Grave Hunter Nixon's Parents Hannah Milhous Nixon                   Francis Anthony Nixon D.O.B.: 1885                                 D.O.B.: 1878 D.O.D.: 1967                                 D.O.D.: 1956 Location: Rose Hills Memorial Park; Sunset Lawn;  Lot 47;#3 & #4 Biographical Notes: Francis and Hannah Nixon had five sons.  Francis was from a Scotch-Irish farming family. Francis was born in Ohio and worked there as a streetcar motorman.  He decided to move to a warmer climate and settled in Whittier, CA. He took a job running a trolley. This is where Francis met Hannah. She moved to California in 1897 with her parents who practiced the Quaker religion.  Francis and she met at a Quaker meeting house in 1908.  The year before Richard Nixon was born Francis moved his family to Yorba Linda to start a lemon grove. Once the fruit stand didn't succeed, Francis decided to move his family back to Whittier where he started a gas station which sold groceries.