NOTE:  Frances' ancestors are quite well known; she is the youngest daughter of Thomas Slaughter Obear and Mary Amelia Maurice; mother of Pom, Jr., my dad (in whose arms she died when he was just over nine years old); and sister of, from oldest to youngest, Maurice, William Henry, and Elise Henry Obear (pictured). Elise was known to me as "Aunt Elise". She and Lawrence Winall O'Neil had at least 53 descendants; cousins of my dad who remained in contact with our family and provided much information in the Sinnocks and Kin database about Elise's O'Neil and Woodcock descendants, many of whom settled in Oregon.