Franklin Morse
(16 April 1827 - 1879)
Date this page was last edited=12 May 2015
Franklin Morse was born on 16 April 1827 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of Harford Morse and Lucy Gay.
On 1 March 1849, Franklin Morse was of one of 210 passengers and crew who left Boston on the packet ship Sweden, bound for San Francisco via Cape Horn.3,4,5,6 His sister Harriet's husband Benjamin Henry Burrell sailed on the same ship. The ship arrived in San Francisco on 3 August 1849.
Franklin Morse appeared on the census of 12 August 1850 at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the household of his mother.7 He was a coppersmith according to this census.7 Perhaps he had returned to Roxbury, but it seems more likely that he was actually still in California.
The census of 9 July 1860 at Township No. 1, Placer County, California, shows a Franklin Morse, miner, born Massachusetts, age 33.8
Franklin Morse died in 1879.9 He was buried on 5 August 1879 in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.9,10,11
On 1 March 1849, Franklin Morse was of one of 210 passengers and crew who left Boston on the packet ship Sweden, bound for San Francisco via Cape Horn.3,4,5,6 His sister Harriet's husband Benjamin Henry Burrell sailed on the same ship. The ship arrived in San Francisco on 3 August 1849.
Franklin Morse appeared on the census of 12 August 1850 at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the household of his mother.7 He was a coppersmith according to this census.7 Perhaps he had returned to Roxbury, but it seems more likely that he was actually still in California.
The census of 9 July 1860 at Township No. 1, Placer County, California, shows a Franklin Morse, miner, born Massachusetts, age 33.8
Franklin Morse died in 1879.9 He was buried on 5 August 1879 in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.9,10,11
Citations
- [S405] Morse, Memorial of the Morses, 13.
- [S432] Gravestone inscriptions, Lot 2918, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, original proprietor Henry Morse, year of birth only.
- [S948] George K. Goodwin, Reminiscence of George K. Goodwin, 72.
- [S949] Ship Sweden passengers, online at http://www.sfgenealogy.com/californiabound/cb416.htm
- [S950] Log of the Ship Sweden from Boston to San Francisco California Via Cape Horn (handwritten by Benjamin Bailey), 61.
- [S951] Passengers, 2 March 1849.
- [S444] Lucy Morse household, 1850 U.S. census, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Roxbury.
- [S446] Franklin Morse household, 1860 U.S. census, Placer County, California, Township No. 1 (post office Folsom, Sacramento County).
- [S432] Gravestone inscriptions, Lot 2918, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, original proprietor Henry Morse.
- [S434] Record of the Henry Morse plot, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
- [S869] Find A Grave memorial page for Franklin Morse (1827 - 1879).
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