Franklin, General Howell George

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• Reference Number: FRAN.G015
• _FGRAVE: 30038015

Notes:

Obit April 25, 1920.
S/O Jonathan and Almira Holt Franklin, both of North Carolina. General Franklin came to Illinois in 1852 with Mr. Bray and his family and made his home with his uncle, John Franklin. He married Clara Elizabeth Dement in Lexington on Oct. 11, 1855. They had 3 children, 4 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
He was one of the first settlers of Colfax, Illinois where he went about 1880. He opened a general store and bought and shipped livestock. In 1892, he retired and moved to Quincy where his children lived and resided on a fruit farm until his children left Quincy and were not content to leave the old folks so far from their friends. They came back to Lexington in 1910. His wife died July 10, 1918.
He was a member of the Christian church. He joined the church under Benjamin Franklin's preaching after the Franklin and Luccock debate.

Buried:
Section 3 Lot 92

General married Dement, Clara Elizabeth in 1855. Clara was born in 1838; died in 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Franklin, Grace was born in 1862; died in 1959.
2. Franklin, Walter Dement was born in 1870; died in 1944.

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• Reference Number: FRAN.J013
• _FGRAVE: 22464136

Jonathan married Holt, P.E.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]