Searching for descendants of Frank H. Gladding, believed born January 1846 and died 6 January 1928. Buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI. Married to Jennie Caroline Benton (borh January 1846 and died 28 January 1901). Five known children, three of whom died young. Daughter Maud Hope Gladding never married. Son Howard B. Gladding (born August 1878) married Olive A. Clark in Providence on 12 July 1909. Their son Herbert C. Gladding born in Providence March 25, 1915.

In 1930, Howard B. Gladding was living in Toledo, Ohio and working as a candy salesman. In 1920 he had been living in Michigan.