Bio: Joseph Oscar Flores,, Desoto  Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by Gaytha Carver Thompson





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Joseph Oscar Flores has passed the uneventful life of a planter, having
steadily pursued the even tenor of his way," and is now classed among the
prosperous  agriculturists of De Soto Parish .  He was born in 1855, in the
house in which he now resides.    His parents were Onafre and Mary. (Roblo)
Flores.  The former was born in Texas, and the latter in De Soto Parish, La.,
and both died here in 1879.     They were members of the Catholic Church.  The
father was brought to De Soto Parish his parents when a boy, and here he spent
the rest of his life as a planter, his first location a woodland farm, on
which the subject sketch is now residing.  Onafre Flores was of Spanish
lineage, and was one of the first settlers of this parish, where his
intelligence, talents and ability soon won him a widespread reputation and
numerous friends.  

Joseph Oscar Flores was the ninth of ten children born to his parents, and on
the plantation on which he is now residing he was reared, his education being
received in the local common schools and at Mansfield.  He was married in
1883, to Miss Sallie, daughter of Hamilton and Eliza Ann Sloan, who were born
and married in Alabama, from which State they removed to De Soto Parish, La,
at an early day.  Mr. Sloan died here in August, 1861, and his widow in
February, 1890.  He was a well to do planter.  Mrs. Flores was born in
Mansfield, and her union with Mr. Flores has resulted in the birth of two
children.  

Mr. Flores is the owner of 720 acres of land, with about 300 cleared, situated
about eight miles north east of Mansfield, which he inherited from the father.
He is a member of Lake Land Lodge, of the Farmers' Alliance, and in his
religious views is a Catholic, his wife being a presbyterian.