Note: Research is ongoing. Relationship not proven. Is this the wife of Thomas Frame?

1860 U.S. Census:1226
Porter County, Indiana (Porter Township, Valparaiso Post Office)
Enumerated 6 September 1860
Thomas Frame •• 29, male, farm laborer, personal property value $300, born in Ohio
Frances •• 29, female, born in New York
Pettijohn •• 8, male, born in Indiana, in school
Emma •• 5, female, born in Indiana
Ada •• 3, female, born in Indiana
Household of mother-in-law, Elizabeth Frame,1225 is adjacent.

Possible Death of Thomas Frame:484, Frame Cemetery. A tombstone for a Thomas Frame was located in the Frame Cemetery, Porter Township, Porter County, Indiana. "The cemetery is located on a farm on 675 W., 1/4 mile south of 100 N. in the corner of their farm quite a way west of 675 W. The present owners, in 1993, said those buried are still there but vandals have removed all the stones." Data taken from previous record compiled by Alice Westbay Swanson. The other stones in the Frame Cemetery represent the family of William Frame and Jane McCarahan, who were the aunt and uncle to Thomas Frame.

1870 U.S. Census:2260
Porter County, Indiana, (Union Township, Valparaiso Post Office)
Enumerated 15 August 1870
Frances Frame •• 35, female, white, keeping house, born in Ohio
Francis is living as the lone occupant of a household which is adjacent to Thomas James Frame and his wife Ann Cadwell. Thomas James Frame was the first cousin of the Thomas Frame who was enumerated with Francis in the 1860 census. No other Thomas Frame located in the nation in the 1870 enumeration.

1880 U.S. Census:2591
Porter County, Indiana (Center Township)
Enumerated 24 June 1880
Francis Frame •• white, female, 49, relation to head of household - house keeper, D, keeping house, born in New York, father born in New York, mother born in New York
The household was headed by Joseph leonard, age 53, a stockdealer, his brother John, Francis Frame as his housekeeper, one female servant, and twelve males with the occupation of laborer. Nothing indicates that Francis Frame was related in any way to others living in this household.