Frank Willet Graves

1877 - 1958  (80 years)

• Name	Frank Willet Graves  [1, 2]
  Birth	2 Jun 1877	Sublette Township, Lee County, Illinois, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	95B9C30B51614CABB9E98BDD8B61A089E424
  Death	17 Mar 1958	Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA   [2]
  Burial	Peabody, Marion County, Kansas, USA, Prairie Lawn Cemetery   [2]
  Person ID	I12504	Larry and Jane's Family Tree
  Last Modified	6 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	Jason Lee Graves,   b. 27 Jul 1842, , , Illinois, USA d. 7 Oct 1912, , , Illinois, USA (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Lucy Hannah Kendall,   b. 5 Jan 1847, La Moille, Bureau County, Illinois, USA d. 25 Nov 1939, La Moille, Bureau County, Illinois, USA (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	6 Oct 1869  [1]
  Family ID	F4501	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ida Belle Stemmons,   b. 20 Mar 1875, Golden City, Barton County, Missouri, USA d. 28 Mar 1977, Peabody, Marion County, Kansas, USA (Age 102 years)
  Marriage	31 Jan 1912	Golden City, Barton County, Missouri, USA   [3]
  Children	1. Lucy Wilmuth Graves,   b. 21 Jan 1913, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, USA d. 7 Oct 2006, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA (Age 93 years)   2. Frances Laura Graves,   b. 28 Mar 1915, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, USA d. 20 Aug 2005, Peabody, Marion County, Kansas, USA (Age 90 years)   3. Wilbur Willet Graves,   b. 19 Apr 1917, Newton, Harvey County, Kansas, USA d. 11 Feb 1998, Anthony, Harper County, Kansas, USA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F4565	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 31 Jan 1912 - Golden City, Barton County, Missouri, USA Death - 17 Mar 1958 - Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Frank Willett Graves was born June 2, 1877 in Bureau County, Illinois, to Jason Lee Graves and Lucy Kendall Graves. He had eight siblings, including a twin who died when she and Frank were two years old. Frank farmed with his father. In 1911, when he was 33, Frank bought land at Coweta, Oklahoma, and began farming there. The same year he met Ida Stemmons who had come to Coweta to visit her brother. They were married January 31, 1912 at her home in Golden City, Mo. They had three children, Lucy, Frances, and Wilbur. In 1916 the family moved from Coweta to Harvey County, Kansas where Frank farmed for a number of years. In 1929 the family moved to Whitewater where Frank worked for the local grain mill. In his later years Frank also carried mail to the train station. It was a thrill for his grandchildren to go with him to watch the Rock Island Rocket snatch the mail pouch from the yardarm where Frank had hung it minutes before. Frank would also thrill his grandchildren by taking them to the town dump where he'd pick up furniture items he could repair. At Christmas it was time to open presents when Frank came into the room shaking a set of New England sleigh bells. Frank was a good-natured, gentle man who loved to work in his woodworking shop above his garage. He died March 17, 1958, at age 80, as he waited at the depot for the Rocket to pick up his mail bag.

  
  

• Sources

  [S320] Kendall Laughlin, Descendants of William Kendall of Ashford, Connecticut, and Caledonia County, Vermont, (1955, 38 pages), 21 Apr 2016, p.17 (Reliability: 3). [S127] Findagrave.com, ( Findagrave.com . http://www.findagrave.com.), 23 Apr 2016, (http://www.findagrave.com). (Reliability: 3). [S320] Kendall Laughlin, Descendants of William Kendall of Ashford, Connecticut, and Caledonia County, Vermont, (1955, 38 pages), 23 Apr 2016, p.21 (Reliability: 3).