George Washington Stites (Stites' Father)

Birth: 2-25-1842 Rockport, Spencer, Indiana

Death: 5-16-1887 Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana

Nancy K. Richardson/Nancy Stites (Stite's Mother)

Birth: 1-29-1844 Bloomfield, Spencer County, Indiana

Death: 3-1-1931 Compton, Los Angeles, California

The 1910 Census shows Stites' mom living in Compton, CA with her son, Edward Stites (never married). It states that she was not working and that Edward was a farm laborer. Nancy owned her house and it was paid off. The 1920 Census shows them both still cohabitating. Nancy Stites is buried in the same cemetery Stites is; Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Nancy and George had four children together:

Edward Richardson Stites (Stites' Brother)

Birth: 5-20-1868 Spencer County, Indiana

Death: 2-26-1953 Compton, Los Angeles, California

Edward Stites is buried in the same cemetery Stites is; Inglewood Park Cemetery.

John Ganoe Stites (Stites' Brother)

Birth:  1-10-1870 Spencer County, Indiana

Death: 3-26-1953 Compton, Los Angeles, California

John Stites is buried in the same cemetery Stites is; Inglewood Park Cemetery.

George Washington Stites Jr. (Stites' Brother)

Birth: 7-15-1878 Spencer County, Indiana

Death: 1-25-1952 Wichita, Kansas

Francis Marion Stites 

Birth: 2-28-1882 Spencer County, Indiana

Death: 3-16-1915 Universal City, California

Stites married 7-15-1905 to:

Jessie Maude Nelson/Jessie Nelson Stites/Jessie Maude Caldwell (Stites' wife)

Birth: 2-19-1888 Silver City, Iowa 

Death: 12-14-1975 Los Angeles, California

Her highest education was the second year of high school. She remarried Ira Elmer Caldwell, a taxi driver on August 21st, 1916 in Riverside. She is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whitter, California. Her dad immigrated from Denmark. Her mom immigrated from Germany.

Stites and Jessie had a son together:

Jack Stites Caldwell - (Stites' son)

Birth: 9-15-1911 Los Angeles, California

Death: 4-13-1983 Los Angeles, California

Birth certificate says his name was Francis Marion Stites Jr., as he wasn't named yet. 

Jack has his own story that I have learned from my own research and from Jack's great-grandson (bond stronger than blood), Jim. Jim did not know that, "Poppi," (Jack) wasn't blood-related to him until he was an adult. He was raised knowing Jack was his grandfather.

These pictures below are from Jim. They show Jack Stites Caldwell on his wedding day to Katherine "Kitty" Lia Goldstein. The two people in the picture with them are their marriage witnesses. F.W. Wheeler, the man on the right, got married a few years later. Jack and Kitty went to LA City Hall to meet him there. As Wheeler was crossing the street on foot in front of City Hall, a car hit him and he died.

Jack was a pharmacist in the Los Angeles Fairfax area. Stars from nearby Paramount Pictures would get meds from his office. Jack had his house demolished in the 1940s when they expanded Highway 101 through Hollywood. Jack and his wife briefly moved to Los Feliz. They managed an apartment building there. Peter Lorre was one of their tenants.

Later Jack and his wife moved to Newport Beach when Jack got a job as a pharmacist at a Safe Way in Costa Mesa. Jim lived with Jack during his senior year of high school.

Jack married 2-27-1935 to:

Katherine "Kitty" Lia Goldstein/Katherine Lila Caldwell (Stites' Daugther-In-Law)

Birth: 2-22-1906 New York City

Death: 7-12-1986 Vancouver, Washington

They did not have any biological children together. Katherine entered the marriage with two daughters already (one of them was Jim's mom). I have talked to Katherine's grand-daughter, grand-son, and Stites' 2nd-cousin-twice-removed, and confirmed, there are no alive blood-descendants of Frank Stites, but chosen family that also are seeking the story of Frank Stites.