What happened to Frodo's Parents?

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What happened to Frodo's parents? Where does it mention what happened to them?

 

[Olorgando]

There is a Sackville in Karen Wynn Fonstad's atlas, in the South Farthing. Keeping descriptive place-name suffixes sorted can be confusing, I guess. There is Buckland, with Brandy Hall. Tookland, but with Tuckborough (Fonstad's map has Tuckburrow!), but then Tookbank. What else: Hardbottle in SF, Nobottle in WF; Longbottom in SF, Willowbottom in EF; Dwaling, Brockenborings, Frogmorton, Whitfurrows, Woodhall and Deephallow in EF; Greenfields, Long Cleeve and Oatbarton in NF; Pincup in SF; Whitwell, Waymeet, Tighfield, Gamwich, Needlehole, Little Delving, Michel Delving, Overhill and Bywater in WF. and pretty much at the center of the Shire, not far from the Three Farthing Stone, and also from the border to the Northfarthing, Hobbiton. Makes it the quintessential Hobbit … er, yes, town. Ancestral home of the Baggins. Almost to the Shire what the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was to 19th-century Europe: they were related by marriage to just about everybody. Queen Victoria's husband and Prince Consort Albert was of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and through their children the spaghetti-plate of European royal interrelations got really complicated. Not to Bagginses, Tooks, Brandybucks and the like, piece of cake for them …