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Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Mounts

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Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Mounts

Birth
Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, USA
Death
9 Apr 1906 (aged 42)
Dugger, Sullivan County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Dugger, Sullivan County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Son of Samuel Anderson Mounts and Lavina Ann Knapp, Married Catherine sometimes shown with a K, Idell, used Ida most of the time, Mullins. Died of pneumonia. Children of Benjamin F Mounts, Benjamin F Mounts Jr b Aug 7 1892 died before 1900, Vada May Mounts White, Roy Mounts, Ora Ellen "Eleanor" Mounts Benefield Markley , Gladys Mounts Zimmerman, Homer William Mounts and Minnie Josephine Mounts. All Mounts children placed in foster homes after Benjamin Died, articles in paper says she abandoned them with her sister and the County took them away from her and placed in Knox County Orphans Home in Vincennes. Their mother Married twice more, first to George Hunter in 1907, and then Winfield B Graves in 1911 after George Hunter died, they lived in Hymera, Sullivan County Indiana where she died in 1949. Minnie was placed with a Dr. Robert Leonard Goshorn who only used his middle name Leonard and was a physician in Hymera and Changed Minnie's name to Myrtle Louise Goshorn in 1910, family claimed she was allowed to choose her first name according to foster records.
Son of Samuel Anderson Mounts and Lavina Ann Knapp, Married Catherine sometimes shown with a K, Idell, used Ida most of the time, Mullins. Died of pneumonia. Children of Benjamin F Mounts, Benjamin F Mounts Jr b Aug 7 1892 died before 1900, Vada May Mounts White, Roy Mounts, Ora Ellen "Eleanor" Mounts Benefield Markley , Gladys Mounts Zimmerman, Homer William Mounts and Minnie Josephine Mounts. All Mounts children placed in foster homes after Benjamin Died, articles in paper says she abandoned them with her sister and the County took them away from her and placed in Knox County Orphans Home in Vincennes. Their mother Married twice more, first to George Hunter in 1907, and then Winfield B Graves in 1911 after George Hunter died, they lived in Hymera, Sullivan County Indiana where she died in 1949. Minnie was placed with a Dr. Robert Leonard Goshorn who only used his middle name Leonard and was a physician in Hymera and Changed Minnie's name to Myrtle Louise Goshorn in 1910, family claimed she was allowed to choose her first name according to foster records.


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