Time and Tide

Christopher Ludwig Franciscus was born in 1680 at Grafschaft, Germany. He immigrated to America, ca. 1710, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He died in 1757. His great grandson, Christopher Francisco, was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1804, the son of Lewis and Elizabeth Somerfield Francisco. He married Helena Bowern in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1841. They had nine children, 1842-1862. The family lived in Roanoke, Montgomery, and Tazewell Counties, Virginia, and migrated to Claiborne County, Tennessee, ca. 1859. He died in 1884. Descendants lived in Tennessee and elsewhere.