In Memoriam—Hon. John M. FrancisBY ANNIE M. TOOHEY
I found a tiny flower
Beside his precious bier
That still was softly moist
With tender, fallen tear
Shed by a saddened eye
Of one who ever knew
A father’s loyal love,
And daily guidance true.
And I have pressed that flower
With trembling, rev’rent hands
Between two sacred leaves
That faith of mine expands
The promise of a life
Beyond the shadowed tomb,
Where soul of him we mourn
Is wreathed in fadeless bloom.
Watervliet, N. Y.
Troy Daily Times. June 23, 1897: 2 col 2.
John Morgan Francis, proprietor and editor of the Troy Times, is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy.
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