Contra Costa-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Flournoy, Thomas 1824 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

THOMAS FLOURNOY.—Is the son of Hay B. and Mary (Brinegar) Flournoy, and was born
in Estill county, Kentucky, June 24,1824. Here he resided until he attained the
age of fourteen years, when he moved with his parents to Linn county, Missouri,
and dwelt until 1850. In this year he immigrated to California by way of the
plains. At Big Meadows, on the Humboldt, while on the long journey to the land
of future promise, he had the misfortune, on August 30,1850, to lose his wife,
whom he had married in Linn county, Missouri. Here, at this lonely place, was
she consigned to Mother Earth, adding one more to the long list of brave women
who had accompanied their husbands into unknown lands. Pursuing his desolate
way, Mr. Flournoy arrived in California in September, 1850, and until 1855 was
farming in Santa Clara county. In that year he came to Contra Costa, and settled
on his present estate of four hundred and fifty acres, situated near the
thriving village of Danville, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising.
He married, firstly, October 21, 1847, Elizabeth Neal, a native of Kentucky, who
died at Big Meadows, on the Humboldt, while crossing the plains, August 30,
1850. By this union he has one son, William H., at present a resident of Sonoma
county. Married, secondly, August 31, 1854, Laurentie Kifer, by whom he has:
Lillian (now Mrs. Rice), John T. (now Professor of Mathematics in the University
of the Pacific), Roland F., Ada E., Laura, Dora, Shelby H. and Lucy.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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