Frances Porcher

Frances Porcher (1853–1935) was an American writer and journalist.

Ancestors Frances Cannon Smith

John Woodson Smith was one of the original "Forty-Niners" who crossed the plains to California; a major in the Confederate army in Vicksburg during the siege and served until the close of the war. He married, on May 17, 1843, Mary Frances, daughter of Rev. Edward Cannon, an eminent Methodist minister of Virginia (niece of Gov. Cannon of Tennessee), and wife, Jane Lasley, granddaughter of John J. Beckley, a confrere of Richard Henry Lee and Carter Braxton, with whom he served in the Virginia Assembly before the war. He was clerk of the Senate and House of Delegates in Virginia 1777-86; clerk of the Committee for Courts of Justice and the Committee of Trade 1776; Alderman of Richmond 1782; served three years in Virginia High Court of Chancery; legislator for Virginia and clerk of the U. S. Senate, serving until his death in Washington 1807. He came from the Beckleys or Bickleys of Devonshire, as shown by the arms he used.

Her husband, Thomas Davis Porcher, died on September 19, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri. After this, she moved to Los Angeles, California. She died in 1935 and is buried with her husband at the DuBose Old Episcopal Cemetery in Willington, South Carolina.