Contributed by Carolyn Fonken

Frances Julia Ann Cone

Frances Julia Ann Cone was born about 1812 in Greene County, Georgia, the daughter of William Cone who was a judge of the Interior Court of Greene County and a State Legislator.  Her mother is unknown at this time.  She married Samuel H. Beman on January 26 1831 and thereafter they lived in both Georgia and New York where Samuel had been born.  After the death of Samuel Beman in 1856 in New York, Frances Julia Ann Cone moved to Texas to be with her daughter Mary Elizabeth Beman/Daniel, bringing alonh her young son, Henry Beman.  Her daughter Mary Elizabeth, died sometime in 1859 leaving two young daughters, Anne and Frances.  When the war came, Frances Julia Ann Cone took her two grand-daughters and her son and returned to Georgia for the duration of the war.  After the war she returned to Texas eventually living with her grand-daughter Anne Daniel/Davidson, dying ten days after Anne in 1884 in a pneumonia epidemic.

Frances Julia Ann Cone

1812-1884

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