Today we pay tribute to a great romantic literary character, Francesca Johnson from the Robert James Waller novel, The Bridges of Madison County. Francesca was born in 1920 near Naples, Italy . Forever remembered as the woman who loved Robert Kincaid. She died in January 1989 at home on her farm in Madison County, Iowa. The Final Footprint – Francesca was cremated and her ashes were scattered from the Roseman Bridge in Madison County, Iowa. She could not have Robert in life, so she gave herself to him in death.
