Frances Elizabeth HOPPER
From the death certificate of her daughter, Lillian Grace TOVEY ARMSTRONG, I have discovered that the maiden name of my great-grandmother, Frances E. GOODELL, was Frances Elizabeth HOPPER.
I believe that Frances Elizabeth was the 16-year-old Frances E. HOPPER of Allegany Co., NY, who chose Ege PIERSON as her guardian after the 1857 death of her father, Cornelius HOPPER, in Angelica, NY.Frances E. and her siblings inherited real and personal property from their father; this would explain why, as a married woman, she alone purchased the land the couple bought in Missouri and Colorado.Her husband, Harrison GOODELL came from nearby Birdsall, Allegany Co.
Cornelius HOPPER's wife, Ruth SMITH -- Frances's mother --,died before he did.The widow Emily, mentioned in Cornelius's estate papers, was a second wife, and evidently had been a widow herself when they married.
Frances Elizabeth (HOPPER) GOODELL died ca 1904 in Colorado; she is buried in the Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery in Grand Co.Most of Frances E.'s siblings died young, but two brothers, Chester and George, were still alive in 1927.
I would be interested in exchanging info with anyone related to this family.
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Re: Frances Elizabeth HOPPER
Karen Buckley 6/26/05