Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
An Old Landmark Gone.

Uncle Frank Canterbury, one Of
Audrain's oldest, best known and
most substantial citizens, died at
his residence in this city Sunday
1morning and was inferred at Rock
Hill church, this county, Monday,
May list.
Franklin P. Canterbury was one
of the old representative citizens, and
for many years was a leading stock
raiser and stock dealer of Audrain
county. He descended from one Of
the oldest families in England, and
comes of place in the Imperial Isle
beyond the sea, made immortal by
the pen of the gifted father of Eng
fish poetry, Godfrey Chaucer. His
grandparents, Gidethear and Nancy
(Franklin) Canterbury, came from
Canterbury, England, prior to the
Revolution, and settled in North
Carolina. Gidethear Canterbury
a of the same family which pro-
duced Viscount Canterbury, for
many years speaker of the House of
Commons of England, and of the
family for which Canterbury itself,a
place five hundred years old, was
named. Benjamin Canterbury who
subsequently became the father of
Franklin P, the subject of this
sketch, was born in North Carolina,
and was there married to Miss Su-
sauna Hooser, of an old Tennessee
Benjamin Canterbury be-
came an early settler OF Kentucky,
in Greenup county for many
years, and there Franklin P. was
born on the 9th of February, 1907.
and Susanna Canterbury
had a family of nine children:
Franklin P, Reuben P, John c.,
Mrs. Thomas Peery, Mrs. David H.
Woodson, Susanna, the widow of
Michael Crude, Mrs. Green Floyd,
Jr., and Mrs. Edward
In 1899 the family came to
Missouri and settled in Audrain
county, where the father died seven
years afterwards, but the mother
for nearly thirty years follow
dying in 1875 in the ninety
fifth year of her age. In the mean
time, before the family came to Mis-
souri,, Franklin P. Canterbury had
grown up i'll Kentucky and married,
and had removed to Missouri in
1885. He had settled in Audrain
county, and when his fathers family
came out he was the owner of COOL
acres of fine land on Littleby. Mr..
Canterbury lived on Littleby, in
county, for nearly forty
years. On the 23d Of October, 1913,
Canterbury vas married to Miss
Nancy Canterbury, a cousin of his.
She lived to brighten his home and
cheer his way through life for over
years, but at last was taken
away on the 9Th of June, 1860, by
the memorable hand Of death. She
left a family of eleven children:
Harriet, the widow of Milton Blythe;
John NJ, of Lafayette county, AL
fred, Mary, now Mrs. Thomas Nc
Nancy now Mrs. John Nc
kean; Virginia, the widow of La
fayette Trimble, of Greene county,
Illinois, Susan, Franklin, Jr., de-
ceased, and Eliza the wife of jeff
Uzzel. The others are deceased. On
the 9Th of February, 1868, Mr..
Canterbury was married to Mrs.
Mary NJ, widow of John Thorn
burgh. She lived for nearly twenty
years, dying on June 10, 1880.
There were two children by this
marriage, Charles L.. and Maud L..
On Dec. oath, 1854, he was mar
ried to Julia A. Owings, of Rush
Hill, this county, who survives him.
Mr.. Canterbury had been a member
of the Christian church for over 40
years, and was first brought to hum
BILE himself before the cross of Christ
in 1919, under the preaching of Rev.
Henry Thomas.