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_Edmund FROST _______
_James FROST ______|
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|--Abigail FROST
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| _Thomas FOSTER ______
|_Elizabeth FOSTER _|
|_Elizabeth WHITMORE _
Father: Abraham GROGGFrances Jane Grogg was the next to youngest child of Abraham and Anna Grogg. She was born in Liberty Township and lived out her life there as the wife of David Oliver Crum (see Crum family), whom she married at the age of nineteen in 1871. By all accounts, she was a stern, no-nonsense woman who raised a brood of children by herself after her husband’s death in 1896, only two years after her youngest child was born. Reminiscings of Alice (Crum) Harrop reveal a Frances Crum who was hard working but not very loving. According to Alice, she would hide candy in her dresser and not share it with anyone. She would hand out cookies to the grandchildren she liked best in front of the others—Alice didn’t get one. One Christmas when her son, Ed, was young she bought everyone but him a gift. For him, she set out a crock of water. He often commented that he would have felt better to receive nothing. Still, she raised a fine family of hardworking children. Once her children were grown, she lived on her husband’s farm with her son, Crate, who had inherited her disposition. They split expenses 50/50, but it was usually Crate who took the lion’s share. For example, they purchased a Ford car together, but Crate refused to take his mother to church in it or allow her any other use of the car. After she gave up housekeeping she lived in two-month shifts with each of her children. In the end, when she was living with Ed and Emma Crum and was scheduled to go next to Crate’s house, she grew ill. Because they feared Crate would not take care of her, Ed and Emma kept her on at their house. Barbara Watson, who was about age three at the time, was the last person to speak with her great-grandmother. Barb remembers talking about having an apple and Grandma Crum saying, "You have?" Barb thinks from then on she was having a conversation with a dead grandmother. Francis Crum passed away in Liberty Township in 1938.
Sources:
_Solomon GROGG _
_Abraham GROGG _|
| |_Mary SNYDER ___
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|--Frances Jane GROGG
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| _John Bowers ? _
|_Annie BOWERS __|
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_Thomas GROVER ______
_Andrew GROVER _|
| |_Elizabeth CHADWICK _
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|--James GROVER
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| _James FREETHY ______
|_Mary FREETHY __|
|_Mary MILBURY _______
_James KIDDER ____
_Ephraim KIDDER _|
| |_Ann MOORE _______
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|--Rachel KIDDER
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| _Simon CROSBY ____
|_Rachel CROSBY __|
|_Rachel BRACKETT _
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_Jasper RIDDLESDALE _|
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|_ ELIZABETH _________|
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