Wolney is pronounced "Volney". Wolney did not like his name and usually went by "V.P.". He enrolled in Hartsville University in 1858, but did not stay. He may have briefly considered the United Brethren ministry.

(Revised 08/27/06,William Samuel Boggess)

WOLNEY PULASKI FLORA, A KANSAS AND COLORADO PIONEER

Amanda G Lentz (1810PA-1862IN) and the Reverend John FLORA (1800GER-1876IN) started their family in Harrison County, Indiana. Results were seven known children born; Josephine F, (1833IN-1915KS), Wolney Pulaski, (1834IN-1909KS), Sarah Catharine, (1836IN-1877KS), Daniel Rice Boon, (1838IN-1908CO). Margaret Ann, (1841IN-1926MO), Maryetta Isebell (1843IN-184xIN) (assumed, died BEF 1850), and lastly John Andrew (1845IN-1934KS).
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WOLNEY PULASKI FLORA (1834IN-1909KS), also known as "V.P.", was born just before Christmas, Monday, 22 December 1834 in Harrison County, Indiana to John and Amanda FLORA, married Christmas Day 1856 (Book G; Page 101), obtained at Dublin, Wayne county, Indiana, for Ellinor Hollingsworth (1839IN-1904CO) first known child of William and Martha Hollingsworth. V P is of record signing a note 12 November 1856 and attending Hartsville University in 1858 in Bartholomew county but he's found in census of Wayne County. Indiana, Dublin Township, Dublin P.O., 13 June 1860 in her parents household with 2 year old daughter Wilhelmina (Wilma) Isidora (1857IN-1937KS) listed "Volny Flay", removing to Kansas Territory that Fall following its worst summer drought ever in 1860. Daughter Frances Florance (1861KS-1899CO) was born. V P served the Kansas State Militia in1864. V P's brothers are in his household in July 1865 state census but daughter Maggie May 1865KS-1947WV) was not yet born. In 1870 Federal census they are next to her brother's family on Dow creek, one tributary west of Taylor creek, in Fremont Township, Lyon county. 1875 state census has them in Liberty Township, Montgomery County without Florance listed. Wilhelmina Isidora married Henry Wilford Conrad (1845IN-1928KS), (Notes: Came to Kansas in 1868. He was one of the first four settlers of Montgomery County, Kansas. Source material: HANBOOK(sic) OF THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE, 1901. Topeka, Kan. : Crane & Co,1900.), a friend of Daniel Rice Boon FLORA (1838IN-1908CO), and John A FLORA (1845IN-1934KS), also a1870 neighbor. V P moved family to Hinsdale County, Colorado Territory http://sangres.com/places/lakecity.htm, separated 1887, divorced 1895 and remarried 1901. Ellenor died 11 August 1904 in Portland, Ouray County, Colorado and buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Ouray County, Colorado as Elleanor. V P returned to Kansas and died 28 April 1909 at daughter's home in Montgomery County, buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, in Independence, Kansas.

Wolney's in-laws, William and Martha (Cooney) Hollingsworth family roots back eight generations to County Armagh, Ireland, found in Cutler's, 1883, History of Kansas, http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/lyon/lyon-co-p22.html and Emporia Democrat front page, column 5, 3 October 1888 issue.

Wolney and Ellinor's first daughter was Wilhelmina (Wilma) Isidora, born (obituary said Bartholomew County, Indiana) 24 October 1857, possibly when father attended Hartsville University in Bartholomew county, Indiana. V P moved family, with his in-laws, Fall of 1860 to Breckenridge County, Kansas Territory. Its population had peaked at 3,500 before many left following summer's drought, and prior to 1862 Homestead Act, at Fremont township (created 1857), Breckenridge (6 February 1862, became Lyon) County, Kansas Territory (statehood 29 January 1861). Daughter, Frances Florance was born 27 July1861.

CIVIL WAR: V P is of record enlisting 25 April 1864 at Emporia, Kansas (town created 1858, prohibiting gambling and liquor) at age 29, with Captain Thomas C. Hill (Later Americus Cemetery Board) in Company F, 11th Regiment Kansas State Militia under Colonel A J Mitchell (of Agnes City Township), as is brother John Andrew, on 14 October, both on "PAY ROLL" 14 October to 16 November 1864. Both issued a horse and rigging, duty for 30 days. They were involved with defeat of Gen Sterling Price's Missouri and Kansas campaign. Active duty was 9 October to 29 October 1864, between Coldwater Grove, Miami County and Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas. Attached to Colonel Moonlight at Coldwater Grove with assignment to go to Fort Scott, generally along present day Highway #7 from Paola where some State Militia troops assembled (under Martial Law) under Colonel Fishback. They engaged General Price's 12-mile caravan saving Mound City 6:00 am, 25 October 1864 while "Mine Creek" engagement occurred later,11:30 am, 25 October 1864 in Linn County, Kansas. They continued advancing, again engaged at 2:30 pm at Little Osage River, near Fort Lincoln, with Price continuing out of state at Deerfield, Missouri, 10:30 pm, then Price on a "56 mile march" to my home town Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri (which earlier had been burnt to the ground) at Spring River for forage. No pension was found. (SOURCE. Kansas State Historical Society, microfilm reel # 817, p 89, 11th KSM, Muster Rolls, Records of KS Adj Gen. & "Mine Creek" site manager; Arnold Schofield)

