved to Ohio and Virginia/West Virginia.  Is this young man one of them?  At this point I don’t know.  Further research is needed.
 
Have you seen these hospital records before?  It seems like I’m always turning up new records.  Think how many are online that we don’t know about. Will we ever see them all?  I doubt it.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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FRIDAY FINDS ~ Newspaper article–David Frampton, Rebel Prisoner–Dec 1861

I’ve been looking at my Frampton line today and especially studying their involvement in the Civil War.  They lived in southeastern Ohio and over into Virginia (what became West Virginia).

I know that there are “some” older newspapers available on newspapers.com, but I haven’t been particularly lucky in locating too many that mention my ancestors.
 
Today, I got lucky and got one single hit.  And, it was not in an Ohio or Virginia newspaper, as I would have expected.



I entered “David Frampton” with the years 1850-1865 and found the following article about his being transported by steamer from Guyandotte, Virginia to Cincinnati, along with other prisoners.  The prisoner, Charles T. Everett was the husband of David’s sister, Rebecca.  I’ve got to think that Peter Everett is also somehow related to Charles Everett, but don’t know for sure.



Transcription of the article:
“The steamer Crickett arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday with six rebel prisoners from Guyandotte, Va.  Their names are Charles T. Everett, Peter Everett, David Frampton, Robert Reynolds, Wm. C. Rogers and Stephen C. Strother.  These men, it is said, are among the most prominent citizens of the Guyandotte neighborhood, one or two of them being quite wealthy – Louisville Journal.”

David Frampton was the son of my 4th great granduncle, Isaac Frampton, who was an early settler in Lawrence County, Ohio.
 
I located a couple of other references today on Ancestry and Fold3 that indicate David Frampton was a southern sympathizer.  More about that soon.

Just one newspaper article was all I located, but it is another piece of evidence to prove what I’m working on with this family.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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TOMBSTONE TUESDAY–Triplet daughters of Elijah & Rebecca Frampton

Photo used with permission of Nancy Ann Mull Buchanan

What is more tragic than the death of a child?  In this case it was the death of triplet daughters born to Rev. Elijah FRAMPTON, Sr. and his wife Rebecca CLARK.
 
Rev. Elijah Frampton and his wife Rebecca are my 4th great grand uncle and aunt.  They married on 28 Oct 1822 in Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio.

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Marriage record of Elijah Frampton & Rebecca Clark

Rev. Elijah & his wife Rebecca had a son, William Walker Frampton born in 1824.  There was possibly another son born either before or after William, but I cannot locate a date.  All I’ve located is a reference to his name, Isaac Clark Frampton and that he was the child of Elijah and Rebecca.

The triplets, all girls, were referenced on a Rootsweb page.  From that lead I located a headstone for the girls on FindAGrave.com.
Their memorials are # 47412086, 47412091 and 47412096

These infants died on 30 Apr 1827.  It appears that yet another tragedy occurred in this small family when their mother Rebecca died on 5 Jun 1827, just a little over a month after the deaths of the infants.  I cannot locate a cause of death for either the triplets or their young (29 yr. old) mother.  However, I do wonder if the mother died of complications from the birth of the triplets.

Rev. Elijah Frampton - This photo can be found in the book The Frampton Family by J. S. Wrightnour, D.D. page 101

The Rev. Elijah remarried the following year on 8 May 1828 to Lucinda  Trowbridge, and they had four children together.  Elijah lived to be 90 years old.

I wonder how many triplet births survived back in those early days?
I have further research to do on this family and hope to learn more about them.

Here are some reference materials with information about this family.

• Early Days in Greenbush with Biographical Sketches…by William L. Sapp.  Page 143
• Circuit Rider Days Along the Ohio….by The Methodist Book Concern. Page 218
• Sons of the American Revolution Applications – Application for John Ross Frampton, filed in 1917 in Iowa – image
available on Ancestry.com 

PLEASE contact me if you think you might be related, even remotely, to anyone mentioned in this blog.

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Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY TRIP - Day 2 - A RED LETTER DAY!

I'M IN SALT LAKE CITY AT THE

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY!

Hello again.  This is my story of Day 2 here at the Family History Library.

I decided I would tackle some records that were completely foreign to me. GERMAN records.  I don't have many German roots, but what I've found so far is on my maternal line.  In doing research in Pennsylvania on my FRAMPTON, GILLEN and HUNTER lines, I came across information on the MARTIN family.  

