Francis Sturge
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Name Francis Sturge Gender Male Reference Number 20147 Died 27 Jan 1869 Empire City, Stanislaus, California, USA Person ID I20147 Thompson-Milligan Last Modified 12 Apr 2018
Family Ellen Cordelia Cogswell, b. 7 Jun 1825, Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA , d. 11 Nov 1906, Waterford, Stanislaus, California, USA (Age 81 years) Married 1850 Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F6609 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Married - 1850 - Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA Died - 27 Jan 1869 - Empire City, Stanislaus, California, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Died of small Pox
Francis died of small pox on January 27, 1869, and his wife, Ellen had only the doctor to help her bury her husband, since everyone else was too filled with dread of the disease, to come near. Twenty years later on January 27, 1889, Ellen wrote in her diary: "Since the frost melted, the day has been warm & lovely. So unlike this day twenty years ago when dark clouds, sleet and a bleak wind swept the plain, fit emblem for what was passing in my home and heart as we laid my first love to his long, last rest, near the banks of the Tuolumne River at Empire City."
- Died of small Pox