Elizabeth Frances Research Paper

Elizabeth Frances was born in a two-story white clapboard house in the modest town of McLouth, Kansas, to Clara Belle and Allen Elzaver in 1914. Their house has stood, mostly unchanged for the last hundred years on a street that bears the name of a family member. In fact, most of the older streets in McLouth bear the names of their family members. Clara Belle carefully chose the name Elizabeth Frances for her newborn, but when her doctor finally sat down a few days later to fill out the birth certificate, he inadvertently wrote Frances Elizabeth, much to the dismay of the family. It may not have seemed a monumental error, but since Clara Belle died of cancer when Elizabeth was seven years old, it was vital to Elizabeth to have the name her mother intended for her. Several years down the road, the United States government would be adamant that Elizabeth was in fact Frances, so to avoid confusion; she did indeed use Frances as her first name for countless years, even though in her heart, she always preferred the name her mom picked out for her. Elizabeth adored her father, but when he remarried a few years later to a local woman, her life would become severely difficult. That young local woman by the name of Bertha Elizabeth, had wonderful dreams of attending Julliard, but instead, her father ordered her to marry the elder …show more content…
Wanting her children to grow up with at least a few of her country life ideals, she rented a house in her hometown of McLouth. One frigid winter night, while she was at home with her six children and two nieces, the chimney caught fire. She saved all of the children and one lone blanket to wrap them in and she watched all her worldly possessions burn to ash. She was not one to complain, and she never did waste time crying, she just loaded all of them into the car and drove off into the night towards a better