Elisha Flowers was one of Steven F. Austin’s Old 300.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl21
Elisha was married to Polly Smalley. In the winter of 1826 while he and his son Romulus Orlando Flowers Sr. were out hunting with a large group, a band of Karankawa Indians raided the home where his family was staying. His wife Polly was killed by an arrow through her back as she was running away. As she died, she landed on the infant she was carrying, and the infant was smothered to death. Elisha gave up his land grant and moved back to Kentucky where he remained. He later remarried to Susannah Baker. He became a wealthy land owner and horse breeder. He was at a race when a fire broke out at the hotel he was staying in. It is said that he threw his grandson out of a second story window to save him, but he was unable to escape the fire himself and died in it.
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Leah Z
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl21
Elisha was married to Polly Smalley. In the winter of 1826 while he and his son Romulus Orlando Flowers Sr. were out hunting with a large group, a band of Karankawa Indians raided the home where his family was staying. His wife Polly was killed by an arrow through her back as she was running away. As she died, she landed on the infant she was carrying, and the infant was smothered to death. Elisha gave up his land grant and moved back to Kentucky where he remained. He later remarried to Susannah Baker. He became a wealthy land owner and horse breeder. He was at a race when a fire broke out at the hotel he was staying in. It is said that he threw his grandson out of a second story window to save him, but he was unable to escape the fire himself and died in it.
Contributor:
Leah Z
Elisha Flowers was one of Steven F. Austin’s Old 300.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl21
Elisha was married to Polly Smalley. In the winter of 1826 while he and his son Romulus Orlando Flowers Sr. were out hunting with a large group, a band of Karankawa Indians raided the home where his family was staying. His wife Polly was killed by an arrow through her back as she was running away. As she died, she landed on the infant she was carrying, and the infant was smothered to death. Elisha gave up his land grant and moved back to Kentucky where he remained. He later remarried to Susannah Baker. He became a wealthy land owner and horse breeder. He was at a race when a fire broke out at the hotel he was staying in. It is said that he threw his grandson out of a second story window to save him, but he was unable to escape the fire himself and died in it.
Contributor:
Leah Z
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl21
Elisha was married to Polly Smalley. In the winter of 1826 while he and his son Romulus Orlando Flowers Sr. were out hunting with a large group, a band of Karankawa Indians raided the home where his family was staying. His wife Polly was killed by an arrow through her back as she was running away. As she died, she landed on the infant she was carrying, and the infant was smothered to death. Elisha gave up his land grant and moved back to Kentucky where he remained. He later remarried to Susannah Baker. He became a wealthy land owner and horse breeder. He was at a race when a fire broke out at the hotel he was staying in. It is said that he threw his grandson out of a second story window to save him, but he was unable to escape the fire himself and died in it.
Contributor:
Leah Z
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A man of peculiarities, but peculiarly loved by his family, his brethen, his neighbors, lamented, though triumphant in death.
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