Daniel Rice Boon, on Army leave, and John Andrew FLORA are listed in V P's household in 1865 state census. V P was county road supervisor in 1865 and their daughter Maggie May was born 27 Ocotober 1865. Family, less the brothers, appear on ninth Federal Census, 1870, for Fremont township, Lyon County, Kansas, with population growth to 8,014 (year 2000, 35,925) -- household on Dow creek was next to Ellinor's 27 year old brother, Benjamin Franklin Hollingsworth (1842IN-1917) and family. Frank and wife Margaret (Maggie) L (Spencer) (1847PA-1935), married 2 February 1868, Lyon county, found living in Laramie County, Wyoming in1908, but buried in Section 2B, Row 5, Lot 10 Maple Wood, Memorial Lawn Cemetery, back at Emporia, he 1917, she in 1935.

Kansas census of 1875 have V P, Ellen, WH and Maggie in dwelling #131, 100-miles southerly at Liberty township, Montgomery county, with Florence Flora being cited as a School Dist. #22 honor student (reported in the Emporia News, June 4, 1875, p. 3, col. 4), living with grandparents in Lyon county.

Eighteen year old daughter Wilhelmina (Wilma) and 27 year old Henry Wilford Conrad (1845IN-1928KS), were married 28 November 1875 by J H Vancleave, in her parents home. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/c3/conrad_henry_w.html
tenth child of George and Nancy (Wiseman) Conrad, with sixth child, Jacob Hendrix Conrad, http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/montgomery/montgomery-co-p17.html dwelling next to John A Flora in 1870. They lived a very active life in Montgomery County, Kansas, he one of earliest settlers, a state representative, state senator, postmaster, county clerk, having three daughters and four grandchildren. Maud (January 1877) married William Hamilton in 1897 with at least one son Earl. Mary F. (February 1879) married local grocer Walter Salathiel, with at least a daughter Wilma (Wilhelmina) and Opal M. (September1886) married Guy White.

"V P" and Ellinor followed Daniel, as pioneers, into the territory of Colorado, with its seventeen counties formed in 1861, to Lake City, Hinsdale county, Colorado Territory where gold and silver had been discovered. Hinsdale county http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/CO/Hinsdale/ was formed in1874, from Conejos, Costilla and Lake counties. Lake City's elevation is 8,671, 8,000 higher than Verdigris River in Montgomery, county with mountains over 14,000, town formed when a road crew discovered gold nearby http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohinsda/. State of Colorado was created 1 August 1876 under President Grant as our 38th state.

Harriette Flora (Hopkins) Anglea, g.granddaugher of John A FLORA, raised in Pueblo, Colorado, wrote: (01/06/06): "That [Lake City] was my Dad's [Dr Guy H Hopkins] favorite fishing place and we went there every summer for at least a week and usually two weeks. My brother [Dr William G Hopkins] learned to fish there. And Mother [Harriette Pearl (FLORA) Hopkins] and I learned to picnic on the banks of the different rivers there. One or two summers we actually had a cabin up on the lake. but Daddy really preferred stream fishing.

"He had a lot of patients from over there and they always talked fishing to him, so when we went over we would meet some of them down town.

"It use to be a beautiful mining town-- that petered out and all the lovely homes that had been built were bought up by wealthy Texans who came up to get away from the heat down there. It was at that time (about the 30's and 40's) just a very small tourist town."

Grant E Houston, President; Hinsdale County Historical Society, wrote: (12/30/05): "Both families [Flora & Borie] are well known here in Lake City and were among the real pioneers of our region, particularly up around Capitol City and Rose's Cabin, both of which are now ghost towns. Mrs. Flora was also extensively interested at various times in Lake City hotels and boarding houses, including the boarding house of the Ute-Ulay Mine on Henson Creek. Her Second Street boarding house between Gunnison and Silver Streets still exists, although it has been moved about a block from its original location."

Grant followed up by mailing some thirty excerpts of newspaper articles, including obituaries and V P & Eleanor's re-marriage in 1901 after fourteen years separation and about six years divorced, plus Ouray county Cemetery information of Elinor H and D R B's family. received 7 January 2006.

