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Frain Family Tree - Illinois Branch

Paternal Side

By Joseph R. Frain



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Frances Elizabeth Frain

The links on this page are to The Vicari/Aplin/.Beaudoin/,Baker Family web site established  by Setphanie Vicari.  Frances Elizabeth Frain became part of her family when she married Daniel Stroisch. The links will be maintained on this page as long as her site is available. Should the site be taken down the links will be removed since her descendants are incidental to the Frain family tree.

Frances Elizabeth Frain (daughter of Luke Frain and Marie Mottershaw) was born November 11, 1928 in Springfield Ill, and died 1998 in Springfield Ill.

She married (1) Daniel Stroisch, son of William Stroisch and Lenna Sapp.

 She married (2) Thompson.

She married (3) John Smith.

Notes for Frances Elizabeth Frain: She gave up two of her children for adoption -- Jodie Thompson and Melissa Smith

She is related to Al Capp the famous cartoon drawer for the newspaper.

Most of the Mottershaw family is buried in Pleasant Plains, IL and in Taylorville, IL.

Her mother died when she was born and her father left her with her Aunt Sara Ann Mottershaw Reed .

Luke married again and had another daughter who married a Charles Morgan.

Frances left her three children with her Aunt Sara when she was ill with TB and had to be hospitalized .

More About Frances Elizabeth Frain: Burial: Unknown, Oak Hill Cemetery --Springfield Ill.

Children of Frances Elizabeth Frain and Daniel Stroisch are:

  1. Phyllis Stroisch.
  2. +Thomas Daniel Stroisch.
  3. +Jeff Alan Stroisch.

Children of Frances Elizabeth Frain and Thompson are:

  1. Jodie Thompson.
  2. Michael Arthur Thompson.

Children of Frances Elizabeth Frain and John Smith are:

  1. Melissa Smith.
  2. John Jackie Smith.
  3. Tammy Sue Smith.