George Hicks Fancher - Merced, CA - Out of Place Graves on Waymarking.com

This marks the final resting place of the local rancher who had owned land for miles around. In his will he left $25,000, a huge sum of money at that time, and instructions for "proper interment of my remains in a suitable monument." No one seems to have recorded a reason why Fancher did not want to be buried in the Merced cemetery.
Catherine Julien, a historian, says, "George Hicks Fancher was not a big spender during his lifetime," noted Julien. "He had a reputation of being a skinflint who scrounged away his money and spent little on himself. The obelisk is his monument to himself."

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When he died in 1900, this location was a rural corner near the old stage route to Yosemite from Merced. No one could have envisioned that it would later become a busy highway.

First Name: George Last Name: Fancher Born: 02/09/1828 Died: 03/30/1900

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