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    Frances Vaulx Mangum (Ladd)

    Birth: unknown

    Death: 11-17-1900

Biography

Frances Vaulx Mangum was the daughter of Joseph Brown Ladd and Harriet Vaulx Conway of Alexandria, Virginia. On October 24, 1855, Frances married William Person Mangum Jr. of North Carolina, a lawyer who was commissioned in 1861 by the U.S. Government to serve as a Consul to Ningbo, China. Frances traveled with her husband to various consular posts in Asia until his death in 1881, whereupon she returned to Washington, DC where she lived for the remainder of her life. George Frederick Seward references his sister Sarah Cornelia Seward visiting with Mrs. Mangum in Ningbo, China, in a letter to his uncle, William H. Seward, then U.S. Secretary of State, dated March 07, 1863.

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Frances Vaulx Mangum was the daughter of Joseph Brown Ladd and Harriet Vaulx Conway of Alexandria, Virginia. On October 24, 1855, Frances married William Person Mangum Jr. of North Carolina, a lawyer who was commissioned in 1861 by the U.S. Government to serve as a Consul to Ningbo, China. Frances traveled with her husband to various consular posts in Asia until his death in 1881, whereupon she returned to Washington, DC where she lived for the remainder of her life. George Frederick Seward references his sister Sarah Cornelia Seward visiting with Mrs. Mangum in Ningbo, China, in a letter to his uncle, William H. Seward, then U.S. Secretary of State, dated March 07, 1863.

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Source Information Ancestry.com. Washington, D.C., U.S., Select Deaths and Burials Index, 1769-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: District of Columbia, Deaths and Burials, 1840-1964. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.