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Name: Frances Jane “Fanny” Stroud Yeager
Birth Date: 26 May 1856
Birth Location:
Death Date: 24 Sep 1940 (aged 84)
Death Location:
Burial: Walnut Hill Cemetery
City: Kingman
County: Kingman County
State: Kansas
Country: USA
Memorial ID: 86685823

Frances Jane Stroud was born 26 May, 1856 in Hillsboro, Ill. to James and Margaret Groves Stroud. They moved through Iowa to Cassville, Barry Co. Missouri where Frances Jane 21, married John Franklin Thornton 18.They had 2 daughters Minnie b. 1877 in Cassville and Lillian b. 1879 in Indian Territory (Rowland, Okla.). Shortly after Lillian's birth, John Thornton contacted Typhoid Fever. Frances Jane took her 2 infant daughters to live with her parents,in Fayetteville, Ark. Frances Jane married 2nd Benjamin Truhitt. Their daughter Lotta Maude Truhitt was born 15 Mar.1882. Frances Jane married 3rd John Yeager. they moved to Belmont, Kingman Co. Ks.They had 4 children,
two died as infants and are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Belmont, Kingman Co. with their father, John Yeager, who died 14 Jan. 1907. Harry Clyde Yeager b. 15 Apr 1888 married Georgia Weltmer and John Bert b. 16 Aug. 1891 married Beulah Wilson. Frances Jane Yeager died at Kingman Ks. Buried in Walnut Hill Cem. Stone reads 1856-1940

Family Members
Spouses
John Yeager 1828–1907
(m. 1884)
John Franklin Thornton 1860–1906
Children
Minnie Belle Thornton Ellis 1877–1944
Lillian Mae Thornton Downey 1878–1960
Maude T. Truhitt McBride 1882–1968
Guy Yeager 1886–1886
Harry Clyde Yeager 1888–1955
John Bert Yeager 1891–1963