Charles Gaston Flowers (1868 - 1944)

Born 23 Jun 1868 in Pike, Alabama, United States

Husband of Anna Bell (Roberts) Flowers — married 9 Dec 1889 in Coffee, Alabama, United States

Died 15 Jul 1944 at age 76 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Charles Gaston Flowers was born on June 23, 1868, in Pike, Alabama to parents John and Temperance Flowers, who were both 37 years old at the time. He married Anna Bell Roberts on December 9, 1889, in Coffee, Alabama when he was 21 years old. The couple had eight children during their marriage: Lola F, Georgia, Gilland, William Leland, John Gary, Irma, Richard Harvey and Charles Wesley. Charles lived in various places throughout his life including Grimes and Searcy in Alabama and Smith in Arkansas. He passed away on July 15, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 76 and was buried in Wynne, Arkansas.

Sources

• 1870 United States Federal Census: Year: 1870; Census Place: Grimes, Pike, Alabama; Roll: M593_37; Page: 368A Ancestry Record 7163 #13574811
• 1880 United States Federal Census: Year: 1880; Census Place: Grimes, Pike, Alabama; Roll: 29; Page: 147D; Enumeration District: 148 Ancestry Record 6742 #5675628
• 1900 United States Federal Census: Year: 1900; Census Place: Grimes, Pike, Alabama; Roll: 37; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0131 Ancestry Record 7602 #34882680
• 1910 United States Federal Census: Year: 1910; Census Place: Searcy, Cross, Arkansas; Roll: T624_48; Page: 3b; Enumeration District: 0047; FHL microfilm: 1374061 Ancestry Record 7884 #479259
• 1920 United States Federal Census: Year: 1920; Census Place: Searcy, Cross, Arkansas; Roll: T625_60; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 77 Ancestry Record 6061 #65153629
• 1930 United States Federal Census: Year: 1930; Census Place: Searcy, Cross, Arkansas; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0009; FHL microfilm: 2339807 Ancestry Record 6224 #103690569
• 1940 United States Federal Census: Year: 1940; Census Place: Smith, Cross, Arkansas; Roll: m-t0627-00132; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 19-12A Ancestry Record 2442 #101090472
• Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942: Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014. Original data: Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Ancestry Record 60000 #1694498
• Alabama, U.S., Compiled Marriages from Selected Counties, 1809-1920: Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Compiled Marriages from Selected Counties, 1809-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Dodd, Jordan R., comp.. Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920. Ancestry Record 4192 #31067
• Alabama, U.S., Marriage Index, 1800-1969: Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Marriage Index, 1800-1969 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Alabama Center for Health Statistics. Alabama Marriage Index, 1936-1969. Alabama Center for Health Statistics, Montgomery, Alabama.Dodd, Jordan R., et. al. Early American Marriages: Alabama to 1825. Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx.Hunting For Bears, comp. Alabama marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library.Dodd, Jordan R., comp. Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920. Ancestry Record 7838 #2173094
• Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1965: Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958; Roll Number: 7 Ancestry Record 2376 #889987
• Tennessee, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955: Ancestry.com. Tennessee, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874–1955." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records. Ancestry Record 2546 #1154249
• Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45056667/charles-gaston-flowers: accessed 14 June 2023), memorial page for Charles Gaston Flowers (1868–1944), Find A Grave: Memorial #45056667, citing Cogbill Cemetery, Wynne, Cross County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Don & Pam Childers (contributor 46884427).