Frances Beecher ²

   Other names for Frances were Fannie Beecher ⁴ and Fanny Beecher.^{1 3}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Fannie was an orphan in the 1870 census, her parents not identified. Census in 1870 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. ³ The 1870 census recorded Fanny Beecher, 4, born in Pennsylvania, as an orphan living in a children's home headed by Sarah Preston, 51, in the 4th Precinct, 24th Ward, 77th District of Philadelphia on 2 Jul 1870.

2. Fannie is a student living in a school without her parents. Census in 1880 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. ⁵ The 1880 census recorded Fannie Beecher, 13, born in Pennsylvania, as a student living without her parents in a children's school.

3. Census in 1900 in New York, New York, NY. ² The 1900 census recorded Alfred Fatman, collector, 41, born Jan 1859, living with wife Frances B., 33, May 1867. There were married 10 years and she had birthed no children by 1900. Also with them is Lille M. Smith, 32, stenographer born in Scotland who immigrated in 1891, and Rose Robinson, servant, 17, born in Virginia. Alfred was born in New York and his parents in Germany. Frances and her parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Census in 1910 in New York, New York, NY. ⁴ The 1910 census recorded Alfred Fatman, broker, 52, living with wife Fannie, 44. He was born in New York, his parents in Germany. She and her parents were born in Pennsylvania.

5. Census in 1920 in New York, New York, NY. ⁶ The 1920 census recorded Fannie Fatman, widowed, 53, born in Pennsylvania, living as a boarder with Elizabeth Blackmon, 45, born in Connecticut.

Frances married Alfred Fatman, son of Joseph Fatman and Frances Brandeis, in 1890 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.¹ (Alfred Fatman was born in Jan 1857 in New York, New York, NY ^{2 7}.)