Person:Charles Flowers (1)

1870 Hardin Co., TX census; Pct. 4; page 33; HH 259/259:
Chas. Flowers, age 33, farmer, b. SC
Canzida, age 31, keeping house, b. AL
Green, age 12, b. AL
Nancy, age 10, b. TX
C. M., age 8, b. TX
W. H., age 5, b. TX
Rufus, age 4, b. TX
Jeff, age 2, b. TX, blind

1880 Hardin Co., TX census; E.D. 30; page 429B; HH 42/47:
Kanzada Flowers, age 45, farming, b. AL, father b. AL, mother b. SC
Carley M., son, age 16, farmer, b. TX, father b. SC, mother b. AL
William, son, age 14, farmer, b. TX
Simial?, son, age 12, b. TX (this should be Rufus)
Jefferson, son, age 10, blind, b. TX
Armender F., dau., age 8, blind, b. TX
Lindella, dau., age 5, b. TX
Samuel, son, age 3, b. TX

From Public Land Claim records:
The State of Texas}
County of Hardin}
Before me, the undersigned, District Clerk, in and for the county aforesaid, this day came and personally appeared Charles Flowers a resident of said county, who being by me duly sworn, declares that he is a bona fide settler upon one hundred & sixty acres of vacant public land, situated in said county, and surveyed for Charles Flowers on 21 day of February 1873 by J. N. Dark surveyor of said county; that he has occupied and improved the same as a homestead for the period of three consecutive years, beginning on the first day of January 1870, that he is the head of a family and that he makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a title to the same for a homestead under an act supplimentary to "an act for the benefit of actual occupants of the public lands," approved May 26, 1873, and that he has not a homestead other than the above.
And also at the same time came and personally appeared W. A. Brackin and A. J. Williams two credible resident citizens of said county, to me well known, who being duly sworn, depose and say that Charles Flowers the person first above named in this affidavit has actually settled upon and cultivated as a homestead the land surveyed for him on the 4th day of February 1873 by the surveyor aforesaid, for the period of three years, and they nor either of them have any interest in the said land.
Charles (his x mark) Flowers
W. A. Brackin
A. J. Williams
Sworn to and sbuscribed before me, and I hereby certify that W. A. Brackin and A. J. Williams are credible and trustworthy citizens of said county.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, this the 20th Mar. 1875.
John J. Dollard
Clerk Dist. Court, Hardin County

Sale of the above 160 acres of land by Canzada, widow of Charles Flowers:
The State of Texas}
County of Hardin}
Whereas I am the surviving wife of Charles Flowers who departed this life in the month of August A.D. 1879 and whereas in the year A.D. 1861 the said Charles and myself (I then also being his wife) settled as pre-emptors on the tract of land containing 160 acres and situated in said Hardin County upon which I now reside and have resided continuously since said year A.D. 1861 having so resided upon and occupied said tract since the death of my husband as well as before and whereas several minor children of my said husband and myself survived him and three of said children are minors still and dependent upon myself for their suport and maintenance and without any means or property of their own and whereas on the first day of September A.D. 1888 a patent (No. 206 Vol. 21) was issued by the State of Texas to and in the name of my said deceased husband his heirs or assigns for said one hundred and sixty acres of land which in said patent is described as follows, towit: In Hardin County Texas and known as survy No. 321 on the waters of Cypress Creek a tributary of the Naches River and about 7 miles North 70 degrees West of the town of Hardin made by virtue of the affidavit of said Charles Flowers made before the Clerk of the District Court of said Hardin County (on the 20th day of March A.D. 1875) under an act for the benefit of actual occupants of the Public Land approved May 26th, 1873 -- Beginning on the S line of section No. 244 made by virtue of Certificate No. 819 issued to the Texas Central Railway Company at a point thereone which 589 East of the SW Cor. of said Section No. 244 a stake for Cor. from which a white bay 8 in dia brs. N 22 degrees, E. 2 varas distant and a white bay 8 inches in dia bears North 86 degrees West 1 vara distant. Thence south 950 vrs. to a Stake for Corner, thence East 950 varas to a stake for Corner, thence North 950 varas to a stake for corner on the South line of said Section No. 244, thence West with the south line of said Section 244 950 varas to the place of beginning and whereas the firm of Olive & Sternenberg Composed of S. C. Olive and J. A. Sternenberg has paid to me in money the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for said tract of 160 acres of land. Therefore be it known that for and in consideration of said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars I Candaza Flowers widow as aforesaid of said Charles Flowers deceased have bargained sold and conveyed and by these presents do bargain sell and convey unto said Olive & Sternenberg said 160 acres of land together with all the rights privileges and immunities thereunto belonging or in anywise incident or appertaining for them the said Olive & Sternenberg their heirs or assigns to have and to hold forever, and I hereby warrant and will forever defend unto them their heirs or assigns the title thereto against myself my heirs executors and administrators and all other persons, reserving however the buildings on said 160 acres of land and the right to remove them. Given under my hand on the 12th day of December A.D. 1889.
Candaza (her x mark) Flowers
Attest:
P. A. Work
W. L. Brackin

Canzada filed for a widows pension for the service of Charles during the Civil War and it was approved on 25 Sept. 1899. In the application Canzada doesn't seem to be sure of the date of her marriage to Charles, she writes it as 20 Mar. 1854 or 1855. She filed this application in Angelina Co. on 4 Jul. 1899 and states that she had only been living in this county for 2 weeks and her age is 63. She says she is not able to engage in any occupation and that her health is bad. She gives the date of death for Charles as 11 Aug. 1879. She also tells us that Charles served in Co. D of Spates Bttn. and he served for 3 years. Spates Bttn. was part of the 11 TX Vol or 21 TX inf. Witnesses to her application were W. B. Free and John N. Coward.

I have not been able to find Charles Flowers in the 1860 census. He should have been married to Canzada with at least one child - M. G. b. 1857. Here's the mystery though - Canzada is enumerated with her father Wm. A. Brackin in the 1860 Hardin Co., TX census and she is not listed as Flowers but Brackin and there are none of her children with her. Where were Charles and Major? Canzady is living with her son, M. G. Flowers, in the 1900 census.