Francis Bacon Sears, b. 21 Jan 1849 in Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, d. 26 Aug 1914 in Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, son of Edmund Hamilton Sears & Ellen Bacon. He married Mary Elizabeth Sparhawk on June 11, 1875 in Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Francis Philip Sears, b. 30 Sept. 1869 in Waltham, Massachusetts, d. 29 Nov 1966 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, son of Philip Howes Sears & Sarah Pratt Lyman. He married Marie Musgrave Merrill on March 27, 1915 in Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota. (Descendant of Richard Sears, who landed at Plymouth May 8, 1630. The family was originally from Kent, England, the ancestor of the American line being Adam Sayer, who died in 1346, possessed of the manor of Hougham, near Rochester.)