William Edward Fronabarger
29 October 1877 - 5 December 1936
Born near Clarksburg,
Carroll County, Tennessee, William Edward Fronabarger enlisted into the
army in 1899 and spent 2 1/2 years in the Philippine Islands. In 1912, the
year of New Mexico Statehood, Ed and his wife, Cola Ceton Hall, moved to
New Mexico to claim homestead land from the federal government in Sofa,
Union County, New Mexico. After for several years, he slowly moved into
ranching. He was a prominent rancher in Northeastern New Mexico. He died
as a result of dust pneumonia, contracted during the Dust Bowl years. |
|