Mrs. Ruth Francis died when she fell from her house-car her husband was driving as they were coming from Utah to San Bernardino to visit her daughter for a family reunion. They were 15 miles north of Yermo on the Arrowhead Trail when Mr. Bert Francis noticed the read door was unlatched. Mrs. Francis when to latch the door when a gush of wind caught the door and threw to the pavement in front of a truck her two sons were riding in. They managed to stop with hitting her, but she had fractured her skull and was rushed to Barstow for medical attention. She was taken by ambulance to go to Saint Bernardine's Hospital in San Bernardino, but she died enroute around Victorville. She was survived by her husband, Bert Francis, an amusement park concessionaire, three sons, Robert and James Francis, and Royce Leland of Pocatello, Idaho, and a daughter, Mrs. Lulu Moyes of Ogden, Utah. Mrs. Francis was 50 years of age and she and husband had wintered for the past four years in San Bernardino.
information from a newspaper article published on November 4, 1934
from WORLD CONNECT, Ruth Elena Clayton was born in Kanab, Utah on September 13, 1884 to William Heber Clayton of Illinois and Mary Ellen Elmer of Utah, one of their nine children. She married James Henry(Harry) Leyland of Utah on July 23, 1903 in Salt Lake City, Utah and they had one son, Royce G. Leyland before they divorced. She later married Robert Henry Francis of Iowa and they had four children together. She died in Victorville, California on November 3, 1934 and is buried in Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, California.
information from a newspaper article published on November 4, 1934
from WORLD CONNECT, Ruth Elena Clayton was born in Kanab, Utah on September 13, 1884 to William Heber Clayton of Illinois and Mary Ellen Elmer of Utah, one of their nine children. She married James Henry(Harry) Leyland of Utah on July 23, 1903 in Salt Lake City, Utah and they had one son, Royce G. Leyland before they divorced. She later married Robert Henry Francis of Iowa and they had four children together. She died in Victorville, California on November 3, 1934 and is buried in Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, California.
Mrs. Ruth Francis died when she fell from her house-car her husband was driving as they were coming from Utah to San Bernardino to visit her daughter for a family reunion. They were 15 miles north of Yermo on the Arrowhead Trail when Mr. Bert Francis noticed the read door was unlatched. Mrs. Francis when to latch the door when a gush of wind caught the door and threw to the pavement in front of a truck her two sons were riding in. They managed to stop with hitting her, but she had fractured her skull and was rushed to Barstow for medical attention. She was taken by ambulance to go to Saint Bernardine's Hospital in San Bernardino, but she died enroute around Victorville. She was survived by her husband, Bert Francis, an amusement park concessionaire, three sons, Robert and James Francis, and Royce Leland of Pocatello, Idaho, and a daughter, Mrs. Lulu Moyes of Ogden, Utah. Mrs. Francis was 50 years of age and she and husband had wintered for the past four years in San Bernardino.
information from a newspaper article published on November 4, 1934
from WORLD CONNECT, Ruth Elena Clayton was born in Kanab, Utah on September 13, 1884 to William Heber Clayton of Illinois and Mary Ellen Elmer of Utah, one of their nine children. She married James Henry(Harry) Leyland of Utah on July 23, 1903 in Salt Lake City, Utah and they had one son, Royce G. Leyland before they divorced. She later married Robert Henry Francis of Iowa and they had four children together. She died in Victorville, California on November 3, 1934 and is buried in Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, California.
information from a newspaper article published on November 4, 1934
from WORLD CONNECT, Ruth Elena Clayton was born in Kanab, Utah on September 13, 1884 to William Heber Clayton of Illinois and Mary Ellen Elmer of Utah, one of their nine children. She married James Henry(Harry) Leyland of Utah on July 23, 1903 in Salt Lake City, Utah and they had one son, Royce G. Leyland before they divorced. She later married Robert Henry Francis of Iowa and they had four children together. She died in Victorville, California on November 3, 1934 and is buried in Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, California.
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RUTH E. FRANCIS / 1884 (rose) 1934
Gravesite Details
Buried between Madison Baldwin and Robert Francis in the Cedarlawn Lot, sort of mid-lot, CDI provided the date of death in San Bernardino County
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