According to a biographical sketch by her son, , Harvey Bevington, Francis had a "somewhat romantic" early life. At the age of only 2 years old (about 1789), she and her parents and four older children were immigrating from Ireland to the US when her parents died at sea. According to Harvey, "a family by the name of Blackman took and reared the youngest, who afterward grew up to beautiful womanhood and became the wife of John Bevington."
According to a biographical sketch by her son, , Harvey Bevington, Francis had a "somewhat romantic" early life. At the age of only 2 years old (about 1789), she and her parents and four older children were immigrating from Ireland to the US when her parents died at sea. According to Harvey, "a family by the name of Blackman took and reared the youngest, who afterward grew up to beautiful womanhood and became the wife of John Bevington."
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