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Catherine Augusta <I>Howell</I> Flournoy

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Catherine Augusta Howell Flournoy

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
21 Nov 1900 (aged 100)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section I (eye), Lot 69
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Daughter of Revolutionary War Soldier, Major Reading Howell of New Jersey, and Catherine Yerkes.

Wife of Brig. General Thomas Flournoy, who was a prominent Augusta, Georgia, lawyer. He served with distinction as brigadier-general of volunteers in the War of 1812. They married Oct. 7, 1834 in Oglethorpe Co., GA. He died in 1857.

After the War Between the States, which ruined and devastated her estate, she returned to her Philadelphia home, where she died. The Thomas Flournoy Papers are located in the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.

DAR Real Daughter

Philadelphia Public Ledger, Nov. 23, 1900:
"FLOURNOY – On November 21, 1900, CATHERINE A. widow of Thomas Flournoy, of Augusta, Ga. Brigadier General, U. S. A., during the War of 1812, and daughter of Reeding Howell of Philadelphia. Major during the Revolutionary War. Funeral services and interment private."
Daughter of Revolutionary War Soldier, Major Reading Howell of New Jersey, and Catherine Yerkes.

Wife of Brig. General Thomas Flournoy, who was a prominent Augusta, Georgia, lawyer. He served with distinction as brigadier-general of volunteers in the War of 1812. They married Oct. 7, 1834 in Oglethorpe Co., GA. He died in 1857.

After the War Between the States, which ruined and devastated her estate, she returned to her Philadelphia home, where she died. The Thomas Flournoy Papers are located in the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.

DAR Real Daughter

Philadelphia Public Ledger, Nov. 23, 1900:
"FLOURNOY – On November 21, 1900, CATHERINE A. widow of Thomas Flournoy, of Augusta, Ga. Brigadier General, U. S. A., during the War of 1812, and daughter of Reeding Howell of Philadelphia. Major during the Revolutionary War. Funeral services and interment private."


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