Allison R. Frame

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30. Allison R. Frame: b. c1854/61 Gallion, MI; d. 30 Jan 1933 Fort Harrison, MT; m. 2 Jan 1883 Reed’s Fort, Meagher Co., MT [extracted from FHL #1,940,407]

• [The Helena Independent (Helena, MT), 9 Jan 1883: “On the 2nd of January Sergeant Allison R. Frame, of Fort Maginnis, was married to Miss Lizzie H. Gardener, of Maiden [Malden?], the ceremony being performed at Reed’s Fort by John Toombs, Justice of the Peace.”]
• [Billings Gazette (Billings, MT), 6 Aug 1930: “Allison R. Frame, aged veteran of the Indian wars remembers way back when he freighted wool into Billings from Lewistown….Mr. Frame…joined the Army in September, 1876, at Chicago, and was immediately assigned to troop K, Second United States cavalry, at Fort Laramie, Wyo. For some time he was engaged to escort duty for emigrants from Cheyenne into the Black Hills. In 1886, the veteran was with Gen. Nelson Miles in the famous drive on the noted Apache chief, Geronimo. He helped build Fort Maginnis in Fergus county and later engaged in ranching and mining for the last 44 years. He has recently been in Sheridan, Wyo., where he visited Mrs. J.[sic] W. Close.”]
• [Billings Gazette (Billings, MT), 1 Feb 1933: “Helena, Jan. 31…Allison R. Frame, 74, of Lewistown, veteran of the Indian wars, died Monday at the United States Veterans’ hospital at Fort Harrison. The body will be sent to Lewistown, where the widow lives, for burial.”]
• [Allison R. Frame (age 21, b. Galion, MI) enlisted in the U.S. Army 25 Sep 1876 in Chicago, IL; company K, 2nd cavalry; discharged 25 Sep 1881 at Fort Maginnis, MT. Applied for invalid pension 21 Aug 1895 in MT (application #1,169,833; certificate #1,106,415); widow Elizabeth H. Frame applied for pension 11 Feb 1933 from MT (application #1,730,900)]
• [apparently Allison Frame and Elizabeth Gardner divorced and remarried 8 Sep 1932 in Lewistown, MT—extracted from FHL #1,941,298: A. R. Frame (72; b. MI; divorced; parents David A. Frame and Marie Keltner) and Elizabeth H. Frame (70; b. MN; divorced; parents Charles W. Gardner and Martha Twentyman)]