Samuel
Franklin Rollings
Daisy Belle Carter
Wedding Photograph
March
1908
Samuel Franklin Rollings married Daisy Belle Carter on
15 March 1908 in Mackinaw,
Illinois. Samuel
was twenty-five and
Daisy was seventeen.
Samuel Franklin was known by everyone as "Frank."
Frank and Daisy lived their entire married
life in Mackinaw, Illinois.
Frank had various jobs. He was a telegraph operator. He
hauled coal and also hauled blocks of ice pulled by a horse drawn wagon. He
worked for the railroad. He worked at the cheese factory and made concrete
blocks at the concrete factory in Mackinaw.
Daisy cleaned houses for a lot of the town folks and
worked a short time at the restaurant in Mackinaw.
They raised six children:
- Gerald Franklin
- Claude Vernon (my father)
- Kenneth Harold
- Robert Ray
- Donna Rose
- Ruth Mary
Two other
children, Roscoe Berl and Buford Eugene, died at
birth.
Frank died at the age of 83 and Daisy was 95. They are
both buried in the Mackinaw Cemetery.
