Author: Christina
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Black Troops in the American Civil War
In Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era, John David Smith stated that approximately 10% of the soldiers in the Union Army were Black. Among the 10% was Rachel’s father, Harry F. Flowers. According to his enlistment record, H. Flowers was born in Putnam County, Florida around 1846. His occupation-farmer.…
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Research Note.
Researching the life of Rachel Flowers is more difficult than I initially thought. It is quite a headache, a good, yet frustrating headache. Searching for a person born at the turn of the twentieth century, a black person, a black woman, holds many limitations. I truly hope to find a family member, one of her…
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1920 Census: The Household of Harry Flowers
Year: 1920; Census Place: Monroe, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1557; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 29 In 1910, the Flowers children lived with their mother, a Mrs. N.J.P. Flowers, in Jacksonville, Florida. A decade later, Rachel, Vincent, Gladys, and Hilda resided with their father, Harry F. Flowers (H-Head of Household), in Monroe Township, Pennsylvania (outside…
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1910 Census: The Household of N.J.P. Flowers
This slide served as my research’s starting point. From Osorto’s findings, I knew four things: (1) Rachel Flowers relocated from Florida to Boiling Springs, PA with her father and three siblings in the early 1900s. (2) A Harry F. Flowers was her father. (3) Beginning in fall 1916, she attended Messiah Academy. (4) In…
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Rachel Flowers (1900-1988)
This slide was created by various faculty members sharing information found about Rachel Flowers, the first African American student to attend my college.
Diary of a Historian 