Florence Etta
"Flora"
(DeMoss) Wake
(1865- ? )
Florence Etta (DeMoss) Wake was born in January 1865 in Van Wert, Van Wert County, OH, the daughter of Charles W. and Eliza (Miner) DeMoss.
When Flora was age two, her father, a Civil War veteran who never truly recovered from his wartime ailments, passed away, leaving her fatherless. Her mother remarried again when Flora was age seven, to William Cornwell.
Shortly afterward, Flora and her mother, stepfather and siblings migrated westward to Nebraska, settling in Columbus, Platte County. When Flora was age 18, in 1883, her mother and stepfather divorced. Her mother later moved again, to Kinsley, Edwards County, KS, but Flora is not thought to have gone with her.
On March 25, 1885, when Flora was 20, she married Charles W. Wake (1859- ? ), the son of Charles and Emma (Shefford) Wake, and a native of Omaha. The ceremony was held in Columbus, and officiated by county judge John J. Sullivan.
The Wakes had three children -- Charles C. Wake, Dora A. Wake and Ethel P. Wake.
|
|
Bird's eye view of the west half of Newman's Grove, Nebraska |
When the federal census was taken in 1900, the Wakes lived in the village of Newman Grove, Madison County, NE.
In 1922, Flora was residing in St. Edward, Boone County, NE. That year, she wrote to the Pension Commissioner in Washington, DC. She said her maiden name had been DeMoss and that she wanted "any information you may have in your dept" about the Civil War service of her father, "Charles Warren DeMoss."
The fates of Flora, Charles and their children are not known.
Copyright © 2006, 2008 Mark A. Miner