This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for theft of intellectual property.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Catherine was a nurse and the spinster daughter of Edward B. and Mary E. Sproul of Boston, Mass when she met her future husband, gold miner Francis "Frank" John Channing. She was a heavy-set woman of Irish background, with black hair, very fair skin and blue eyes.
She struck up a friendship with widower Frank Channing when he was hospitalized for some ailment in Winnemuca, Nevada. She was his nurse and they spent some time in conversations while he was recouperating.
After Frank was discharged from the hospital, he returned to Colorado, where he began to receive letters from the 38-year old woman; letters which he never opened. Unbeknownst to him, she made plans to visit him and another 'friend' in Colorado and wrote him of her plan. It wasn't until a few days before her arrival that he opened her letter.
The woman was persistent and must have had some charm because, instead of returning home after her 'visit' she married Frank. The pairing was somewhat unusual since Frank was a rough sort of character who lived the hard life of a miner, while she was Boston bred. The outhouse was something to which she was not accustomed, having occupied more refined quarters in the past, but she gamely adapted herself.
Shortly after their marriage, Frank moved her and his two daughters from a previous marriage to Randsberg, California, a small mining town in the middle of the Mojave Desert that was also home to a tent city of about 2,000 people who were similarly looking to make it rich on the ore deposits.
Catherine, with the help of Frank's teenage daughters, ran the Rand Hotel, which long since burnt down. Her step-daughter, Emzaella, would help cook for the miners who came to the dining hall of the hotel for some of their meals.
Later, step-daughter Emzaella would follow in her step-mother's profession and became a nurse after attending nursing school in Denver.
Catherine and Frank continued to travel around the mining towns, following Frank's numerous mining interests. She died on July 5, 1939. Her death record is recorded in St. Peter's Catholic Church in Cripple Creek, Colorado, where she must have been a parisioner, but the record doesn't specifically state that she died in that town. It is possible that she died elsewhere and that her church simply made a death register notation of it. More research is necessary on that score. But she was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Denver, according to that record.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
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Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Catherine was a nurse and the spinster daughter of Edward B. and Mary E. Sproul of Boston, Mass when she met her future husband, gold miner Francis "Frank" John Channing. She was a heavy-set woman of Irish background, with black hair, very fair skin and blue eyes.
She struck up a friendship with widower Frank Channing when he was hospitalized for some ailment in Winnemuca, Nevada. She was his nurse and they spent some time in conversations while he was recouperating.
After Frank was discharged from the hospital, he returned to Colorado, where he began to receive letters from the 38-year old woman; letters which he never opened. Unbeknownst to him, she made plans to visit him and another 'friend' in Colorado and wrote him of her plan. It wasn't until a few days before her arrival that he opened her letter.
The woman was persistent and must have had some charm because, instead of returning home after her 'visit' she married Frank. The pairing was somewhat unusual since Frank was a rough sort of character who lived the hard life of a miner, while she was Boston bred. The outhouse was something to which she was not accustomed, having occupied more refined quarters in the past, but she gamely adapted herself.
Shortly after their marriage, Frank moved her and his two daughters from a previous marriage to Randsberg, California, a small mining town in the middle of the Mojave Desert that was also home to a tent city of about 2,000 people who were similarly looking to make it rich on the ore deposits.
Catherine, with the help of Frank's teenage daughters, ran the Rand Hotel, which long since burnt down. Her step-daughter, Emzaella, would help cook for the miners who came to the dining hall of the hotel for some of their meals.
Later, step-daughter Emzaella would follow in her step-mother's profession and became a nurse after attending nursing school in Denver.
Catherine and Frank continued to travel around the mining towns, following Frank's numerous mining interests. She died on July 5, 1939. Her death record is recorded in St. Peter's Catholic Church in Cripple Creek, Colorado, where she must have been a parisioner, but the record doesn't specifically state that she died in that town. It is possible that she died elsewhere and that her church simply made a death register notation of it. More research is necessary on that score. But she was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Denver, according to that record.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Catherine was a nurse and the spinster daughter of Edward B. and Mary E. Sproul of Boston, Mass when she met her future husband, gold miner Francis "Frank" John Channing. She was a heavy-set woman of Irish background, with black hair, very fair skin and blue eyes.
