Flora Neave Keithley

b. 3 December 1863, d. 12 May 1958
  • Flora Neave Keithley was born on 3 December 1863 in Saline County, Missouri.
  • Jacob Carter Keithley and Jane Neave Vawter appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Elmwood Township, Saline County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Flora Neave Keithley, Irving W. Keithley, Herbert R. Keithley, Ella R. Keithley and George Eugene Keithley. Also in the household were two young farmers, James Barr and Franklin Gish.
  • Jacob Carter Keithley and Jane Neave Vawter appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Salt Springs, Saline County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Flora Neave Keithley, Irving W. Keithley, Herbert R. Keithley, Ella R. Keithley, George Eugene Keithley and Roland Hill Keithley.
  • The following appeared on 8 January 1898 in The San Diago Union: Flora Keithley was a Santa Fe passenger today going to Shackleford, Mo.
  • The following appeared on 28 March 1899 in The Evening Tribune: Miss Flora Keithley arrived yesterday from the east to join her brother, Rev. George E. Keithley of Coronado.
  • Jacob Carter Keithley and Jane Neave Vawter appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Elmwood Township, Saline County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Flora Neave Keithley, George Eugene Keithley and Roland Hill Keithley. Also boarding in the household was one young male farm laborer.
  • Flora Neave Keithley appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in New York City, New York, at 182nd Street & Northern Avenue employed as a governess in the household of handkerchief manufacturer James Hardin.
  • Jacob Carter Keithley and Jane Neave Vawter appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Elmwood, Saline County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Flora Neave Keithley, Irving W. Keithley.
  • Jacob Carter Keithley appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Elmwood Township, Saline County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Flora Neave Keithley, Irving W. Keithley.
  • Flora Neave Keithley appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in El Paso, Texas, at 920 North Raynor. In 1935, she was living in Douglas County, Illinois.
  • At the time of her death, her usual residence was in El Paso, Texas, at 700 Blacker Street.
  • Flora Neave Keithley died on 12 May 1958 at age 94 in El Paso, Texas, at El Paso Nursing Home never having married. . Her death was officially witnessed by Frances Buchanan.
  • The following appeared on 12 May 1958 in the El Paso Herald-Post: Miss Flora N. Keithley of 700 East Blacker died today in a hospital. She was 94.
         Miss Keithley was born in Saline County, Mo., in 1863 and was educated at Lindenwood College. She moved here in 1934.
         She is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Jack Guynes of El Paso and Mrs. Keith Ferguson of La Jolla, Calif; two nephews, C. P. Buchanan of Los Alamos and Ralph T. Keithley of Chula Vista, Calif; and two grand-nieces. Her body will be sent by Harding and Orr to Marshall, Mo., for funeral services Wednesday.
  • She was interred at Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Saline County, Missouri.
  • Last Edited: 8 Aug 2015