LILLIAN9 FRANCES CHINN (Fran) was born 18 November 1885 in
San Francisco. She was the only child of Thomas Withers Chinn (1853–
1913), and Lillie Belle Smoot (c.1866–1920). Well educated, she was an
accomplished pianist, a prerequisite for all well-bred young ladies in the late
nineteenth century. Her father was from a prominent Louisiana
plantation family. In 1905 she married John Henry Saunders. They had one
son. After their divorce in 1925 she married Harry Innis Borden, a cousin of
her ex-husband. However, Harry had a history of alcoholism and they divorced
in 1948. When she was 72 she migrated to Australia to see out her days
with her only son. She died in 1968 in Sydney.
