Edward Gibson Flournoy ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

At the time of the 1910 census, Edward was a guard in a convict camp in Colorado County, Texas. His brother Lee cooked for the camp and there were 3 convicts in their charge who worked on the public roads. At the time of the 1920 census, Edward was a stockman working with his father on the Mordecai Flournoy land in Rock Island, Colorado County, Texas.

Flournoy, Edward Gibson
Ed Flournoy Dies Suddenly At Rock Island

Funeral services for Edward Gibson Flournoy, 58, were held at the Baptist church in Rock Island at 5 p.m. Monday with interment in the Rock Island [Myrtle] cemetery , the Rev. J. K. Ridgway of the Baptist church of Columbus officiating. Columbus Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Flournoy, who died of a heart attack at his Rock Island home at noon Sunday, was born April 22, 1886, near Weimar, the oldest son of J. T. and Annie Flournoy. He was a stockman and had spent the greater part of his life in Colorado county. He had never married.

He is survived by his stepmother, Mrs, Etta Flournoy; one sister, Mrs. Gertrude Herndon of Highland, and five brothers, Lee of Lake Charles, La.; Ben, Goose Creek; Jim, Wharton, Royce, U. S. Army, India, and Mike, U. S. Army Italy.

Pallbearers were Harvey Lee, Bill Branch, Paul White, Oscar Baker, J. G. Jenkins and Jack Mayes.

Among out-of-town people attending the funeral were Lee Flournoy, Lake Charles, La., Ben Flournoy and family and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Diehl and daughter, Goose Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Henderson, Highlands; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Flournoy and Sheriff "Buck" Lane, Wharton; Milton,Henry, W. K. Wall, Paul White, Dewey Gentry, Mrs. Jack Bridson and Mrs. Grodhouse, Houston.

Colorado County Citizen, April 12, 1945.