16 y/o Frances Florance (1861KS-1899CO) wed William H Borie (1840MD-1896CO) 13 December 1877, first known born was Anna Stasha (1880CO-1924CO) who married Jerome Emil Milly (1874-1828CO) with at least one daughter Florance Mash who met with Jim Duggan in 1960's, Then Bessie (1883CO-1883CO), then James (1885CO-1887CO0 last was Willie W (1888CO-1904CO) a popular boy of 16, died six months before his grandmother.

Wolney was elected street superintendent (1865 county road supervisor in Lyon county, Kansas) at first election of new Capitol City, Hinsdale County, 7 April1879 http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/cohinsdale.html. This is near Rose's Cabin where Boon FLORA once lived before moving in 1882 to Ouray county.

They both are in 1880 census at Hinsdale County, Capitol, Colorado, he "working in silver mines" She on 14 May 1881 was appointed postmistress of Capitol City. Granddaughter Bessie Borie died 27 July1883. October 1884 V P and Ellinor leased The Public House, fixing it up and announced its re-opening 22 November 1884.

Jim Duggan, g,g,grandson of Wolney wrote: (8/05/05): "Wolney's family broke up and Elinor divorced him. My gg-mother Maggie May Flora married James Duggan in Lake City in 1882. He was a slick gambler, who parlayed his winnings first into ownership of a saloon, then into a horse ranch at Ridgway, Colorado. My grandfather William Edgar Duggan was born in 1885 in Red Mountain City (now a ghost town), Colorado. http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/coouray.html

"Wolney came to Lake City at least twice to persuade Elinor to turn back, but she fed him (I have photo) and sent him away. Wolney was probably instrumental in getting her a Post Office location in Portland, Colorado (a few blocks from Ridgway). She had a "hotel" there. Billed as a rooming house for women, I later learned it was a bordello. I Think her son-in-law Henry Conrad arranged for the Post Office there to be formalized."

16 y/o daughter Maggie May (1865KS-1947WV) married James Joseph Duggan (1845-1908CO) 4 May 1882 had five known children, three to adulthood. William Edgar, August 1885 (Jim Duggan's grandfather), Goldie E, November 1888, and James Joseph February 1897. Maggie, on 1910, married old friend Edward Healy, they lived in California having son John in1911. She died at son John's home in West Virginia in 1947, given a "High Mass" with burial in Sunnyside cemetery, Long Beach, California.

The split-up appears to have occurred during/before she operated a boarding house at Ute-Ulay mine 21 August 1886. She is noted 1 October 1887 giving up at Ute mine, moving next to the Silver World newspaper office. 17 March 1888 she runs an advertisement in Silver World of opening for "Mrs E H FLORA'S" Boarding House on second street, between Silver St and Gunnison Avenue (structure remains, moved about a block away), finding it to small, she had within a week moved to American House and was fixing it up. In 1889 she advertised 12 June the American House then transfers interest to a Mr Davis 17 August. July 1890 she is off to Salt Lake City, then to Denver to make a new home. May 1894 she visits and may be when she divorced V P, then April 1896, after death of son-in-law, William H Borie, February 1896, she bought the Brockett residence on north Silver Street moving her daughter and kids in with her. June 1897 article says; H A Avery is adding on to house once owned by Mr E H Flora, who has moved daughter and grand kids, Miss Anna & Master Willie to Ouray. October 1899 her 38 y/o daughter Frances Florance Borie dies, noted as niece of Boon FLORA. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6689/otowns.html

1900 census lists Wolney P boarding with "Miller" as "farm laborer" "married 44 years"(?) in Gunnison county, Colorado, Precinct 17 and "Elinor", Ouray county, Portland Village (four miles north of Ouray, near Cedar Hill cemetery) "divorced", "married 38 years", raising deceased daughter's (Frances Borie), kids in dwelling #34, daughter Maggie May Duggan (Jim Duggan's g,grandmother) in #25 and uncle D.R.B. FLORA in #19 at Portland, Ouray county, Colorado. 11 May 1901, V P and "Ellener", both of Portland, Ouray county, with Rev Jos Lower officiating re-marry. Popular 16 y/o Willie Borie's dies February1904.

"Ellenor" died 3:30 am, Thursday, 11 August 1904, Portland, Ouray County, Colorado, buried as "Elleanor" in Cedar Hill cemetery, Ouray county, Colorado. Wolney returned to Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas where he died Saturday, 28 April1909, at daughter Wilhelmina (Wilma) Isidora (Flora) Conrad's home, burial at Mount Hope cemetery.

