Ninth Generation

5867. Marcellus Franklin PHILBRICK²⁷⁷ was born on 9 November 1858 in Boscobel, Grant, Wisconsin. He died on 13 June 1939 at the age of 80 in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin. He was buried in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin. !Source:Evelyn MacDonald BIEBL, his granddaughter.
Nickname:Frank.Occupation:Farmer.Church:Episcopal.Buried at Hillside Cemetery.
!Source:Helen MacNair PARKER in a letter to Char KIBBIE dated 4 Jul y 1985.
"He was always called Cell until Aunt Jennie, who didn't like that name started calling him Frank. Mother (his sister Berta) tried to always call him Frank after he was married."

!Source:Evelyn MacDonald BIEBL in a letter to Char Nisen KIBBIE dated 10/14/91.
"Aunt Candace, in her letters to him, spelled it `Sell'. Matter of preference, evidently."

!Source:Evelyn MacDonald BIEBL, his granddaughter. Marcellus Franklin PHILBRICK is buried at Hillside Cemetery. Was born at the hotel in Boscobel, WI (which happened to be The Philbrick
House) When his parents separated and then divorced, Marcellus at 18 , became the man of the family. Frank worked a number of jobs, whatever it took to support his family , a cream route, farming, at a canning factory. He retired in 1926 and on 9 March of that year, Jennie died. Frank stayed on alone in his home until he injure d his hip, and then went to stay with his son and daughter-in-law, Fred and Mildred PHILBRICK. A side light of Marcellus' eleven growing-up years in Kansas and the slow, difficult journey back to Wisconsin, was that in later years, he absolutely refused to see any movie that was of the "cowboy and Indians" type or a film on "pioneers", even though he did like movies. He also showed absolutely no interest in keeping in touch with his father, although his sisters did so.

Marcellus Franklin PHILBRICK and Alice Jane RICHARDSON were married on 14 March 1888 in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin. Alice Jane RICHARDSON²⁷⁷ was born on 15 November 1862 in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin. She died on 9 March 1926 at the age of 63 in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin. She was buried in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin. Nickname: Jennie. Source: Evelyn MacDonald BIEBL, her granddaughter.
Buried at Hillside Cemetery. Source: Evelyn MacDonald BIEBL, her granddaughter.

Marcellus Franklin PHILBRICK-14836 and Alice Jane RICHARDSON-14841 had the following children: