Daughter of John and Margaret Spotts Wassell.
The following description of Frank Wassell's accident resulting in her death can be found in the diary of Ralph Leland Goodrich:
August 3, 1863
Frank Vaughan was wounded at the Helena fight & has been at DeVall's Bluff [ever since]. He sent over for the girls to come over for him today so a number of them & boys went this morning. When they arrived there, or before they got there, "Frank" Wassell was sitting on the engine above the cow catcher. She thought the train had stopped and jumped off. Her clothes caught and her leg was caught & run over by the wheel [of the locomotive]. The engineer stopped as soon as he could. Her leg from the knee to the ankle was completely mashed. She did not faint but was blind for sometime. When they left in the morning, her parents lingered long on the banks of the river looking so long until some wondered why they waited so long. It was an extremely foolish thing for the girls to go over there for Vaughan. There was no feminine delicacy in it. I am sorry – truly sorry — that it happened to Frank Wassell. Her poor parents. She may live through it.
August 4, 1863
[Mary Frances] "Frank" Wassell died last night to be buried today. Her mother is nearly crazy.
Notes:
Frank Vaughan served in Capt. John G. Marshall's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery. He was very seriously wounded at the Battle of Helena, losing his left arm and receiving additional wounds in his right hand and breast.
Mary Frances ["Frank"] Wassell was the 18 year-old daughter of John Wassell (1813-1881) and Margaret Spotts (1815-1895).
In her diary on 3 August 1863, Annie E. Cowgill also described "Franke" Wassell's tragic death. She recorded that "Franke" died "last night at half past nine o'clock" and that "there was a great many" at the funeral she attended on the evening of the 4th with her sister and grandmother.
The following description of Frank Wassell's accident resulting in her death can be found in the diary of Ralph Leland Goodrich:
August 3, 1863
Frank Vaughan was wounded at the Helena fight & has been at DeVall's Bluff [ever since]. He sent over for the girls to come over for him today so a number of them & boys went this morning. When they arrived there, or before they got there, "Frank" Wassell was sitting on the engine above the cow catcher. She thought the train had stopped and jumped off. Her clothes caught and her leg was caught & run over by the wheel [of the locomotive]. The engineer stopped as soon as he could. Her leg from the knee to the ankle was completely mashed. She did not faint but was blind for sometime. When they left in the morning, her parents lingered long on the banks of the river looking so long until some wondered why they waited so long. It was an extremely foolish thing for the girls to go over there for Vaughan. There was no feminine delicacy in it. I am sorry – truly sorry — that it happened to Frank Wassell. Her poor parents. She may live through it.
August 4, 1863
[Mary Frances] "Frank" Wassell died last night to be buried today. Her mother is nearly crazy.
Notes:
Frank Vaughan served in Capt. John G. Marshall's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery. He was very seriously wounded at the Battle of Helena, losing his left arm and receiving additional wounds in his right hand and breast.
Mary Frances ["Frank"] Wassell was the 18 year-old daughter of John Wassell (1813-1881) and Margaret Spotts (1815-1895).
In her diary on 3 August 1863, Annie E. Cowgill also described "Franke" Wassell's tragic death. She recorded that "Franke" died "last night at half past nine o'clock" and that "there was a great many" at the funeral she attended on the evening of the 4th with her sister and grandmother.
Daughter of John and Margaret Spotts Wassell.
The following description of Frank Wassell's accident resulting in her death can be found in the diary of Ralph Leland Goodrich:
August 3, 1863
Frank Vaughan was wounded at the Helena fight & has been at DeVall's Bluff [ever since]. He sent over for the girls to come over for him today so a number of them & boys went this morning. When they arrived there, or before they got there, "Frank" Wassell was sitting on the engine above the cow catcher. She thought the train had stopped and jumped off. Her clothes caught and her leg was caught & run over by the wheel [of the locomotive]. The engineer stopped as soon as he could. Her leg from the knee to the ankle was completely mashed. She did not faint but was blind for sometime. When they left in the morning, her parents lingered long on the banks of the river looking so long until some wondered why they waited so long. It was an extremely foolish thing for the girls to go over there for Vaughan. There was no feminine delicacy in it. I am sorry – truly sorry — that it happened to Frank Wassell. Her poor parents. She may live through it.
August 4, 1863
[Mary Frances] "Frank" Wassell died last night to be buried today. Her mother is nearly crazy.
Notes:
Frank Vaughan served in Capt. John G. Marshall's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery. He was very seriously wounded at the Battle of Helena, losing his left arm and receiving additional wounds in his right hand and breast.
Mary Frances ["Frank"] Wassell was the 18 year-old daughter of John Wassell (1813-1881) and Margaret Spotts (1815-1895).
In her diary on 3 August 1863, Annie E. Cowgill also described "Franke" Wassell's tragic death. She recorded that "Franke" died "last night at half past nine o'clock" and that "there was a great many" at the funeral she attended on the evening of the 4th with her sister and grandmother.
The following description of Frank Wassell's accident resulting in her death can be found in the diary of Ralph Leland Goodrich:
August 3, 1863
Frank Vaughan was wounded at the Helena fight & has been at DeVall's Bluff [ever since]. He sent over for the girls to come over for him today so a number of them & boys went this morning. When they arrived there, or before they got there, "Frank" Wassell was sitting on the engine above the cow catcher. She thought the train had stopped and jumped off. Her clothes caught and her leg was caught & run over by the wheel [of the locomotive]. The engineer stopped as soon as he could. Her leg from the knee to the ankle was completely mashed. She did not faint but was blind for sometime. When they left in the morning, her parents lingered long on the banks of the river looking so long until some wondered why they waited so long. It was an extremely foolish thing for the girls to go over there for Vaughan. There was no feminine delicacy in it. I am sorry – truly sorry — that it happened to Frank Wassell. Her poor parents. She may live through it.
August 4, 1863
[Mary Frances] "Frank" Wassell died last night to be buried today. Her mother is nearly crazy.
Notes:
Frank Vaughan served in Capt. John G. Marshall's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery. He was very seriously wounded at the Battle of Helena, losing his left arm and receiving additional wounds in his right hand and breast.
Mary Frances ["Frank"] Wassell was the 18 year-old daughter of John Wassell (1813-1881) and Margaret Spotts (1815-1895).
In her diary on 3 August 1863, Annie E. Cowgill also described "Franke" Wassell's tragic death. She recorded that "Franke" died "last night at half past nine o'clock" and that "there was a great many" at the funeral she attended on the evening of the 4th with her sister and grandmother.
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