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Biography by Tom Brocher; last updated 1 January 2022.
Franklyn was born at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut 7 July 1844; died there 18 February 1914, aged 69 years, 7 months, 11 days of cardiac dilation; buried there at Wethersfield Village Cemetery [Conn. State VR, Deaths, filed 23 Feb. 1914; His Obituary, The Hartford Courant; Wethersfield 127, Inscriptions, Cemetery 1, p. 108].
Frank married Martha Amelia GRISWOLD on 16 October 1872.
Martha A. joined the Congregational Church at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1860, and Franklin H. joined the same church in 1877 [Present members, Manual of the Congregational Church, Wethersfield, Conn., Oct. 1893 and 1 Sept. 1925].
Franklin H. and Martha were lifelong residents of Wethersfield and were enumerated there in the 1880, 1900, and 1910 Federal Censuses. He was a farmer, and later became an assistant town clerk and a tax collector, residing from 1911 to 1914 on South Hill Rd. [Suburban Hartford Dir., 1911-12]. He served as a justice of the peace for 15 years, assistant town clerk for a number of years, was charter member of the grange, and was active in its interests, being its treasurer ever since its organization [His Obituary].
Franklin, Martha, and their son, James A., share the same marker.
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Biography by Tom Brocher; last updated 1 January 2022.
Franklyn was born at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut 7 July 1844; died there 18 February 1914, aged 69 years, 7 months, 11 days of cardiac dilation; buried there at Wethersfield Village Cemetery [Conn. State VR, Deaths, filed 23 Feb. 1914; His Obituary, The Hartford Courant; Wethersfield 127, Inscriptions, Cemetery 1, p. 108].
Frank married Martha Amelia GRISWOLD on 16 October 1872.
Martha A. joined the Congregational Church at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1860, and Franklin H. joined the same church in 1877 [Present members, Manual of the Congregational Church, Wethersfield, Conn., Oct. 1893 and 1 Sept. 1925].
Franklin H. and Martha were lifelong residents of Wethersfield and were enumerated there in the 1880, 1900, and 1910 Federal Censuses. He was a farmer, and later became an assistant town clerk and a tax collector, residing from 1911 to 1914 on South Hill Rd. [Suburban Hartford Dir., 1911-12]. He served as a justice of the peace for 15 years, assistant town clerk for a number of years, was charter member of the grange, and was active in its interests, being its treasurer ever since its organization [His Obituary].
Franklin, Martha, and their son, James A., share the same marker.
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