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Elizabeth <I>Myers</I> Flowers

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Elizabeth Myers Flowers

Birth
Death
1817 (aged 41–42)
Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: BURIED: Greene Co., Pennsylvania Add to Map
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BORN c.1775

MARRIED: Benjamin Flowers in 1794

Her husband, Benjamin Flowers, died intestate in Greene Co., Pennsylvania, in 1808.

"At an Orphan Court held at the town of Waynesburg ... Aug. 22, 1808." Hon. Samuel Roberts, Esq. Judge. "On the petition of Elizabeth Flowers, widow and relict of Benjamin Flowers, late of the County of Greene, setting forth that the said Benjamin Flowers died intestate, leaving John Flowers, his son, and Margaret, Elizabeth, and Sarah, his daughters, his heirs, all of which four children are under the age of fourteen years, and that the said children are entitled to some personal estate by the death of their said father. She therefore prays the Court to appoint a guardian of the persons and property of the said four minor children and recommends Jacob Black, Esq., as a suitable person for that purpose. Whereupon the Court appoints Jacob Black, Esq., guardian of the said John, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Sarah Flowers, agreeably to the prayer of the petitioner." (Greene County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court Docket vol. 1, 1797-1831, page 22)

Elizabeth Flowers died after August 1808 when she petitioned Greene County court as above.

She died in Greene Co., Pennsylvania, by 1817. Her son, William Flowers, with no father or other relation, petitions the Greene County court for a guardian in January 1818. Greene Co., PA, Orphan's Court Docket Vol 1, page 122)
BORN c.1775

MARRIED: Benjamin Flowers in 1794

Her husband, Benjamin Flowers, died intestate in Greene Co., Pennsylvania, in 1808.

"At an Orphan Court held at the town of Waynesburg ... Aug. 22, 1808." Hon. Samuel Roberts, Esq. Judge. "On the petition of Elizabeth Flowers, widow and relict of Benjamin Flowers, late of the County of Greene, setting forth that the said Benjamin Flowers died intestate, leaving John Flowers, his son, and Margaret, Elizabeth, and Sarah, his daughters, his heirs, all of which four children are under the age of fourteen years, and that the said children are entitled to some personal estate by the death of their said father. She therefore prays the Court to appoint a guardian of the persons and property of the said four minor children and recommends Jacob Black, Esq., as a suitable person for that purpose. Whereupon the Court appoints Jacob Black, Esq., guardian of the said John, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Sarah Flowers, agreeably to the prayer of the petitioner." (Greene County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court Docket vol. 1, 1797-1831, page 22)

Elizabeth Flowers died after August 1808 when she petitioned Greene County court as above.

She died in Greene Co., Pennsylvania, by 1817. Her son, William Flowers, with no father or other relation, petitions the Greene County court for a guardian in January 1818. Greene Co., PA, Orphan's Court Docket Vol 1, page 122)


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