Frances F. Bryan (maiden name: Tenney) was born on October 19, 1803, in Columbia, Maine. She married Benjamin Bryant in Eastport, Maine, on June 9, 1833, and they had at least three children: Helen, born around 1836; Enoch, born around 1838; and James, born around 1841. The family moved to Winchester, New Hampshire, around 1840, and her husband worked as a farmer there. They moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, sometime in the 1850s, and by 1860, they owned $200 of personal property. By 1870, they were living in their daughter Helen’s household in Worcester, Massachusetts. She died in Framingham, Massachusetts, on October 2, 1883.