Rhoda Fransis’s childhood was spent inside the fort walls in Alpine, Utah. All the homes in the fort were made of logs and consisted of one or two rooms. Indians killed her father when she was four years old. Fransis married Julius Conrad Beck at the age of 26. They had six sons together. Their youngest son died in infancy. After fourteen years of marriage, Julius was called to serve a mission in Denmark. For two years, Fransis ran the farm and kept the family together with the help of her five remaining small sons. Three of their sons served as soldiers in World War I and one also served a three-year mission to New Zealand. She took care of her son, Horace, as he was dying from typhoid fever that he had contracted during the war. She worked hard and paid off the mortgage on their farm during the depression, even after her husband had passed away. She passed away in January at the age of 73.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
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Scottish: apparently a spelling pronunciation of Vans, a misreading of Vaus (see Vause ), in which -u- has been miscopied as -n-. If true, it is probably limited to the Vans or Vaus family of Wigtownshire. It may be this surname that appears in Ireland from the early 17th century, especially in Ulster, but it could alternatively be the English name in 2 below.
English: if not a transcription error for Vause (a surname well evidenced in Warwickshire and Leicestershire), a variant of Vann , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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