Notes for Bryant 'Fate' Lafayette Flowers
1870 District 11, Dyer Station PO, Gibson Co, Tennessee 5 August 1870, p406a:
#54/54 Flowers L.T. 31 w m farmer $-/300 Tn - citizen
Sarah 25 f w keeping house Tn - can't read/write
Louis 1 m w at home Tn
1880 Possum Pond, Civil District 24, Gibson Co, Tennessee 24 June 1880, ed41, p375c:
#136/136 Flowers Brient w m 42 md farmer Tn NC Tn
Sallie w f 37 wife md keeping house Tn NC Tn
Ella w f 5 dau single Tn Tn Tn
Cooper w m 3 son single Tn Tn Tn
Atlas w m 2 son single Tn Tn Tn
1900 Neboville, South part of 8th Civil District, Gibson Co, Tennessee 12 June 1900, ed40, p170b:
#111/112 Flowers [P/B?] L. head w m _?_ 1837 63 md 30 yrs Tn Tn Tn
Sarah wife w f May 1852 45 md 30 yrs 15? born/? living Tn Tn Tn
Bryant C. son w m Oct 1876 23 single Tn Tn Tn
Lormine [Lornnie?] dau f w Feb 1885 15 single Tn Tn Tn
Claud son w m Jun 1887 12 single Tn Tn Tn
Maude B. dau w f Feb 1890 10 single Tn Tn Tn
Krutis [Kristis?] dau f w May 1892 8 single Tn Tn Tn
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Buried: Yorkville Cemetery, Gibson Co, Tennessee
Lafayette Flowers
b. 1838
d. 1901
[Cemetery Records of Northern Gibson County, Tennessee, Vol II, by Emily B. Walker, pub 1985, p664. courtesy of Dottie Miller, email, 20 Aug 2005]
Flowers researcher - Richard R. Flowers, is compiling a book on the Flowers Families of West Tennessee.
Trenton Herald-Democrat, Vol. 17
Trenton, Gibson County, Tenn
Aug. 9, 1901 Number 26 (Page 4, bottom of column 2 and top of column 3)
(Emily B. Walker transcribed the article because the copy was too poor to read)
One of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in Gibson County occurred last Thursday afternoon when Charles Bittick, about 30 years of age, murdered Mr. Layette Flowers, an aged and respected citizen of the Neboville neighborhood, in the 8th district of this county. Mr. Flowers died two days after the terrible beating and there has been considerable excitement in that vicinity because of the unfortunate affair and threats of lynching have been indulged in. Bittick was a son-in-law of Flowers, but had been separated from his wife for some time, and she was making her home with her father. Bittick had spent several years in Arkansas, but has been making his home in Dyer County for the past year or two. A day or two before the murder he had returned to the neighborhood of his crime. His wife heard of the presence in the neighborhood and, fearing him, had left home. The man went to the Flowers home and demanded to know
where his wife was. This information being refused him, he assaulted Mr. Flowers with the above result. Not satisfied with this, he also assaulted Mrs. Flowers and a boy with a buggy whip. The boy ran to avoid the beating and Bittick shot at him as he ran. Bittick then fled to Dyer County and was arrested in Dyersburg. The constable who had him in charge, fearing that his friends would attempt to release him, telephoned Sheriff Morgan, and as that official was out of town, officers Jim Hall and Obe Green went to the constable's rescue and assisted in landing him in jail. Bittick's brother was also arrested and lodged in jail on the charge of carrying a pistol, but he was later released on bond. Bittick is said to have murdered a man in Arkansas, but by some means escaped punishment for the crime, after having been twice sentenced to the penitentiary.
(Note: This issue of newspaper was published on a Friday. If Mr. Flowers had been beaten "Last Thursday afternoon" (August 1st) and "Died two days" later, he would have died on Saturday, August 3rd, 1901)
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