Anna Barbara Martin (1747, Germany to 1822, Ohio) married John Frampton, Jr. in about 1780.  They are my 5th great grandparents.

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

Name:John Frampton

Gender: Male

Birth Place:or

Birth Year:1744

Spouse Name:Anna Barbara Martin

Spouse

Birth Place:Wu

Spouse Birth Year:1749

Marriage

Year:1780

Marriage State:PA

Number Pages:1

During my research at the Carlsbad Library, in San Diego County, I found a book that referenced the Martin Family and named Johann Everhard Martin as the father of Anna Barbara Martin.  And named his wife as Jacobina Elizabeth.

"Raymond Martin Bell, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Families & Records before 1800 Supplement (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), 36. Cit. Date: 29 Jun 2010; Martin, Everhard of Derry - wr Jan 13 1784 - pr Feb 20 1784 (German) wife Jacobena Elizabeth: Christopher, Barbara, Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel"

From there I located a record on the Family Search website regarding the marriage record for Johann Eberhard Martin and Jacobina Elisabetha Wunderlich. 

Deutschland, Heiraten 1558-1929 Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929

Name:   Johann Eberhard Martin

Gender:   Male

Marriage Date: 16 Feb 1745

Marriage Place: Evangelisch, Notzingen, Donaukreis, Wuerttemberg

Father:  Cunrad Martin

Spouse:Jacobina Elisabetha Wunderlich

FHL Film Number:1055846

Reference ID:   2:1R0GVFP

I go down to the second floor which has the European records here at the library and set up all my stuff.  Then I proceeded to pull that film.  I didn't know what to expect.  I don't speak German and don't really know any German words.  So, I asked for help.

TIP: The consultants are available beginning at 9 a.m.  The library isn't very busy first thing in the morning and it's a good time to avail yourself of the services of the experts.

A very nice man named Daniel helped me to decipher which were the birth, marriage and death records on the microfilm. He gave me a sheet of paper with the basic German words for things I would be looking for.

Let's get to the good part of this story.  I didn't turn that film handle more than twice and THERE IT WAS!!  OH MY GOSH!!

The 1745 marriage record of my 6th great grandparents, Johann Everhard Martin and Jacobina Elisabetha Wunderlich.

This record gives the names of both of their parents.  That's right, taking my family back one more generation. 

Here is what the image looked like as I first saw it.  Can you see the record?

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It was the very first record on this page.  Here is close up of the record.

Here is a transcription of this record as read to me from Daniel at the library.

"1745 16 Feb - Johann Eberhard Martin who is the son of the deceased Cunrad Martin, citizen and judge in Notzingen and Jacobina Elisabetha who is the daughter of Johann Wunderlich who is a citizen and carpenter in Ludwigsburg on the Schafhof." 

Now I know Johann's father's name & profession and that he was deceased prior to 1745.  And the same with Jacobina's father, a carpenter in another city and apparently living.

I knew that this microfilm covered years from about 1650 so I decided to look for more records. OH BOY DID I FIND THEM!!

I won't go into all the details but here is a list of what I found and some images.  One record led to another and another and this is the order in which I located them.

• Marriage of Cunrad Martin & his wife Anna on 26 Jul 1717
• Burial of Cunrad's first wife, Margaretha, on 14 Feb 1717
• Marriage of Cunrad & Margaretha on 15 Nov 1698(this record lists the names of Cunrad and Margaretha's father's taking us back another generation)
• Birth of Johann Eberhard Martin on 30 Jan 1718
• Baptism of Michael Martin, son of Jacob Martin & his wife Apollonia on 2 Mar 1669 (this turned out to be a brother of Cunrad)
• Death record of Cunrad Martin on 25 Sep 1720

Can you believe it?  Was this a gold mine of a microfilm or what?  I am so excited to continue my research and fill in the details for all of these family members.

Here are images of some of the records mentioned above.

Death record of Cunrad's first wife Margaretha on 13 Feb 1717

Birth record for Johan Eberhard Martin in 1718

Marriage record of Cunrad Martin & Margaretha in 1697

TIP:  When I go to a library or courthouse I take a camera with me and I photograph any record I am interested in keeping, including the microfilm records. I have a Canon Powershot SX260HS.  It's a little camera, but it takes great pictures. This is the quickest method I have found when saving images.  This way they are already digitized and I will get home and crop and label them. I organize them by date. I've been doing this for many years now and find it works extremely well.  Saves a lot of time over scanning (even with a FlipPal) or copying.

I really enjoyed sharing these finds with you. I'll talk more about my FHL trip once I get home.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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