Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

THEODORE FRANKENFIELD, farmer; P.O., Chandlerville; was 
born in Germany Dec. 20, 1830, to Franklin and Hannah 
Mullen) Frankenfield.  They were both natives of Germany.  
He died in 1833, aged sixty-seven years. She died in 1871, 
aged seventy-nine years.  They were the parents of five 
children, four boys and one girl, Theodore, our subject, 
being the third child.  His early life was spent in 
receiving a common school education.  When quite young was 
apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade, and followed the 
same until he was twenty-four years old, when he entered 
the army and served four years. In 1858 he left home and 
emigrated to America landing in New York. The first four 
years of his life in America was spent in the West, roaming 
from place to place. In 1862 he came to Cass County, where 
he was employed as a farm hand, but soon after began 
farming on his own account; he is now the owner of 300 
acres of well improved land.  In Cass County, in 1859, he 
married Miss Susan K., daughter of Joshua Morris(deceased),  
She was born in Cass County, in 1859.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Frankenfield are the parents of five children: Joshua, 
Willie, Matilda, Frank and Henry.   He and his wife are 
connected with the Methodist church.   Politically, his 
sympathies are with the Democratic party.

Frankenfield Mullen Morris
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