Frank was the son of Rachel McCoy and Rev. John Coop VanPatten. John Coop was a Presbyterian minister and Washington state senator. Frank was a farmer who started homesteading in 1880 in the Biglow area near Wasco, Sherman County, Oregon. The homestead is still in the family today (2011).
He died from a head injury sustained from a fall while cleaning the Biglow well. He was survived by his wife, Mary Emma (Starns) VanPatten and three daughters: Helen "Bee," Lena Rachel, and Francis Edwina. Frank is buried beside his 2 year old daughter, Jennie Rowena VanPatten.
He died from a head injury sustained from a fall while cleaning the Biglow well. He was survived by his wife, Mary Emma (Starns) VanPatten and three daughters: Helen "Bee," Lena Rachel, and Francis Edwina. Frank is buried beside his 2 year old daughter, Jennie Rowena VanPatten.
Frank was the son of Rachel McCoy and Rev. John Coop VanPatten. John Coop was a Presbyterian minister and Washington state senator. Frank was a farmer who started homesteading in 1880 in the Biglow area near Wasco, Sherman County, Oregon. The homestead is still in the family today (2011).
He died from a head injury sustained from a fall while cleaning the Biglow well. He was survived by his wife, Mary Emma (Starns) VanPatten and three daughters: Helen "Bee," Lena Rachel, and Francis Edwina. Frank is buried beside his 2 year old daughter, Jennie Rowena VanPatten.
He died from a head injury sustained from a fall while cleaning the Biglow well. He was survived by his wife, Mary Emma (Starns) VanPatten and three daughters: Helen "Bee," Lena Rachel, and Francis Edwina. Frank is buried beside his 2 year old daughter, Jennie Rowena VanPatten.
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Francis W. Van Patten
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Aged 40 Y's 11 M's 25 D's
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