When Frances Ellen Northcutt was born on 22 December 1852, in Boone, Missouri, United States, her father, Rev. Joseph Kennard Ellis Northcutt, was 29 and her mother, Jemima Turner Parks, was 29. She married Alexander Denton on 26 June 1867, in Benton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Sugar Creek Township, Barry, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 10 April 1905, at the age of 52.
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