San Luis Obispo County Obituary

WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS

Submitted by Kathy Sedler, Sept. 2004

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Source:  History of San Luis Obispo County, California, Oakland, Calif., 
Thompson & West, 1883, pp 381-385; Pioneer Obituary
 
WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS died in San Bernardino, California, February 21, 1876, of 
consumption, in the forty-third year of his age.  Deceased was born in Troy, 
Oakland County, Michigan, July 27, 1833.  He came to California in 1850.  He was 
candidate for Sheriff in San Luis Obispo County in 1872.  Mr. Francis married a 
daughter of William Rector, a pioneer of 1846, after whom is named Rector Canon.