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Note: ly she takes the name of both of her parents. She was born on 27 January, 1874 in Utica, Livingston County, Missouri. She went with her parents by covered wagon to Dakota Territory and arrived there in Spring of 1882. When Frances was 15 years old she met her husband, Wilmot Kester and they were married in Conde on November 28th, 1889. After a brief time they traveled by train to Tacoma, Washington. Their 1st child, our ancestor, Catherine Maria Kester, was born on February 2nd, 1891. Because work was hard to get, they moved to Oregon, just north of Salem. They had 5 more children. After 1904 the family moved south into Polk County, near Buena Vista. They rented a farm on Soap Creek. Another child was born here. The next fall they bought a farm west of Suver. She was a lifelong member of "Neighbors in Woodcraft" and was active in the Thimble Club. She loved to garden, sew and cook. Her "sugar cookies" were well known and won many ribbons at the county fair for her sewing. At age 90 she had cataract surgery and it became difficult to see well enough to sew the fine stitches she was accustomed to making. Frances Maria Conklin died peacefully on July 13th 1968 in a Corvallis nursing home. Courtesy of Anderson-Vriese Family website..Jan/2004
Note: Frances Maria Conklin was the daughter of Francis Marion and Maria Dome. Obvious
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