Brief Life History of Flora Elaine
When Flora Elaine Evans was born on 23 July 1899, in Texas, United States, her father, William Lee Andrew Evans, was 42 and her mother, Rachel Elizabeth Walls, was 32. She married Hollie Henry Cowger on 22 January 1918, in Logan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Paradise Township, Payne, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Ripley, Payne, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 2 May 1976, in Grand Prairie, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Irving, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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- Flora Evans in household of Wm L Evans, "United States Census, 1900"
- Flora Evans, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Flora Etta Lane, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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