Biographical Sketch (1881):68, p. 245. "Silas, father of Daniel Frame, was fourteen years of age at the time of the removal of the family to this state [from Bourbon County, Kentucky to Preble County, Ohio]."

Biographical Sketch (1981):52, p. 874. "Leander A. Frame obtained this farm, of one hundred and sixty acres, from his father, Daniel Frame, in 1900, who obtained it, in 1865, from his father, Silas Frame, he, in turn, obtaining it from Jeremiah Frame, who entered the land. . . . Silas was the son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Frame. . . . Silas Frame was the youngest son of Jeremiah and received the old home place."

1801 Birth:51,65, v. 1, p. 17. Birth of Silas Frame to Jeremiah Frame and Elizabeth Magill on 11 February 1801 recorded in a transcription of the Frame Family Bible. Age at death (63 years, 7 months, 21 days) on tombstone in Frame Cemetery, Jackson Township, Preble County, Ohio, calculates to within two days of the date recored in the Bible, 9 February rather than 11 February.

1820 U.S. Census:2281 Silas enumerated in the household of his father Jeremiah Frame in Jackson Township, Preble County, Ohio as a male 16 to 26; Silas was age 19.

1821 First Marriage:51,477 Marriage of Silas Frame to Polly Strader on 27 September 1821 in Preble County, Ohio in a ceremony solemnized by George Sidler, M. G.

1823 Church Member:68, p. 139. "Churches in Washington Township. The earliest church of which we have any information was one located in the Shidler neighborhood, in 1823, by the Christian denomination, but made a free church, because assistance was solicited and received from people of all faiths and people of none. An interesting relic of this church has been preserved, and we here present it. It is a subscription paper circulated to secure the completion of the church edifice, and reads as follows:

We, the undersigned subscribers, obligate ourselves to pay David V. Stephens the sum annexed to our names, in wheat, rye, corn, and pork, if paid by the tenth of January next; or in good sugar, to be paid after sugar-making, at the case price, delivered in Eaton; or in good whiskey, to be paid by the first of February next, at cash price, delivered at the place above mentioned, in payment to aid said Stephens for a job of joiner work done by him, amounting to twenty-five dollars, in a meeting house on a certain lot of land obtained from George Shidler and Thomas Woolverton. Said house to be free for all Christians to worship God in. December 3, 1823." Signers include Silas Frame, one dollar; James Frame, sugar, fifty cents; John Frame, two dollars and thirty-four cents.

1830 U.S. Census:1220
Preble County, Ohio (Jackson Township)
Head of Family •• Silas Frame
Males under 5 •• 2 << Daniel, age 4 and James, age 2
Males 5-10 •• 1 << Jacob, age 5
Males 40-50 •• 1 << Silas, age 29
Females under 5 •• 1
Females 5-10 •• 1
Females 30-40 •• 1 << Polly, age 29
Enumerated close to the Mary Frame1221 (widow of John) and Newton Frame1222 households.

1840 U.S. Census:2284
Preble County, Ohio (Jackson Township)
Head of Family •• Silas Frame
Males 10-15 •• 2 << Daniel, age 14 and James, age 12
Males 15-20 •• 1 << Jacob, age 15
Males 30-40 •• 1 << Silas, age 39
Females under 5 •• 3 << Rachel, age 3
Females 5-10 •• 1
Females 10-15 •• 1
Females 15-20 •• 1
Females 30-40 •• 1 << wife Polly, age 39
Females 80-90 •• 1 << mother Elizabeth Magill Frame, age 84
Adjacent to the Samuel2283 Frame household, enumerated at the top of the next census page.

1842 Second Marriage:51,476 Silas Frame married Wealthy Underwood on 15 January 1842 in Preble County, Ohio.

1850 U.S. Census:2320
Preble County, Ohio (Jackson Township)
Enumerated 18 September 1850
Silas Frame •• 49, male, farmer, real estate value $4,000, born in Kentucky
James •• 22, male, no occupation, born in Kentucky << son of Silas and Polly Strader
Wealthy •• 35, female, born in Kentucky << second wife, married in 1842
Daniel •• 24, male, no occupation, born in Ohio << son of Silas and Polly Strader
Nancy •• 17, female, born in Ohio, attended school within the year << son of Silas and Polly Strader
Susannah •• 15, female, born in Ohio << son of Silas and Polly Strader
Rachel •• 13, female, born in Ohio << son of Silas and Polly Strader
Sarah Ann •• 11, female, born in Ohio, attended school within the year
Eliza. Ann •• 7, female, born in Ohio, attended school within the year

Jacob Frame •• 25, male, born in Ohio << son of Silas and Polly Strader
Marolda (?) •• 21, female, born in Ohio
Mary E. •• 5, female, born in Ohio
Thomas F. •• 8 months, male, born in Ohio

William Frame •• 30, male, farmer, real estate value $3,000, born in Ohio << son of John Frame and Mary "Polly" Hornbaker
Margaret •• 23, female, born in Ohio
James •• 1, male, born in Ohio
Lena Hornbaker •• 81, female, born in New York << mother of Mary "Polly" Hornbaker Frame
Mary Frame •• 54, female, born in Kentucky << Mary "Polly" Hornbaker, widow of John and Samuel, mother of William
Levi Frame •• 28, male, born in Ohio << son of John Frame and Mary "Polly" Hornbaker
Joel Meadows •• 14, male, born in Ohio, attended school within the year
Malinda Frame •• 18, female, born in Ohio, attended school within the year
This continues the pattern seen in 1840: the growing families of Silas and Samuel Frame living on the family homestead. Sister Mary Frame Snodgrass,2232 a widow age 62, was enumerated only eight households away.

1864 Death:51 Death of Silas Frame on 2 October 1864 recorded in a transcription of the Frame Family Bible.

1864 Tombstone:65, v. 1, p. 17. Frame Cemetery, Jackson Township, Preble County, Ohio.
Frame, Silas
d. 10-2-1864
age 63 years 7 months 21 days

Descendant Information:

Silas Frame795, p. 73-74. and Polly Stador had the following children: Jacob, Daniel, James, William A., Nancy, Susannah, and Rachel.