Mississippi Family Group Sheet for the Armstrong Ellis FLOWERS Family *********************************************** Copyright John Burnett. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: John Burnett Email address: Husband: Armstrong Ellis FLOWERS Birthdate: Circa 1823 Birthplace: Kentucky Death date: 1878 Place of death: Claiborne County, Mississippi Burial: Rocky Springs, Claiborne County, Mississippi Father: Thomas M. FLOWERS Mother: Elizabeth WARD Marriage date: 5 June 1850 Marriage place: Claiborne County, Mississippi Wife: Martha Ann READ/REED Birthdate: 1833 Birthplace: Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1885 Place of death: Mississippi Burial: Rocky Springs, Claiborne County, Mississippi Father: Charles REED ? Mother: Susan STRONG ? CHILDREN Child No. 1: Joseph Ellis FLOWERS Sex: Male Birthdate: 1852 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1950 Place of death: Mississippi? Burial: Unknown/Mississippi Marriage date: 21 May 1872 Marriage place: Hinds County, Mississippi Spouse's name: Alzada A. MYERS Child No. 2: Thomas FLOWERS Sex: Male Birthdate: 1854 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1950 Place of death: Mississippi? Burial: Unknown/Mississippi Marriage date: 13 November 1872 Marriage place: Hinds County, Mississippi Spouse's name: Leonora Helen MCELWEE Child No. 3: Elizabeth Ann FLOWERS Sex: Female Birthdate: 04 January 1852 (census states 1855) Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1900 Place of death: Frost, Navarro County, Texas Burial: Weir Family Cemetery, Ellis County, Texas Marriage date: 26 July 1871 Marriage place: (Hinds County?), Mississippi Spouse's name: Noah Chatham ANDERSON (1848-1922) Child No. 4: Sarah Virginia FLOWERS Sex: Female Birthdate: 1856 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1950 Place of death: Mississippi Burial: Unknown/Mississippi Marriage date: 21 December 1870 Marriage place: Claiborne County, Mississippi Spouse's name: Edward Livingston STRONG (1842-1881) Child No. 5: Charles Wesley FLOWERS Sex: Male Birthdate: 1857 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1950 Place of death: Mississippi ? Marriage date: Burial: Unknown/Mississippi Marriage place: Spouse's name: Unknown Child No. 6: Susan Agnes "Sudie" FLOWERS Sex: Female Birthdate: 26 November 1857 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: 12 May 1897 Place of death: Claiborne County, Mississippi Burial: Flowers Old Yellow Fever Cemetery, Claiborne County, Mississippi Marriage date: 31 December 1879 Marriage place: Claiborne County, Mississippi Spouse's name: William Anderson BRYANT (1850-1909) Child No. 7: Martha Jane FLOWERS Sex: Female Birthdate: 1862 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: Bef. 1960 Place of death: Mississippi Burial: Unknown/Mississippi Marriage date: 03 January 1883 Marriage place: Claiborne County, Mississippi Spouse's name: Drury L. CURTIS Child No. 8: Joyce Foster FLOWERS Sex: Female Birthdate: 24 July 1864 Birthplace: Claiborne County, Mississippi Death date: 12 May 1953 Place of death: Pollock, Grant Parish, Louisiana Burial: Pollock Cemetery, Grant Parish, Louisiana Marriage date: 12 December 1879 Marriage place: Claiborne County, Mississippi Spouse's name: William Rossman BOREN (1858-1918) Documentation: Research of John Burnett, Reno, NV; Ethel Langford of Washington, D.C. US Census Records 1850, 1860, 1870 for Claiborne County, Mississippi. Civil War Record of Armstrong Ellis Flowers. Armstrong Ellis Flowers came with his parents from Kentucky as a small child to Claiborne County, Mississippi. He was one of seven known children. His siblings were John B. Flowers, Omera L. Flowers, Mary Ann Flowers, Martha Jane Flowers, Wellington Flowers and Charles H. Flowers. The last two sons were thought to be half brothers by a previous marriage of his father Thomas M. Flowers. His father Thomas M. Flowers died at Claiborne County, Mississippi in 1826. After his father's death his mother Elizabeth Ward Flowers remarried to Thomas T. Morris on 5 May 1858. Armstrong Ellis Flowers lived near Rocky Springs, Mississippi where he owned a cotton plantation. The 1860 census records stated he owned seven slaves. At the time of his death in 1878 he owned 135 acres of land in Claiborne County, Mississippi. He died during a Yellow Fever epidemic. Armstrong Ellis Flowers was a Private in the Confederate Army. He served in Co. B, 38th Regiment, Mississippi Volunteers from October 9, 1863 till 1865. A government marker was placed in his memory by his great-great-great granddaughter, Katherine Miller Burnett in 1998 in the Rocky Springs Cemetery at Rocky Springs, Mississippi.