Frances (CULLISON) ROACH was born July 27, 1873, and died May 13, 1923, aged forty-nine years, ten months and sixteen days. She was married to David C. ROACH on November 2, 1889. To this union eleven children were born. Her oldest daughter, Berna, preceded her in death thirteen years ago. The following children survive: Aden, of Huntington; Ivan, of Bloomfield; Mrs. Edna MCGEE, of Indianapolis, and Lexie, Olive, Leslie, Violet, Jesse, Vernon and Mary at home, and Clarence, a step-son, of Indianapolis, whom she always mothered and loved as a son, and five grandchildren. She was the seventh daughter of Jacob and Mary CULLISON, and at an early age she confessed her faith in her Savior and joined the church at Walnut Grove, where she ahs always been an earnest worker, and one of her great and good Christian works was keeping her children in the Sunday school and church. On Sunday, the last day of her life, after she had prepared dinner for her family, and had spent a pleasant Mothers’ day with her children, she was out helping with the evening chores when she was stricken with apoplexy. After Dr. MASON and the family had done all they could, she quietly passed away. She was an active and earnest member of the Woman’s Missionary society; also a member of the Royal Neighbors at Park. She was a devoted wife, a model mother, a kind and a good sister and a good neighbor to all. She had a raising her large family nursed member of the same through long sieges of sickness, and she had been hear to say many times that when her home-going came she hoped she could god suddenly , and her Savior granted her this desire, for while she was just enjoying the noon-time of her life, she stepped suddenly off the stage of action. She leaves to mourn her departure, besides the children named above, her husband, and the following sisters and brother: Mrs. Lue RAMSEY, of Odon; Mrs. Lottie BURCH and Mrs. Belle BURCH, of Center Township; Mrs. Laura HUNTER, Worthington; Mrs. Lizzie BURCHAM, Mrs. Caroline HINEMAN and Samuel CULLISON, all of Park. Funeral services conducted by Elder T. A. COX, attended by a large concourse of friends and relatives, were held at Walnut Grove on Tuesday afternoon, May 15, 1923, and there, the body was laid to rest till the waiting time is over.

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CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Pages 169 & 184: ROACH, Mary Frances, 2nd w/o David C., d/o Jacob & Mary CULLISON, 1873—1923; CULLISON, Jacob, s/o James T. & Matilda 25 Sep 1837—18 Jul 1881, CO E 97TH REGT IND INF, Civil War; CULLISON, Mary, w/o Jacob, d/o Justice & Caroline FEARNOT, 10 Oct 1840—21 Sep 1913.