Birth: 25 Aug 1865
New Salem, Franklin, MA, USA

parents were not married
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 vol 177 pg 269 line 10

Birth cert lists Edwin Collins Hatstat as father of illigitmate female child Flora Idella Bliss - mother Chloe Ann(Bliss)maiden Potter


Residence: 11 Jun 1870
Age: 4
New Salem, Franklin, MA, USA
1870 United States Federal Census
mother is head of household & siblings

Residence: 11 Jun 1880
Age: 14
New Salem, Franklin, MA, USA
1880 United States Federal Census: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter mother is head of household with one other sibling George @ 2yrs

Marriage to Frank Augustus Sampson
1 Jan 1883 Age: 17
New Salem, Franklin, MA, USA
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

Death: 31 Mar 1899
Age: 33
Scottville Village, Mason, MI, USA
Riverside Cemetery, Custer, Mason, WI, USA

}}}}Information from the Mason County Historical Society in 1981:.

Flora Idell Bliss Sampson, Liber. 2, P. 124. Died 31 Mar 1899, aged 33 years, 6 months 15 days..

Puerperal fever (infection which killed at childbirth) accompanied by stillborn male, 1899..

Parents Frank A and Flora Sampson.
Flora's parents: Albert Bliss born Switzerland and Caperol Back born Germany,
Flora's birthplace: Mass.
[Information on parents in error, probably given by Frank.
Father listed on birth certificate was Albert Bliss but he was born in Massachusetts and mother Chloe Ann Potter also born Mass.] {{{

--Albert A Bliss ->-> ENLISTED 19 Jul 1861
died: 30 Jan 1864 Age: 35
Cleveland, OH, USA
Albert A. Bliss Side: Union Regiment State/Origin: Massachusetts Regiment Name:21 Massachusetts Infantry. Regiment Name Expanded:21st Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry Co
Albert A Bliss in the U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865