Lavona Massey Cudd Lavona Massey Cudd (1865-1934) lived on a farm near Hebron and was the area midwife. According to family records, Lavona delivered 942 babies! Her grandchildren remembered her making fresh straw mattresses each year once the wheat was thrashed. She also saved duck and geese pluckings for feather pillows. Lavona is laid to […]
Christmas Tree Skirt at the Historic Frankford Church Our lovely Historic Frankford Church is made even more lovely every holiday season by the beautiful quilt we use as a tree skirt for our Christmas tree. The Double Wedding Ring pattern quilt was made by Annie Dickerson Wells, the paternal grandmother of Kathy Wells Power, President
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Frankford Annual Prairie Mowing Our annual January mowing take place in the first few weeks of January. We mow the prairie once a year during winter. Mowing is one of the ways we prevent woody plants from encroaching into the prairie. The annual mowing also disperses seeds and encourages the growth of spring wildflowers like