Elijah K. Flowers

1825-1868 · North Carolina

Born 1825, North Carolina

Died 1868

Children include Darewa

Elijah K. Flowers was born about 1825 in North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Watson, daughter of John and Elizabeth E. Watson, about 1848. In 1850 the census found them in Anson County, North Carolina: Elijah K., 25, Elizabeth, 26, and their first child, John O., one year old.

A daughter, Darewa Ann Eliza, was born in North Carolina in March 1851. By 1860 the family had moved west to Itawamba County, in the northeast corner of Mississippi, where the census listed E. K. Flowers, his wife Elizabeth, and six children: John, 12, Elza, 11, M. F., 8, William M., 6, Holland, 4, and a baby boy not yet named. That baby was Ludy Winfield Flowers, who gave his own birthplace as Iuka, Mississippi.

Elijah was killed in a hunting accident in Mississippi about 1868, by a family account. Elizabeth took the children to her parents in Decatur County, Tennessee. When Ludy died in Henderson County, Tennessee, in 1940, his death record named his parents as Elijah Flowers and Elizabeth Watson.

Children

Darewa Ann Eliza Flowers 1851-1917

Sources

United States census 1860, Itawamba County, Mississippi, page 211, NARA M653, FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:M6GZ-1TV.

Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966, Henderson County, 1940, certificate 9378, FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:NSJ6-RGH.

United States census 1850, Anson County, North Carolina, dwelling 1150 (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:M4BQ-RKV); 1860, Itawamba County, Mississippi, page 211 (ark 61903/1:1:M6GZ-1TV); Tennessee death record of Ludy Winfield Flowers, Henderson County, 1940, certificate 9378 (ark 61903/1:1:NSJ6-RGH); Find a Grave memorials 118154386 (Elizabeth Watson Flowers), 117731818 (Darewa Ann Eliza Flowers Horn).

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