Frances (Duncan) Ludlow (1738-1825)
Mrs Frances (Duncan) Ludlow
She was seventeen years old and engaged to her husband when a fire broke out at her parents' house that killed her mother and all her siblings except for her baby sister, Arabella. A British officer, Captain Miller, encouraged her to leap from out into his arms from one of the upper floor windows, "he never recovered from the shock his frame received in sustaining her". Some of the servants who jumped weren't so lucky and were impaled on the iron railings. Frances brought up her sister Arabella and she and her husband had three children.
