Person:Jacob Flowers (1)

1830 Darlington Co., SC census for Jacob Flowers Jr.:
1 male under age 5 (son William)
1 male age 20-30 (Jacob)
1 female under age 5 (dau. Isabel)
1 female age 15-20 (wife Frances)

1840 Darlington Co., SC census for Jacob Flower:
2 males under age 5 (sons Irvin and Jacob)
2 males age 5-10 (sons William and Charles)
1 male age 30-40 (Jacob)
1 female under age 5 (dau. Frances)
1 female age 10-15 (dau. Isabel)
1 female age 20-30 (wife Frances)

1850 Dale Co., AL census; Southern Div.; page 233; HH 917/917:
Jacob Flowers, age 47, farmer, b. SC
Frances, age 36, b. SC
Isabel, age 21, b. SC
William, age 28, laborer, b. SC
Charles, age 16, laborer, b. SC
Irvin, age 14, b. SC
Jacob, age 12, b. SC
Frances, age 11, b. SC
Laney, age 10, b. SC
Benjamin, age 9, b. SC
Samuel, age 6, b. SC
Eli, age 4, b. SC

1860 Dale Co., AL census; Newton P.O.; page 645B; HH 998/998:
Jacob Flowers, age 53, farmer, b. SC
William, age 24, farm laborer, b. SC
Frances, age 22, b. SC
Laney, age 18, b. SC
Benjamin, age 16, farm laborer, b. SC
Samuel, age 14, b. SC
Eli, age 12, b. SC
Jefferson, age 10, b. AL

I could not find Jacob on the 1870 census

1880 Dale Co., AL census; Barnes X Roads & Rocky Head; page 890:
Jacob Flowers, age 77, farmer, b. SC, parents b. SC
Irenia, age 46, wife, b. GA
Mattie Bradshaw, age 20, step-dau., b. AL, father b. SC, mother b. GA
Jordan Flowers, age 10, son, works on farm, b. AL, father b. SC, mother b. GA

This is a letter written by Benjamin to his baby sister Elizabeth on 2 Oct. 1906 talking about the family:
Loughman, FL; Oct. 2 / 06
Mrs. Eliza Brashears
Dear Sister,
I was more than pleased to hear from you after so many years. You are my own sister. You where born before Ma left Father. You where about two years old when Mother left. John Flowers was your cousin [speaking of the John Flowers that married their mother after she returned to SC]. You must write me all about Mother let me know when she died and all about yourself.
Father died about five years ago, he was 99 years old, he married again after Mother left, about 12 years after Mother left, he had one child by his last wife name Jordan, he is grown now, he is your half brother, his mother was Mrs. Bradshaw. Father lived in Dale Co. till he died.
Isabel died in Mississippi.
Charley died some 25 years or 30 years ago.
Ervin he is still in Texas.
Jacob he died during the war.
William he died at Chattanooga during the war.
Frances is in Alabama living near Jefferson his PO is Ozark Alabama
Lanie died during the war.
Samuel died during the war.
Ely is living at Westville Holmes Co. Fla he is married and has two children girls.
I have two children girls both are married and have families. My wife Mary Jane Wiggs is still living. We are getting along very well considering we are getting old.
Be sure to write and let me know all about yourself and how you are getting along.
I remain your affectionate brother.
B. F. Flowers
Loughman, Polk Co., Florida
[This letter accounts for all of the children of Jacob Flowers.]

Letter from B. F. Fowers to his sister Elizabeth on 31 Oct. 1906:
Loughman, FL
Dear Sister,
With much plesure I seat myself to write you a few lines in reply to yours of Oct. 14th which came safe to hand and found us as well as common. Well sister when you and mother left Alabama the rest of us was in a half mile. Father moved about 2 days before mother left. You was 2 years old when you left Alabama and I have toated you in my arms lots of times. You said you could not make out Eli Post office. It is Westville, Fla. Eli had the Lagrip and it put out one of his eyes. He lives in West Fla and I live in south Fla. I can't tell you how far apart we live though a long ways. The last I heard of Ervin his post office was Saratoga Texas and Issabell left the same year you did. She had two girls the youngest one died in Alabama. They moved to Missippi but I do not know their post office. Issabell has been dead upwards of 40 years. She married John Renfro. Me and Eli has been in Florida 35 years. You wanted to know how we liked Fla. I can't say how Eli likes it but I like it better than any other country I was ever in. I have been in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, close to the line of Mississippi and Fla is the best poor mans country I ever was in. Sister are you living with your last husband. If you are I have nothing to say but if you are not take your children and come to Fla. Ancer this question at onsed. Jeff and Frances are both married. They both married Caraways. Jeff has got two girls and Francis has got 2 boys living. I do not know her post office but Jeffs post office is Ozark Ala RFD No. 2. Jacob Warr and Wash Warr died in Texas the last I heard from Alfred he lived in Alabama and was snake bit. Henry Warr moved to Texas and I haven't heard from him since. Well sister we have 160 acres of land here and some of it is poor and some of it is as good as there is any where in the world. The good land I believe will make $500 per acre in one year planted in the right kind of stuff properly cultivated. Theough we are getting old and not able to work much. If we could work like young folks we could make a fortune. And we have about 50 orange trees and half of them bearing. So you see we have fruit to eat and to sell. A person can sell any and everything they can raise. Though we do not raise cotton in this country. Well sister we raise our meat although the bear are pretty bad they catch lots of hogs but we kill a black bear now and then we not have extra cold weather. It was not cold enough to kill sweet potatoes vines on up land. I guess it gets pretty cold up there. Well I guess everything is cheap up there and I guess wages are small. Everything is high here meat 13 cents, flour $5 per bl., corn $1.60 per sack and so on but the wages are high.
Well sister I will close for this time hoping you are in the best of health and by saying write soon I am your brother as ever.
B. F. Flowers
Loughman Fla.