Frances Emily Rauch

1905 - 1988  (82 years)

• Name	Frances Emily Rauch
  Born	23 Nov 1905	Ipava, Fulton, Illinois, United States
  Gender	Female
  Died	12 Nov 1988	Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, United States
  Person ID	I1122068488	Master Tree | Descendants of James Morris and Margaret Cooke
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2009

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Harvey Rauch,   b. 8 Mar 1878, Pleasant Twp, Fulton, Illinois, United States ,   d. 12 Jul 1966, Escondido, San Diego, California, United States  (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Gracie Rebecca Tarter\Elgin,   b. 30 Sep 1880, Astoria, Fulton, Illinois, United States ,   d. 28 Sep 1965, Poway, San Diego, California, United States  (Age 84 years)
  Married	8 Dec 1897	Ipava, Fulton, Illinois, United States
  Family ID	F1047624763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ronald Francis Swaim, Sr.,   b. 14 Mar 1903, Bloomingdale, Parke, Indiana, United States ,   d. 22 Oct 1965, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States  (Age 62 years)
  Married	07 Nov 1924	Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States
  Children	+ 1. Alice Frances Swaim   2. Ronald Francis Swaim   3. Richard Nathaniel Swaim   4. Saralee Cynthia Swaim
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2009
  Family ID	F1047624746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 23 Nov 1905 - Ipava, Fulton, Illinois, United States Married - 07 Nov 1924 - Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States Died - 12 Nov 1988 - Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  !In file held by daughter Alice Swaim Schnakenberg, Certificate of birth. Funeral service remembrance card. RIN 1 Frances lived in Fulton Co. Ill until she was about ten, then, because her father had TB the family sold their farm and moved to a cattle ranch in Colorado Springs CO where the family lived until about 1920 when her parents went broke and left to live in Pueblo CO. From there the family, which was really hard up by this time, built a canvas house on the back of an old flat bed truck and traveled to Yuma AZ, from there they traveled across the old plank road into California and ended up in San Fernando CA where Grandfather found a job working for a turkey ranch about 60 miles away in the Antelope Valley. Here Grandfather was able to get ahead enough to homestead a ranch in the Tierra Bonita district east of Lancaster. This is where France s met Babe(Ronald) Swaim. After I was born, Babe & Frances lived and dad w orked for his father-in-law until after Ronald Jr. was born. Then w e moved to another ranch near-by called Avreys. From there we move d to McDonald's ranch and then to the dairy where dad drove the milk truck until we moved to Venice CA in Dec 1934. Early in 1935, in Feb. I think, we m oved up to Nipoma, near Santa Maria, where dad cut wood for George t o haul to LA for Grandpa Rauch to sell. Ronald Jr and I finished th e school year there, then we moved back to Santa Monica in late Aug . or first of Sept. and I, Ronald, and Richard started school at McKi nley. We stayed there with Granddad, George, and Babe in the wood bu siness. We stayed there from Sept. 1935 until Feb.1937 when we move d to AZ because the doctor thought mother had TB. Uncle Arthur and h is family moved to Nipoma to cut the wood, with Daddy driving the tru ck. We only lived in AZ one month as the doctors over there said mot her had had a heart attact due, I think to stress, so we were able t o move back to CA and Daddy back to working with George & Grandpa i n the wood business, but now he was no longer a pardner, but an emplo yee. Ronald, Richard, and I finished out the school year living in T arzania. Becky had started to school in Santa Monica, but couldn't f inish the year as Tarzania didn't have a kindergarden. Becky then st arted first grade there, but then we moved again to the West Adams di strict in LA where I graduated from the sixth in Feb. of 1938. Whe n mother got sick, we started living with our Grandmother & Grandfath er Rauch, so Grandma could take care of mother and us kids. That sum mer, before school started again, we moved over the store in Culver C ity. That winter, mother started to feel that she was well enough t o start caring for us again. So in March or April of 1939 we moved b ack up to Lancaster where I graduated from the eighth grade and enter ed Antelope Valley Hi'school. Facts about this person: Fact 2 February 19, 1999