[1] Frances Walling was born in 1816 in Charlotte, Vermont and she spent most of her childhood and teenage years in Cleveland, Ohio.

[1] She worked with Josephine Griffing of the Freedman's Bureau in Washington DC in December 1866 to help eight freed slave men start new lives in finding jobs and housing.

However, as the freedmen preferred to live in Battle Creek, Michigan,[1] eight men were transported there that December for Titus to help them become established.

[6] Titus founded a school in 1867 to teach adult African Americans to read, write and to do basic arithmetic problems.

[3] Titus focused on the Suffrage Movement in Michigan and kept in contact with Truth, who worked the lecture circuit.

[9] Titus also wrote updates to the 1878 and 1884 versions, using newspaper clippings, letters, and other documents that Truth had collected.