Posted on: Green Co. Wi Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/GreenObits/10523 Surname: Stockburn, Butts, Walker, Watkins, George ------------------------- Albany, Green County Wisconsin Vindicator, Thursday, Feb. 25, 1892 Died, at his residence in the town of Brooklyn on Thursday Feb. 18, 1892, Francis B. Stockburn, aged 86 years, 3 months and 10 days. Saturday, Rev. H.A. Rogers officiated . We take the following sketch of his life from the Green County History: Francis B. Stockburn has been a resident of Green County since 1848, with the exception of four years spent in Madison, during which he was engaged in draying. He was a native of England, born in Birmingham Nov. 8, 1805. His early life was spent upon a farm, but he afterwards engaged in various occupations, among the rest publishing a newspaper for four years. In 1841 he went to France, and in 1843 came to the United States. He stopped a short time in New York City, and then visited other localities, but was not favorably impressed with eastern people as a class, and emigrated westward. He first located in Milwaukee and worked there at shoemaking. In 1846, in the company of E.M. Kirby, he purchased considerable land in Green County, but resided in Sheboygan County until 1848. He then settled at Attica, in the town of Brooklyn, where he at first worked at the shoemaker's trade, but soon drifted into farming, which he has since continued with the exception before mentioned. He was married in 1845 to Ann Walker, who died March 15, 1882. They had reared nine children, three of whom are now living--Calra, wife of Samuel Watkins; Isabel, wife of Thomas George and Maria, wife of Frank Butts