Frank Edward Sutton Sr.
Biography
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Date of Birth August 26, 1853
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Place of Birth Lafayette, Indiana
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Date of Death December 30, 1928
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Place of Death Lafayette, Indiana
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Place of Burial Montmorenci Cemetery, Montmorenci, IN
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Burial Notice Frank Edward Sutton, 1853-1928
Parents
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Father’s Name William Sutton
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Mother’s Name Anne (Thomas) Sutton
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Parent’s Family Name William and Anne (Thomas) Sutton Family
Spouse
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Wife’s Name Josephine Edna (Cuppy) Sutton
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Married Family Name Frank and Josephine (Cuppy) Sutton Family
Children
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Son’s Name Frank Edward Sutton Jr.
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Son’s Name Charles Kermit SuttonCharles Kermit Sutton
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Son’s Name John Cruthers VanNatta Sutton
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Son’s Family Name John and Elizabeth (Rowe) Sutton Family
Personal History
[Old Farmhouse, West Lafayette, IN]
We believe that Frank Edward Sutton Sr. first lived with his parents, William and Anne Sutton, in a brick two story home in Montmorenci Indiana. Sharon remembers her mother driving her past the old brick home where Frank lived and pointing it out to her.
We believe it was Frank Edward Sutton Sr. or his father William Sutton bought the land which became the farmland where subsequent generations of Suttons farmed and lived.
We also believe that Frank Sutton built the old farmhouse on that land. If these assumptions are correct, there have been four generations of Suttons that lived in the old farmhouse that once stood on the Sutton farm:
Frank and Josephine Sutton lived there where they raised their children
John and Elizabeth (Rowe) Sutton lived there where they raised their children, including Sharon’s dad Cruthers V. Sutton. Sharon knows this firsthand.
Sharon’s parents, Cruthers and Margaret (Cadwell) Sutton lived there where they raised their children when John and Elizabeth moved out of the farmhouse to a house on Route 231.
Sharon and her brother Rick and sister Jacqueline lived in the old farmhouse when they were young. In 1962, their parents had National Homes in Lafayette, Indiana, build a new home north of the old farmhouse. Margaret worked there before she married Cruthers Sutton. She supervised the construction of the new home.
Sharon’s brother Rick tore down the old farmhouse on August 27, 1978, the exact same day that his grandmother Elizabeth (Rowe) Sutton died. Elizabeth was the owner of the farmland and the old house on the day it was torn down. Rick started building a log house for him and his family on the farmland property in the year 2000.