Roads, Frances Elizabeth b. 10 Feb 1852 Henry County, Iowa, USA d. 9 Aug 1924 Cook County, Illinois, USA: Thurmon King's New Sackett Database

1852 - 1924 (72 years)

Name	Roads, Frances Elizabeth [1]
Nickname	Franc
Born	10 Feb 1852	Henry County, Iowa, USA [1]
Gender	Female
Died	9 Aug 1924	Cook County, Illinois, USA [1]
Buried	Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA [1]
Person ID	I66338	Sackett
Last Modified	18 Dec 2021

Family Elliott, Simon Charles, b. Dec 1841, Ohio, USA , d. 9 May 1915, Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, USA (Age ~ 73 years)

Children

+	1. Elliott, Stella Mae, b. 1876, Nebraska, USA , d. 1947 (Age 71 years)

Last Modified 4 Jun 2021

Family ID F26450 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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	Born - 10 Feb 1852 - Henry County, Iowa, USA
	Child - Elliott, Stella Mae - 1876 - Nebraska, USA
	Died - 9 Aug 1924 - Cook County, Illinois, USA
	Buried - - Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA

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Frances Elizabeth Roads (1852-1924)
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A biography is avaliable: "In Her Wake: The Story of Frances Elizabeth Roads Elliott 1852-1924," (2017) by Sharon S. Atkins (

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[S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 2), 4 Jun 2021.
Memorial ID 19586744
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19586744

Frances Elizabeth "Franc" Roads Elliott
Birth 10 Feb 1852
Henry County, Iowa, USA
Death 9 Aug 1924 (aged 72)
Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Forest Home Cemetery
Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA

Franc Roads was one of the seven founders of P.E.O. Sisterhood (Philanthropic Educational Organization), one of the pioneer societies for women, that was founded on January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

Frances Elizabeth Roads was born February 10, 1852, at Marshall, Iowa, a little town almost at the edge of Mount Pleasant. Her father, Addison Roads, was a businessman and later a public official in Mount Pleasant. ... Franc, as she preferred to be called, enrolled in the scientific course at Iowa Wesleyan in September, 1866, at the age of 14. She graduated in three years, receiving her B.S. degree on June 16, 1869. She was granted the honorary M.S. degree in 1872. ? Franc and Simon Charles Elliott, the son of Dr. Charles Elliott, president of Iowa Wesleyan 1857-61 and 1864-66, were married June 6, 1872. Mr. Elliott operated a Queen's Ware china store in Lincoln, Nebraska. They had a son and daughter. Through most of her life, Franc practiced art as a profession. She studied at the Rockwood Potteries in Cincinnati, at Chicago Art Institute, the University of Chicago at Columbia, Leland Stanford, and in Europe. She was associated with the art department at the University of Nebraska. Franc entered the field of art supervision in the public school in Salt Lake City, Utah and Aurora, Illinois. She had a crusading spirit and counted as her friends Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Frances Willard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and many others interested in the Feminist Movement. In 1884 Franc represented Nebraska as assistant commissioner of art at the New Orleans Exposition, the first time that women were named at any exposition. She worked for 18 years to secure for women the right to vote in the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her daughter said of her, "She was an inspiration to us all." The Elliotts moved to Chicago, and she died there August 9, 1924 (FRIENDSHIP SEVEN: Of 7 - Oklahoma P.E.O. - 1974).

In 1952, on the centennial anniversary of her birth, a memorial marker was placed on the Elliott plot in Mt. Pleasant?s Forest Home Cemetery by a committee authorized by Supreme Chapter (A Dream Come True: Program given by Elizabeth (Liz) E. Garrels, Iowa State President at P.E.O. Conference 1996).

Researched by Ted Smith