JOSEPH FRANCIS FAMILY

 

STANCLIFF FAMILY GENEALOGY

From book "Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families", By Robert C. and Sherry [Smith] Stancliff

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FRANCIS FAMILY

(579) EMELINE VIOLA STANCLIFT married ORVILLE LUMIN FRANCIS

JOSEPH FRANCIS

Son of James and Martha [Morgan] Francis of Wiltshire, England born Gloucestershire, England Feb. 15, 1827, died Brookfield, Linn County, MO Jun. 29, 1892, married 1. North Adams, Berkshire County, MA LYDIA BARRETT born Hinsdale, Cheshire County, NH Sept. 14, 1827, died Oct. 24, 1861 married 2. SOPHIA BARRETT of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, NH born 1839, died 1923(1).

James emigrated from England with the entire family and was in this country by 1843. At that date the youngest child of his family was born Dexter, Jefferson County, NY, an area a few miles west of Brownsville that was established in the early 1840s.

Joseph moved to St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO and ran a grocery Store. He also owned a farm three miles west of Brookfield, Linn County, MO

CHILDREN: Joseph and Lydia [Barrett] Francis

1. EDGAR ALPHONSO FRANCIS born Hinsdale, Cheshire County, NH Sept. 5, 1851, died Jul. 17, 1909, married Sandwich, IL ELVIRA CARR who died Jan. 24, 1936.

2. ORVILLE LUMIN FRANCIS born Hinsdale, Cheshire County, NH Jul. 19, 1853, died Metzger, Washington County, OR Mar. 17, 1916, married Brookfield, Linn County, MO Jan. 1, 1878 EMELINE VIOLA STANCLIFT daughter of Hiram and Sarah [Ward] Stanclift.

3. GERTRUDE FRANCIS born Dexter, Jefferson County, NY Jun. 18, 1857, died Gladstone, Clackamas County, OR Oct. 10, 1939, married ENOS BLOSSOM, a descendant of Thomas Blossom on the second voyage of the Mayflower in 1625.

4. JAMES FRANCIS born Dexter, Jefferson County, NY Jun. 15, 1859, died Nov. 20, 1934, married Feb. 20, 1888 MINNIE DICKERSON.

CHILDREN: Joseph and Sophia [Barrett] Francis

5. MABLE JESSIE FRANCIS born Brookfield, Linn County, MO Oct. 12, 1876, died Mar. 13, 1947 married 1898 REV. AUBREY L. CASELEY who died 1937.

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Footnotes:

1. .May have been born 1841 and died 1924, both sets of dates were on unidentified scraps of paper among the family records.

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