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Notes: Ida Margeta FRANKLIN |
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NOTE 1: Pictures
NOTE 2: Her 4th great grandfather Aaron Higginbotham Sr. is listed as veteran of the Revolutionary war with National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
NOTE 3: Ida’s 7th great grandfather, Captain Thomas Graves was one of the early settlers of the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown, founded in 1607, was re-supplied October 1608 with Thomas Graves being one of the entrepreneurs and adventurers, sent by King James I, and the Virginia Company to settle Virginia. Thomas Graves is credited with starting several churches; The Old Hungars Episcopal Church began in 1623 on the eastern shore of Virginia still holds services to this day. The Reconstructed Church.
NOTE 4: They lived on the Tom Watkins farm east of Bayard the first year after their marriage. Later they moved to her homestead, which she had taken out in 1902. They lived in the one-room house for one year before making final proof. Roy, her husband, had a homestead on the adjoining land therefore they moved on that land. Roy was stricken with appendicitis and passed away December 25,1910. Their son Lee was only three years old and Doris was one year old when their father died. Ida, being quite a rugged individual, stayed on the farm and took her herd of 30 cattle and turned to milking cows and selling cream. She was the largest producer of cream in the community. She lived here many years and passed the land on to her son who stayed there the next 35 years. For many years she was a mid-wife, not only for her relatives, but for many others in the community. Ida died at the age of 84 in 1966 and is buried in the High Butte Cemetery south of McGrew, Nebraska. -- Margie Franklin Dower and Betty Franklin Downer, "The Franklins"
NOTE 5: Listed in the 1930 Federal Census
NOTE 6: Burial High Butte Cemetery, Scotts Bluff, NE
NOTE 7: Both sets of her grandparents came from Putman County MO about 100 south east of Des Moines IA
NOTE 8: Funeral Program |
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