Frankford Preservation Foundation asked Kim Schlossberg Designs to help them with their logo and branding based on Big Bluestem, a unique grass found on the native prairie.
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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
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Many visitors to the historic Frankford site are fascinated by the little Prairie Gothic church that has stood there since the late 1890s. Upon entering the church one is struck by its simple grace. The walls, ceiling and floors are lined with dark stained long leaf yellow pine hauled to Frankford from Jefferson, Texas by
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Some early Frankford residents speculated that the name was chosen because it was descriptive of local conditions. A “ford” is a portion of a stream where the water is shallow enough and the banks low enough to made wading possible for man or animals. “Frank” can mean free with respect to conditions or absence of
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In the 1840s and 1850s travelers moved in covered wagons south along the Shawnee Trail also known as the Texas Road and Preston Road. Travelers camped where there was a source of pure water, firewood and native grasses for their animals. The site we now know as Frankford had all of these elements. The
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Nancy Cartledge Dudley is buried in an unmarked grave at Frankford. She died in 1879 in a log cabin at Willow Springs where she was visiting a married son. Knowing that death was near, Nancy asked that her family wrap her body in a winding-sheet made of handkerchief linen for her burial. After she died
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Louise Cook Simmons grew up near her grandparents, Henry and Opha Jane Needham Cook, northwest of Frankford. In 1846, Louise Simmons’ great-grandfather, Henry Cook, led a caravan from Illinois to Texas at age seventy-five, a task seldom undertaken by any but a younger man. Henry patented land as a Peters Colonist selecting property in two
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In 1859 Catherine (Cattie) Bunting Coit, moved from South Carolina to a farm in Renner, near Frankford, with her husband John and small child. Cattie Coit was a remarkable woman. Born on an Alabama plantation, she was orphaned by the age of eight and moved to South Carolina to live with relatives from her mother’s
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In 1896 the Frankford community decided to rebuild Frankford Church using some of the wood from the first church, destroyed by a tornado in the 1880s. WC (Captain) McKamy and others hired Phillip Bethea Hamer, a noted builder from the nearby town of Renner, to supervise the project. Hamer was married to Henrietta Coit,
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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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