Anna Stasha Borie, granddaughter raised by Ellinor, and husband Jerome Emil Milly are also buried at Cedar Hill cemetery, other Borie children, father and possibly mother, buried at City cemetery, Lake City.

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FLORA, " V P", Volney Pulaski December 22, 1834 - April 28, 1909

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Independence Daily Reporter, Independence Kansas, Wednesday April 28, 1909,

V. T. FLORA DIED THIS MORNING
WAS THE FATHER OF MRS. HENRY CONRAD

Came Here Years Ago [1875] and Spent Most of His Life In This County

V T Flora, the father of Mrs Henry Conrad, died this morning at about five o'clock at home of his daughter on South Second street. Mr Flora has been alling for some time, but yesterday morning the family found him unconscious in bed and he never rallied, passing away early this morning. The primary cause of his death was kidney trouble from which he had been suffering for sometime.

Deceased was 74 years of age and coming to Montgomery county in the early days from Indiana and stayed here until several years ago [1875/6] when he went to Colorado to live, returning here in 1905 to make his home with daughter, Mrs Conrad. Mrs Flora has been dead a number of years [5] and he has made his home with his children for some time past.

Besides Mrs Conrad, deceased has another daughter, Mrs Duggan, who lives in Mont Rose, Col. Two sisters and one brother also survive him.



One sister [Josephine] lives in Ottumwa [Olathe, 1900], Kan, and one [Margaret] in Missouri, and the brother [John A], father of C M Flora of this city, in Oswego.

The funeral arrangements have not been completed, but will be announced later.

• Married: 25 DEC 1856 in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana ^{10 11}
• Married: 11 MAY 1901 in Ouray County, Colorado ^{10 12}
• Divorced: 1895 in Colorado ¹⁰

1. Wilhelmina Isidora Flora b: 24 OCT 1857 in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana
2. Frances Florance Flora b: 27 JUL 1861 in Fremont, Lyon County, Kansas
3. Maggie Mae (May) Flora b: 27 OCT 1865 in Fremont, Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas

1. Abbrev: Will of Wolney Pulaski Flora; filed in Independenc
   Title: Will of Wolney Pulaski Flora; filed in Independence, MontgomeryCounty, KS. 28 April 1909.S. 28 April 1909.S. 28 April 1909.
   Page: Filed in Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, 28 April, 1909.
2. Abbrev: Edward Duggan
   Title: Edward Duggan, Data of Duggan/Flora lines came from Edward Duggan, James "Uncle Joe"Duggan, Harry Flora and Florance Mash.s "Uncle Joe"Duggan, Harry Flora and Florance Mash.s "Uncle Joe"Duggan, Harry Flora and Florance Mash.
3. Abbrev: Imported GEDCOM file 18 April 2006
   Title: Jim Duggan, GEDCOM file imported on 18 Apr 2006.
4. Abbrev: James R. Duggan
   Title: James R. Duggan, family genealogist
   Quality: 2
5. Abbrev: Flora Family Tree
   Title: Flora Family Tree, self published by William S. Boggess, Naples, Florida (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net).
   Quality: 2
6. Abbrev: William Samuel Boggess (billboggess@webtv.net), Flora and Boggess families
   Title: Hough & Martin family material and pictures from family, gathered and passed down through the years, in possession of and shared by Jane Hough, Hough.j@hotmail.com. David and Sarah Boggess' family information provided by Ree Jarrett and David Houchin of Clarksburg.
   
   
   Quality: 2
7. Abbrev: Census Record
   Title: Census Record
   Page: 1850 Census: Harrison County, Indiana, e.d. 45, page 445, 4 October
8. Abbrev: Census Record
   Title: Census Record
   Page: 1880 census: Capitol, Hinsdale County, Colorado, e.d. 58, page 29, lines 39-41, D 478, F 478, 21-22 June 1880
9. Abbrev: Census Record
   Title: Census Record
   Page: 1870 Census: Fremont, Lyon County, Kansas, Page 8-9, lines 39-40 and 1-3, D 61, F 62, 14 July
10. Abbrev: Flora Family Tree
    Title: Flora Family Tree, self published by William S. Boggess, Naples, Florida (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net).
11. Abbrev: Wayne County, Indiana marriage records
    Title: Wayne County, Indiana marriage records
    Text: Eleanor Hollingsworth married Volney P Flora on 1856-12-25. (Book G ; Page 101)
12. Abbrev: William Samuel Boggess (billboggess@webtv.net), Flora and Boggess families
    Title: Hough & Martin family material and pictures from family, gathered and passed down through the years, in possession of and shared by Jane Hough, Hough.j@hotmail.com. David and Sarah Boggess' family information provided by Ree Jarrett and David Houchin of Clarksburg.
    
    
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