- Role
- Secondary
- Profession
- Trained 'New York Point' teacher and musician. Used to run the Kalispell Shelter for Christian Women & Girls with Arabella Mudd.
- Birthdate
- 07/19/1858
- Relationship Status
- Single
- Playby
- AI
- Height
- 5'7
- Build
- Small
- Hair Color
- Dark Chesnut Brown
- Eye Color
- Grey
- Physical Description
Frances has a graceful figure but often walks with a slight stoop, as she feels her way with her stick, but straightens when spoken to, so that people remark that she is taller than they thought. Beautiful chestnut hair and a reasonably pretty face, which is obscured by the bandage that she habitually wears over her blind eyes in preference to dark spectacles.
- Reputation
Spotless.
- Employment Details
Plays piano in the Stardust Saloon accompanying Caroline Mundee.
- Expertise
Music (plays banjo, guitar, piano by ear); New York Point reading system for the blind.
- Kith & Kin
Older Brother Franklin Grosvenor 'Frank' Grimes (recently deceased, shot by Franklin Fortner)
- Timeline
1846: Parents Francis Patrick Grimes marries May O'Brien in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1846: Son Franklin Grosvenor Grimes born.
1850: Francis Grimes contracts syphilis rom a local prostitute and infects his wife.
1851-57: May Grimes suffers several miscarriages due to congenital Syphilis.
1858: The couple's final child is born blind but survives.
1860: Francis and May die within three months of each other.
1866: After being passed around extended family, a place is found for Frances at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind at 34th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan where she was taught 'New York Point' reading by its creator, William Bell Wait.
1873: At age 15, her brother Frank turns up to 'rescue' her and 'take care of her' and takes her to Virginia City, Nevada. She spends the next 3 years looking after Frank.
1876: After losing most of their possessions in the great fire of 1875, Frank ups sticks and moves to Kalispell, Montana. Becomes involved in various dubious endeavours. Frances tries to find honest work that she can do. After Frank's untimely death, scures a regular job playing piano in the Stardust.
- Character Notes
Intelligent and calm (despite sharing a house with Arabella Mudd).
- Plotter
WIP
- Written By
- Javia