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Re: Homer Flower

FLOWER

Posted By: Neil Hall (email)
Date: 3/14/2009 at 19:36:25

In Response To: Homer Flower (Gerri Unitt)

Iowa cemetery records
Name: Homer Flower
Death Date: 28 Apr 1864
Page #: 60
Birth Date: 1820
Cemetery: Reed
Town: Sperry
Level Info: Clay County, Iowa Grave Records

Homer Flower of Ogle County, IL was granted a 160 acre land grant in Fayette County, Iowa in 1855.

Children's 1880 census indicated their father was from MA

1850 census has a Homer Flower, age 30, with parents, Spencer, 64, b. MA and Rosamund, 65, b. MA in West Springfield, Hampden, MA

1850 family has
Homer Flower, 30, MA
Mary E, 26, CT
Lois, 4 mo, MA

1856 Iowa State Census in Fairfield township, Fayette County, IA
Henry Flower, 37, MA
Mary, 33, CT
Louis, 6, female, MA

This is a pretty good match to the 1850 census in Hampden County, MA. They must have been Ogle County, IL on the way here. Mary may have died, and he remarried Julie here.

The age would be right for the cemetery record on Homer Flower in Clay county.

1860 census in Fairfield township, Fayette County, dated July 21 has
Henry Flower, 39, MA
Louis, 9, female, MA

This would support first wife Mary dying.

Just above this was another Henry E Flower, 38, from MA and his family.

I found a tree on Ancestry.com with Spencer Flower and his wife and their ancestry.

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=8094309

Name: Mary E. Flower
Death Date: 17 Feb 1860
Page #: 60
Birth Date: 1824
Cemetery: Reed
Town: Sperry
Level Info: Clay County, Iowa Grave Records

Looks like they may have moved to Clay County where Mary died in Feb 1860. Then Homer/Henry and daughter moved back to Fayette County, to be near the other Flower there who may have been his brother. There he remarried and fathered Willis, Charles and Homer. He may have died before Homer Jr's birth. When Homer died his body was returned to Clay County to be buried with his first wife Mary.

You may or may not find a marriage record from 1860 in Fayette County. Iowa didn't require vitals registration until 1880, but Fayette County was one of the earlier established counties.

I'm not related.

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