Bio of Flora, Clarence Morton - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: William S. Boggess 26 Jan 2006 Revised 22 Mar 2006 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.html ========================================================================== ::Fairlawn Cemetery--OKC OK CLARENCE MORTON FLORA (1868KS-1924OK) Was born near Liberty, Kan., [Wednesday] April 22 1868." according to Oklahoma City's "Daily Oklahoman" obituary, page#5, 29 November 1924. ("Liberty" didn't exist then, ---- to be correct; it was Verdigris Township, Wilson county, Kansas with 1870 Post Office Montgomery City. Afterwards, Verdigris City & Montgomery City were combined and named Liberty, which was moved east to be on the new railroad in 1871. Clarence's parents were John Andrew FLORA (1845IN-1934KS) and Mary Elizabeth SHULTS (1851OH-1874KS), pioneering early Osage Indian Ceded Lands now Montgomery county, Kansas. Clarence had a store in Coffeyville that burnt a couple months before his first wife, Alice Kingsbury, died 6 August 1892 at age 20, buried at Oswego Cemetery. (It was but a couple months later, October 1892 when the Dalton Gang rode into Coffeyville to rob C M Condon Bank and First Nat Bank, ). Clarence and Alice met while she visited relatives in Oswego, Kansas. Her mother was Mary (Wallick) Kingsbury married Frank E Kingsbury in Miami county, IN in 1869, in 1880 census living with, music teacher sister, Elmira (Wallick) Carrier in Batavia, Illinois, both aunts to my maternal grandmother, Maude Wallick, also from Chicago area in 1892. Later, 27 y/o Clarence married 19 y/o Pearl E Sawyer of Cherryvale, Kansas, daughter of 1880 councilman N B Swayer, in Cherryvale 27 October 1895, who may also have died for he is then married by S S Estey to Stella L Cavert, 22, 29 November 1898, at her parents home, Mr & Mrs J G Cavert, in Independence, 1900 census has him "Merchant --- Tailor", married to "Della" (Stella) (1876KS-1926OK). He and Bob Kincaid, s/o 1st Mayor of Cherryvale, Honorable C C Kincaid , had Independence Shirt Co. and by 1902 he owned his own shirt factory. They had two known sons, Carl Morton (1904KS-1973WI), Clarence Cavert (1906KS-1998OK). Family moved "Flora Shirt Company" to Oklahoma City, in 1911 (formerly Indian Territory since 1828, 46th state created 16 November 1907), where both were active in civic and church affairs, he a deacon of First Presbyterian church. Clarence died 1924, Stella in 1926, both are at rest in Fairlawn Cemetery's Mausoleum, Oklahoma City. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html