Comments on: Maymah’s Three-Year-Old Son

By: Percy Adams

Percy Adams — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:32:53 +0000

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By: cynthia

cynthia — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:37:45 +0000

the book was great. i had NO idea of the terrible ending that was to ensue.

a woman, FAR ahead of the times, that did something not many of today’s mothers would do as far as leaving their children behind.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:21:02 +0000

Shortly after they married, Maymah and her husband, Edwin, took in and raised a daughter named “Jessie” after Jessie’s mother, Maymah’s sister Jessica, died in childbirth. When there are references to Maymah’s three children, Jessie is included. Maymah was nearly forty when she and Frank began their affair and they did not have any children together. It is believed that newspaper reference to a three-year-old son is a misprint about John, Maymah’s son with Edwin.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:02:11 +0000

I also just finished reading the book ‘Loving Frank’. It does not mention a 3 year old child. Mamah’s two children from her previous marriage with Edward Cheney, John and Martha, were with her during the fire/murders and became victims alongside Mamah and a few other’s. Frank had 6 children with Catherine, and Mamah had two, making 8 between the two of them.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:22:15 +0000

Hi Betty,

I just saw Loving Frank by Nancy Horan at Barnes and Noble recently. Looks interesting. Colleen

By: Betty Chambers

Betty Chambers — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:46:36 +0000

I just finished a book about Maymah and Frank called “Loving Frank”. This was pretty well researched and no mention was made of a child they had together. It was possible of course, but hard to prove if the child was born in Europe and brought to the US. Frank later has a out of wedlock child,eventually marrying her mother when his wife finally gave him a divorce. It’s a well written book but I could never do what they did even now. Between them they had 9 children before they took off leaving all behind. Obviously she did get visitation rights and it was during a visit that the murders took place. It was a sad story.

By: Marilyn Hamill

Marilyn Hamill — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:13:52 +0000

I spent all weekend reading old newspaper accounts of the fire and not one of them besides the NY Times mentioned a 3-year-old child. Wonder if that reporter got fired!
I did read lots of lurid descriptions–some of the “reporters” got the sequence of events wrong and embroidered quite a bit. There was a lynching party and Wright’s oldest son was at the scene taking charge. (Not of the lynching party.) Lots of back news about the couple’s escapades in Europe and Maymah’s views on life and love.
One reporter made a list of the dead and injured and Martha Cheney was listed in both but with different ages.
This event was the equivalent of the Britney Spears child endangerment story, or the Michael Jackson baby dangling of our age.