The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-02
Man Prominent in Many Ca
pacities Died at an Early
Hour This Morning From an
Attack of Heart Disease.
FOUND HOUR AFTER HE
HAD BEEN STRICKEN.
Deceased Was Connected
With Dickinson Trust Com
pany and Was Minister in
The Friends Church.

charles A. Francisco. assistant Sec.'
retary of the Dickinson Trust Com.
pany, assistant clerk of Indiana Year,
ly Meeting of Friends and one or the
best-known and most estimable citi-
zens of Richmond, died very suddenly
early this morning from heart disease.
He was found lying upon his back ini
the garden at the rear of his home,
No. l40 kinsey street. about 6.15l
O'Clock. An hour prior to this. Mr..
Francisco had arisen and had gone
out to work i'm his garden, as was his
daily custom. II was one Of his great
est enjoyments and he had taken his
hoe this morning and was in the act
of clearing some weeds from one OF the
rows. Evidently he had been at work
but "A few moments when the fatal at
tack came and his death must have
been as painless as IL was sudden. At
the time Mr.. Francisco had gone into
the garden he was the only memberl
OF the household astir and an hour aft-
erward when one of the family mem-
bers went to the rear door to call him,
to breakfast, he was found as above
stated.
Was a Great Shock.
The shock to family members was
of the most intense sort but it was
scarcely greater than that felt by the
legion of friends and acquaintances OF
Mr.. Francisco. When DIR. Charles
Marvel and DIR. /. S. Harold reached.
the Francisco home and examined the
body they said that death probably had
occurred three-quarters of an hour
before the discovery was made. For,
several years Mr.. Francisco had snf-l
fered from heart disease, though at
no time was he incapacitated, and het
continued his duties at the Dickinson,
Trust Company and attended to his
work in connection with the religious
society of Friends without interrupt
ton. Monday he was at his post aa
usual and felt as well as he had in res
cent years.
Active in Religious Work.
Mr.. Francisco had been an assistant
clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting oc
Friends for a great many years and his
presence in an active capacity at the
annual sessions of this body for So
long period had given him very
wide acquaintance among the mems
bers of the society. He was a min5s-
ter in the society and though he held
no regular charge, he was frequently
heard in local pulpits of the Friends
church as well as in numerous Others
parts of the state For some tim9
past he had been preaching regularly
at the Whitewater meeting. on North
Tenth street, which is without a regu~
lar pastor. His great interest In re-
ligious matters, his capacity for work.
in connection with the affairs Of his
church as we'll in connection with tho
financial institution i'm which he had
been interested from it's founding. had
often been a matter of comment by
his friends for though he was advance
ing in years his interest never Jagged.
and his enthusiasm was Of an almost
youthful sort. He was always court.
eous and affable, made friends in.
stantly and held them. No business
man in Richmond stood higher in the
estimation Of all classes of people.
Children All Home.
Mr.. Francisco was sixty-four years.
Of age He is survived by his widow
and the following children: Mrs. Amy
Hockett of Arkansas, who at this time
Is visiting at home: Miss Lucy Fran
cisco, head of the department Of mu-
sic at Earlham college: Miss Maria
Francisco, Miss Edith Francisco and
Louis Francisco. of Seymour. Ind.
Within the past ten days all of the
children have been at home. the first
-ime in several years that the entire
amily had been reunited.
A Native Of Ohio.
Charles A. Francisco. was born IN
townsville. Ohip. on September 23,.
s43. and was the o,dest son of DIR.
1ouis J. and Mrs. Abbie J. Francisco,
md came TO this city with his parents
n 1850. He was married to Miss Ham
lah Dickinson, November "a. 1870.
Since 1854 he had been minister in
he Society of Friends and held many
,ffices of trust in that body. He was
reasurer of the Peace association Of
friends in America.