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Fannie Adele McBride

Fannie Adele Cole, Mrs. Frank Cole, Frances A. McBride

11 March 1851—7 January 1881

Born 11 Mar. 1851 in Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio.1 Daughter of David McBride and Orpha Phelps Stevens.2 Moved to Wisconsin, by 1856.3 Married Frank Cole, 8 Aug. 1876, in Sparta, Monroe Co., Wisconsin; one child.4 Living in Salt Lake City, by 1877.5 EBW sat with Fannie while she was dying after childbirth.6 Died 7 Jan. 1881 in Salt Lake City; buried in Sparta.7

Footnotes

  1. 1 Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Lake City Publishing, 1892), 457. “Fannie A. Cole,” Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta, Monroe Co., WI, Find a Grave, posted 25 Nov. 2014, memorial no. 139232901 (http://findagrave.com, accessed 16 May 2018). 1850 U.S. Census, Russia, Lorain Co., OH, Orphelia McBride. 1860 U.S. Census, Sparta, Monroe Co., WI, Adelia McBride. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 2 July 2021), Fannie Adele McBride (K2JZ-SW2). 

  2. 2 Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Lake City Publishing 1892), 457. Portage Co., OH, Probate Court, Marriage Records, 1808–1917, vol. 1, p. 458; vol. 2, p. 434, microfilm 891357, DGS 4016998, US and Canada, FHL. 1850 U.S. Census, Russia, Lorain Co., OH, Ophelia McBride.

  3. 3 Wisconsin State Historical Society, Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Years 1883, 1884, 1885 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing, 1888), 480.

  4. 4 Monroe Co., WI, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Registration of Marriages, 1861–1907, vol. 2, no. 2789, 8 Aug. 1876, Frank Cole and Fannie Adele McBride, microfilm 1292394, DGS 7615248, image 454/1899, FHL. “Passed Away,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 8 Jan. 1881, 3.

  5. 5 “Home Affairs,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Feb. 1877, 140.

  6. 6 EBW, Diary, 6 and 7 Jan. 1881.

  7. 7 “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 105 (1881), Fannie A. Cole; citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City. “Passed Away,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 8 Jan. 1881, 3. “God Knew the Best,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Jan. 1881, 125. “Fannie A. Cole,” Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta, Monroe Co., WI, Find a Grave, posted 25 Nov. 2014, memorial no. 139232901 (http://findagrave.com, accessed 16 May 2018).