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Helen Elizabeth Franks

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Helen Elizabeth Franks

Birth
Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Death
24 Feb 1980 (aged 81)
Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
Burial
Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA GPS-Latitude: 37.1724895, Longitude: -94.3289981
Plot
Bl 23 Lot 24 Sp 1
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Birth: 1st of three known children in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.

Census: 1900, age 1 Wichita, Sedgwick county, Kansas with parents lodging at 418 north Topeka avenue, father divison frieght agent for Frisco, taking over Carl Raymond Gray's job when he was promoted, moving to Monett, Barry county, Missouri.

Census: 1910, age 11 Saint Louis (independent city), Missouri with parents & baby sister at 5620 Cates avenue, father listed as a miner (Carl R Gray & family living at 5885 Cates avenue in 1904, as 2nd vp Frisco)
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Census: 1920, age 21 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri with parents, two younger sisters & mother's half-brother, at 722 north Byers avenue, father a mine operator.

Helen was oldest of three daughters and her mother's half-brother, Allen Cunninghan, two years younger, whom she was raised with after his father, Lon P Cunningham died in 1911.

Helen never married and was a career women according to C B Hood, III's research printed in his 1994 published book about her mother's family, "The Thomas Hood Family" in Chapter XXIII, was employed by the Southern Railway company mostly in Atlanta, De Kalb county, Georgia retiring 1963 returning to live in the Olivia Apartments in Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri, same place where her mother May had died a bit more than thirty years earlier, then die in Helena, Montana.

Her father's eleven year younger brother, Humes Cummings Franks (1878IA-1944MO), was also unmarried and was an agent for Southern Pacific Railway Systems, mostly in Texas, returning to Carthage five months before death, living at sister Nettie's (1871IA-1951MO) home, 309 south Orner street, backing on the Missouri Pacific tracks.

She is at rest with her parents and maternal grandmother, Lucy (Hood) Cunningham.

single

Birth: 1st of three known children in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.

Census: 1900, age 1 Wichita, Sedgwick county, Kansas with parents lodging at 418 north Topeka avenue, father divison frieght agent for Frisco, taking over Carl Raymond Gray's job when he was promoted, moving to Monett, Barry county, Missouri.

Census: 1910, age 11 Saint Louis (independent city), Missouri with parents & baby sister at 5620 Cates avenue, father listed as a miner (Carl R Gray & family living at 5885 Cates avenue in 1904, as 2nd vp Frisco)
.

Census: 1920, age 21 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri with parents, two younger sisters & mother's half-brother, at 722 north Byers avenue, father a mine operator.

Helen was oldest of three daughters and her mother's half-brother, Allen Cunninghan, two years younger, whom she was raised with after his father, Lon P Cunningham died in 1911.

Helen never married and was a career women according to C B Hood, III's research printed in his 1994 published book about her mother's family, "The Thomas Hood Family" in Chapter XXIII, was employed by the Southern Railway company mostly in Atlanta, De Kalb county, Georgia retiring 1963 returning to live in the Olivia Apartments in Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri, same place where her mother May had died a bit more than thirty years earlier, then die in Helena, Montana.

Her father's eleven year younger brother, Humes Cummings Franks (1878IA-1944MO), was also unmarried and was an agent for Southern Pacific Railway Systems, mostly in Texas, returning to Carthage five months before death, living at sister Nettie's (1871IA-1951MO) home, 309 south Orner street, backing on the Missouri Pacific tracks.

She is at rest with her parents and maternal grandmother, Lucy (Hood) Cunningham.



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