Person:Eliza Flagg (2)

Flagg Family Biography

Eliza Wait Flagg, fifth daughter and eighth child of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Cutting) Flagg, was born 11 August, 1802 in Richmond, Vermont, and died 4 March, 1841 in Madison Co., Ills. Little is known of her childhood except that she was fond of out-of-door life and occupations, and had a considerable liking for books. She seems to have had no school advantages beyond those of the common schools of her day. She was able, however, aided perhaps by her general reading, to teach a district school in Illinois about 1837 or 38.^[1]

She was married 3 February, 1825 to Oramel Bliss, of Essex, Vermont. They settled on a farm in the town of Jericho, Vermont, where the eldest child James was born. Within a year or two, however, they were back on the old farm on "Bliss Street," where the husband died 25 May, 1833. In the fall of 1836, the widow and three children moved to Illinois, where they occupied, for a time, a log cabin on her brother Gershom's farm in Madison Co. She married as a second husband, in May, 1838, Heman Liscum, of Vermont, and the augmented family took possession of a small farm near by, which her money had bought.^[1]

After her death, leaving no issue by her second husband, her three children were taken and reared by her brother Gershom Flagg. She was a woman of strong character and of more than ordinary amiability and intelligence.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Flagg, Norman Gershom. Family records of the descendants of Gershom Flagg (born 1730) of Lancaster, Massachusetts: with other genealogical records of the Flagg family descended from Thomas Flegg of Watertown, Mass., and including the Flegg lineage in England. (unknown: N.G. Flagg and L.C.S. Flagg, 1907)
   p. 73.
2. ↑ Omph Ghent, Madison, Illinois, in United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704).

   Heman Liscom, 2 males 10-15 [James, Willard Bliss], 1 male 25-30 [Heman], 1 female 5-10 [Ursula Bliss], 1 female 25-30 [Eliza]
   Gershron Flagg, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 2 males 20-25, 2 males 25-30, 1 male 30-35, 1 female 20-25, 2 females 30-35