She came with her pioneering parents, Follett and Sadie Smith, to settle in Tulsa, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, in 1904. Smith started an orchard and store at 14th Street and Peoria Avenue, which he operated until 1921. His six sons worked in the oil fields. Mrs. Eby's parents were among the founders of Orcutt Memorial Church at 14th Street and Quaker Avenue. It is now St. Paul's United Methodist Church, where Mrs. Eby was a member. She was a charter member of Tuloma Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. In 1905, she started to teach school in a small building now known as Lincoln Elementary School. "All her pupils were Indians," her son said. "One was the child of Alvin Hodges, a chief of the Creek Nation." In 1907, Mrs. Eby married a local grading contractor, S.G. Eby, whose projects are a list of Tulsa's growth: the Katy and Midland Valley railroads, brick paving on Main Street, Brookside, Southern Hills Country Club and Memorial Park Cemetery. "She loved doing things for people and continued as long as she lived," Seth Eby said. "She liked to help her family. When she was 89, she kept a great-great-granddaughter for three days a week while her (the child's) mother was working. "She could see things that needed doing, and she wasn't bashful about saying so. At Ambassador Manor (where Mrs. Eby lived her last years), the people said she pretty much ran the place." Neither age nor distance nor stormy weather could keep Frances from a favorite pastime: fishing. the energetic centenarian was the family champion, fishing in waters as far north as Canada, her son, Seth Eby Jr., said. "She loved to fish," her son said. "When she was 95, she went fishing on the Lake of the Woods in southwest Ontario. That summer she picked gallons of blueberries on those islands where they grow wild."
Tulsa World
Victoria Nininger
March 1989

Note: Mrs. B. A. (Pat) Stunkard is Zona Stunkard, also buried in this cemetery, but she died in 1986, not surviving Frances as the article suggests.