She struck up a friendship with widower Frank Channing when he was hospitalized for some ailment in Winnemuca, Nevada. She was his nurse and they spent some time in conversations while he was recouperating.
After Frank was discharged from the hospital, he returned to Colorado, where he began to receive letters from the 38-year old woman; letters which he never opened. Unbeknownst to him, she made plans to visit him and another 'friend' in Colorado and wrote him of her plan. It wasn't until a few days before her arrival that he opened her letter.
The woman was persistent and must have had some charm because, instead of returning home after her 'visit' she married Frank. The pairing was somewhat unusual since Frank was a rough sort of character who lived the hard life of a miner, while she was Boston bred. The outhouse was something to which she was not accustomed, having occupied more refined quarters in the past, but she gamely adapted herself.
Shortly after their marriage, Frank moved her and his two daughters from a previous marriage to Randsberg, California, a small mining town in the middle of the Mojave Desert that was also home to a tent city of about 2,000 people who were similarly looking to make it rich on the ore deposits.
Catherine, with the help of Frank's teenage daughters, ran the Rand Hotel, which long since burnt down. Her step-daughter, Emzaella, would help cook for the miners who came to the dining hall of the hotel for some of their meals.
Later, step-daughter Emzaella would follow in her step-mother's profession and became a nurse after attending nursing school in Denver.
Catherine and Frank continued to travel around the mining towns, following Frank's numerous mining interests. She died on July 5, 1939. Her death record is recorded in St. Peter's Catholic Church in Cripple Creek, Colorado, where she must have been a parisioner, but the record doesn't specifically state that she died in that town. It is possible that she died elsewhere and that her church simply made a death register notation of it. More research is necessary on that score. But she was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Denver, according to that record.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Catherine was a nurse and the spinster daughter of Edward B. and Mary E. Sproul of Boston, Mass when she met her future husband, gold miner Francis "Frank" John Channing. She was a heavy-set woman of Irish background, with black hair, very fair skin and blue eyes.
She struck up a friendship with widower Frank Channing when he was hospitalized for some ailment in Winnemuca, Nevada. She was his nurse and they spent some time in conversations while he was recouperating.
After Frank was discharged from the hospital, he returned to Colorado, where he began to receive letters from the 38-year old woman; letters which he never opened. Unbeknownst to him, she made plans to visit him and another 'friend' in Colorado and wrote him of her plan. It wasn't until a few days before her arrival that he opened her letter.
The woman was persistent and must have had some charm because, instead of returning home after her 'visit' she married Frank. The pairing was somewhat unusual since Frank was a rough sort of character who lived the hard life of a miner, while she was Boston bred. The outhouse was something to which she was not accustomed, having occupied more refined quarters in the past, but she gamely adapted herself.
Shortly after their marriage, Frank moved her and his two daughters from a previous marriage to Randsberg, California, a small mining town in the middle of the Mojave Desert that was also home to a tent city of about 2,000 people who were similarly looking to make it rich on the ore deposits.
Catherine, with the help of Frank's teenage daughters, ran the Rand Hotel, which long since burnt down. Her step-daughter, Emzaella, would help cook for the miners who came to the dining hall of the hotel for some of their meals.
Later, step-daughter Emzaella would follow in her step-mother's profession and became a nurse after attending nursing school in Denver.
Catherine and Frank continued to travel around the mining towns, following Frank's numerous mining interests. She died on July 5, 1939. Her death record is recorded in St. Peter's Catholic Church in Cripple Creek, Colorado, where she must have been a parisioner, but the record doesn't specifically state that she died in that town. It is possible that she died elsewhere and that her church simply made a death register notation of it. More research is necessary on that score. But she was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Denver, according to that record.
This is an originally researched and written biographical sketch created by Silver "Rose" Samantha Parnell, who loans it to findagrave.com for limited personal use of its members. It is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, elsewhere for any purpose whatsoever without the express written permission of the author. Removal of this copyright notice does not invalidate the legal copyright of the author. Unauthorized use of this original work will result in legal fines and fees for theft of intellectual property.
Copyright (C) 2003 by Silver Parnell
All rights reserved.
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