Loretta Serepta Gore (1841 - 1865)

Born 1 Jun 1841 in Mercer County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of William Fly — married 1857 in Andrew Co., Missouri

Descendants

Died 16 Jun 1865 at age 24 in Buried at Plum Creek, Nebraska/

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: LORETTA SEREPTA /GORE/^[2]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 01 JUN 1841

Place: Mercer County, Virginia^[3]

Death

Death:

Date: 16 JUN 1865

Place: Buried at Plum Creek, Nebraska/^[4]

Cause: Consumption - Tuberculosis

Event

Event:

Type: Death Facts

Place: Gravestone, 1865, is with graves of Plum Creek Indian Massacre victims of 1864

Event:

Type: Notes (Facts Page)

Place: 4th child, Alice born & died on trail in Colorado/

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1850

Place: Jefferson, Andrew, Missouri^[5]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Phelps County, Nebraska, USA^[6]

Note

Note: #N9

Object

Object: @M73@

Object: @M74@

Object: @M1767@

Sources

1. ↑ Gore-858 was created by Bonnee Ballinger through the import of Ballinger - Fly 2014-01-04.ged on Jan 4, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S186
3. ↑ Source: #S186
4. ↑ Source: #S186
5. ↑ Source: #S5 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850.M432, 1,009 rolls. Jefferson, Andrew, Missouri, roll M432_391, page 96, image 195.
6. ↑ Source: #S186

• Source: S186 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Web: Nebraska, Find A Grave Index, 1854-2012 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012; Repository: #R2
• Repository: R2 Name: Ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S5 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT CONT United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850 CONT
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Notes

Note N9William Fly and his wife were on their way back to Missouri in 1865 when she died in June 1865 in Plum Creek, Nebraska.

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William Fly, was born 15 Sep 1830 - NOTE - 1830 - not 1820. Howard Co., MO. He was son of John Boon Fly. His first wife, mother of his children, was Loretta SAREPTA Gore. She was called "Sarepta Gore" before marrying William. She died of Tuberculosis. Her grave was re-located to lie with the victims of the "Plum Creek Massacre" by her husband, the widower William Fly. This was done after her FIRST interment on the prairie a year or so before, at the time of her death. There is a stone marking her grave. William didn't want her grave to be lost in the prairie where she at first was laid to rest.

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7/13/2011 - I would like to email you about information on Loretta Sarepta Fly. A stone in Plum Creek Cemetery, Phelps County, NE markes her grave. I do not know who put up the stone but probably some years after she died. I believe this cemetery was started before we were county. There are only three markers but the cemetery has many graves in it. It is close to the site of the Plum Creek masacure that happened 7 August 1864 and Fort Plum Creek was built shortly after this event because of the indian raids. This fort was very near the cemetery site. Sandra Slater

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Sarepta Gore Fly 1841 - 1865

Sarepta Gore, the daughter of James Gore of Andrew County, Missouri, was born January 6, 1841. In 1857 she married William Fly, a twenty-seven year old native of Howard County, Missouri. Fly went to the California gold mines in 1852 and remained there for five years. Sarepta and William were married upon his return to Missouri. The Flys soon took up farming in Kansas, but after three years there they joined the Colorado gold rush and crossed the Plains to a Rocky Mountain mining town. Sarepta Gore Fly Tombstone

In 1865 the Fly family decided to return to Missouri. By this time William and Sarepta were the parents of three children: Carey B., born December 14, 1858; John Davis, born October 12, 1860; and James M., born April 21, 1863. When the family reached the Plumb Creek area, Sarepta died. According to family tradition, her death was sudden and unexpected, and the exact cause is unknown. The date, as revealed on the gravestone, was June 16, 1865. A local legend says that William returned years later with the headstone to mark his wife's grave, carrying it in a wheelbarrow from Kearney, but like other similar wheelbarrow stories, this one is probably pure myth.

The exact location of the Sarepta Fly grave is unknown. The headstone marking her grave was discovered early this century by children playing in a field on the old Dilworth Ranch, not far from this location. It had been covered by prairie grasses and was found half-buried in an animal burrow.

William Fly settled in Montana, where he again took up mining and later ranching. He remarried in 1872 and became a prominent citizen of the Bozeman area, where he died in December 1887.

The Sarepta Fly headstone was moved to this location (Plum Creek Pioneer Cemetery) in 1930 in preparation for the dedication of the Plum Creek Massacre marker and cemetery. The only actual burial within this cemetery plot, however, is that of a small, unidentified child whose remains were discovered on a farm near Loomis, Nebraska. The re-internment took place in 1963.