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Flora Clark O'Banion

Birth
Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Death
1860 (aged 23–24)
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Burial
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Flora Clark was the daughter of John W. and Mariah Burr Clark. She married James Hall O'Banion on Nov. 25, 1852. They were the parents of Florinda Isabelle, James Alfred Alpheus and Luella Marie O'Banion. In addtion, Flora and James raised her half-sister, Emma Lane after Flora's mother and step-father died in 1852.

Flora and James moved to Denver, CO in 1859 or early 1860, where James worked in the freighting business between Omaho, NE and Denver. They are shown in August 1860 on the Denver, Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory census. Sometime after this cenus, in the latter part of 1860, Flora died while James was away on business (the source for this information was Flora's granddaughter, Margaret Boone Tiffany).

NOTE: Denver was founded in 1858 but at the time of Flora's death, it was still part of Kansas Territory (it did not become Colorado until 1861). The "oldest" cemetery in Denver is Riverside Cemetery, which wasn't founded until 1876, well after Flora's death. In addtion, Denver did not keep systematic death records until 1910, so there is little hope of finding the actual location of Flora's grave.
Flora Clark was the daughter of John W. and Mariah Burr Clark. She married James Hall O'Banion on Nov. 25, 1852. They were the parents of Florinda Isabelle, James Alfred Alpheus and Luella Marie O'Banion. In addtion, Flora and James raised her half-sister, Emma Lane after Flora's mother and step-father died in 1852.

Flora and James moved to Denver, CO in 1859 or early 1860, where James worked in the freighting business between Omaho, NE and Denver. They are shown in August 1860 on the Denver, Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory census. Sometime after this cenus, in the latter part of 1860, Flora died while James was away on business (the source for this information was Flora's granddaughter, Margaret Boone Tiffany).

NOTE: Denver was founded in 1858 but at the time of Flora's death, it was still part of Kansas Territory (it did not become Colorado until 1861). The "oldest" cemetery in Denver is Riverside Cemetery, which wasn't founded until 1876, well after Flora's death. In addtion, Denver did not keep systematic death records until 1910, so there is little hope of finding the actual location of Flora's grave.


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