Jacob Flowers

1763 - 1855  (92 years)

• Name	Jacob Flowers
  Born	1763	North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Died	1855	Rutherford Co. TN
  Notes	Family correspondence indicates Jacob left Sampson County on March 28, 1833 to go to Tennessee. His wife we know only as Lavinia. Jacob's will dated July 24, 1852 and filed in October term 1855, Gibson County, TN lists thirteen children: Stephen, Lavinia, Waitman, Jessee, Jacob, John, Hillary, Michael, Thomas, Alfred, Edna, Mary and Elizabeth, who married a Thomas and had two sons, John & Henry Thomas. Jessee, a son of Jacob Flowers, was mentioned in the court records as being a courier for his father in Jan. 1835, in bringing money from the sale of plantation lands in Sampson County to Tennessee. Jacob bought woodlands in Gibson County on 14 Jan 1838, cleared land and moved there soon after. At the time he was seventy-two years old. He obviously had a pioneering spirit and the health to match it. Gibson Co TN Will Book Vol E Page 342 October Term 1855 Will of Jacob FLOWERS, (abstracted By D T McMillen, Dec 2003, from microfilm) All Debts to first be paid; estate to then be divided into fourteen parts. One part is to wife Lavina. And one part each to the following sons and daughters: Stephanie, Lavina, Waitman, Jesse, Jacob, John, Hilary, Michael, Thomas, Alfred, Edna and Mary. Grandsons John Thomas and Henry, children of his deceased daughter Elizabeth, are to share one fourteenth part. Will dated: 24 July 1852
  Person ID	I11988	Master File
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Simon Burwell Flowers,   b. 05 May 1721, Jerusalem, Isle of Wight Co. VA ,   d. 06 Nov 1795, Wayne Co. NC  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Sarah,   b. 1735, North Carolina ,   d. 1785, Wayne Co. NC  (Age 50 years)
  Married	1753	Davie Co. NC
  Family ID	F7097	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart