{"id":1278,"date":"2020-01-30T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=1278"},"modified":"2020-02-04T02:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:28:20","slug":"ancestor-163-frances-fanny-howe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=1278","title":{"rendered":"Ancestor 163 Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Howe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Howe is an elusive grandmother.\u00a0 There have been stories about her but other than being the wife of William Woodford, and mother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=889\">Mary Woodford<\/a> Lance, much of it isn&#8217;t proven.<\/p>\n<p>Frances was born about 1750 and likely in Virginia.\u00a0 There is a myth that she was the daughter of General Howe of the British Army but it seems just that &#8211; a myth.\u00a0 Her parents are unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is that her daughter Mary&#8217;s deposition that she and her mother, Fanny, were both in Philadelphia with their father when he was posted there in his final assignment when his leg was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Frances Woodford is on the 1810 census in Harrisburg, Rockingham County, Virginia as a single woman.<\/p>\n<p>Fanny&#8217;s death is accepted as 30 April 1811 but I&#8217;m looking for the supported documentation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Howe is an elusive grandmother.\u00a0 There have been stories about her but other than being the wife of William Woodford, and mother of Mary Woodford Lance, much of it isn&#8217;t proven. Frances was born about 1750 and likely in Virginia.\u00a0 There is a myth that she was the daughter of General Howe of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=1278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancestor 163 Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Howe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1278\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}