Montgomery-Labette-Lyon County KS Archives Obituaries.....FLORA, John Andrew November 4, 1934

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Suth Kansas Tribune,Wed., Nov. 7, 1934, front page.


Courtesy of Maryann Johnson of the Kansas Room, Independence (KS) Library. 



      "John Flora, Pioneer Settler, Dead 





      John Flora, age 90, died on Sunday morning at his home in Oswego, Kansas where
he has lived for the past 20 years since retiring from active farm work.

 

   John Flora came to Kansas with Henry Conrad and several others and entered claims
west of Liberty near Brown's Ford before the signing of Osage treaty with the
Indians in 1868, but later- moved to Labette county, where he had since resided. 



      His son, Clarence Flora, now deceased, was a well known citizen of
Independence at one time, conducting the Independence Shirt Co., in partnership with
Bob Kincaid. These two men built up a business employing 20 r 30 people in the
manufacturing of shirts. 



      Mr. Flora is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Carl Gray, who is wife of the
president of the Union Pacific railway, and lives in Omaha. The other daughter is
Mrs. Elmer C Clark of Oswego whose husband is the district judge of Labette county.




      The funeral was held in Oswego on Tuesday." 



Additional Comments:


John was buried with his second wife, Addie C Smith-Flora, mother of Mrs. Clark, who
had preceded him in death on 4 Jan 1913, both in Oswego Cemetery. 



John's first wife, Mary Elizabeth (Shults) Flora mother of his four children,
Clarence M(1868KS-1924OK), Harriette A (1869KS-1956ME), William W (1871KS-1922CO)
and Jennie G (1874KS-1874KS,--- died 9 Nov 1874, mysteriously buried in Americus
Cemetery, Lyon county, KS. 



For biography see: 

http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/montgomery/bios/flora112bs.txt



Booklet "OUR FLORA FAMILY filed with:



Kansas Room, Independence Public Library, Emporia Public Library, Labette
Genealogical Society, Oswego, Lyon County Historical Achives, Emporia

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