Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Monroe County.

JOHN T. FLOWERS was born April 3, 1836, in Monroe County,Ky.  He is the 
eleventh of four sons and eleven daughters, fourteen of whom lived to be 
grown, born of Joel and Elizabeth (Branch) Flowers.  Joel Flowers was 
born in Buckingham County, Va.; was a farmer and soldier of 1812; 
immigrated to Monroe County,Ky., about 1834; purchased and improved a 
farm, where he lived till his death.  He was a son of Patterson Flowers, 
who was born and reared in Virginia, and of English and Irish origin.  
Mrs. Elizabeth Flowers was born and reared in Virginia, a daughter of 
Jonathan Branch, of Virginia, who was a farmer and shoemaker; came to 
Monroe County about 1834; was one of the patriots of 1812.  John T. 
Flowers was reared on a farm and received a common English education.  
He lived with his parents until 1854; when he went to California 
overland, and engaged in farming and mining for nineteen years in the 
Pacific States and Territories in which he has traveled extensively.  He 
returned to Monroe County, Ky., and engaged in farming.  He is the owner 
of eighty acres of good land, in a high state of cultivation.  In 
September, 1883, he bought one-third interest in a grist and saw-mill, 
at Flippin, to which he turned his entire attention.  He married in 
February, 1876, Nancy Caruth, of Allen County, and a daughter of Duke 
Caruth. Mr. Flowers and wife are members of the Baptist Church.  In 
politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for S. 
A. Douglas.

Branch Caruth Flowers
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Allen-KY Buckingham-VA CA 

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