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Note: FRANKS-CROW (by John Stippick, published in a history of Coryell County, Texas)
…Henry Franks’ father, Peter Franks, and his grandfather, Andrew Franks, were early settlers of Northern Louisiana. The first settled in “The Military Strip,” a no-man’s land between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas. As a result of the Louisiana Purchase, they were forced by the U. S. Army to move to the Liberty Hill-Brushy Valley area of North Louisiana.
…Long life is common in this family. One old story from Gatesville in the early 1900’s has Thomas Jasper Franks, with a long white beard, wandering into a grocery store on the square and asking for his “Papa.” People in the store asked the grocer if that old man were “teched,” but the grocer replied, “No. That man coming through the door IS his papa.”
(The article is accompanied by a picture of Thomas Jasper Franks and his brothers all sporting long beards and badges from the Confederate Reunion. Thomas and Mary lived in Coryell County, then moved away and Thomas returned to live out the remainder of his days sometime after Mary’s death. MWL )
Name: Thomas Jasper Franks
Death date: 27 Nov 1939
Death place: Coryell, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 93 years 5 months 3 days
Estimated birth year:
Birth date: 24 Jun 1846
Birth place: Louisiana
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name: Molly Franks
Father name: Henry Franks
Father birth place:
Mother name: Miss Crow
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Farming
Residence: Gatesville, Texas
Cemetery name: Greenbriar
Burial place:
Burial date: 28 Nov 1939
Additional relatives: X
Film number: 2118306
Digital GS number: 4030444
Image number: 2777
Reference number: cn 49713
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
1920;Census Place: Rusk, Cherokee, Texas; Roll: T625_1786; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 714.
1920 Census East Texas Hsopital for the Insane. Jasper Franks, 73, birthplace Louisiana.
1930; Census Place: Precinct 1, Coryell, Texas; Roll: 2309; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 186.0.
Henry J Franks 68
Winema Franks 62
Thomas J Franks 83 brother
Frankie L Franks 14
Confederate Pension Application:
Franks, T. J. 41109 Coryell
Cpl Co I 15 Texas Cav Civil War
Notes for THOMAS JASPER FRANKS:
ID: I04016 Name: Thomas Jasper Franks Sex: M Birth: 1846 in Claiborne Parish, LouisianaHead Stone reads: Thomas Jasper Franks Corporal Company I 15 Texas Cavalry Civil War. 1846 - 1939.Above from Cemetery Records Coryell County, Tx. Vol. 4 copied Nov 1978 by Fern Maxwell.Jasper Franks applied for Civil War Pension from Johnson County Texas Book 2 Application # 13386 (Sheila Johnson notes.)
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