Florence Alpha MIERS ¹

   Other names for Florence were Mrs. Florence Alpha JOHNSON, Mrs. William Horace JOHNSON, Miss Pink MIERS and Mrs. Florence Alpha UNDERWOOD.

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  General Notes:

Florence's brother, James Ancil, signed for her when she got married as
she was only 16.

Her middle name was known as Alpha by her great granddaughter, Janice
Orth. Lucille's family have it hand written as Alverette. Janice had
not heard that the relatives in Iowa called Florence "Pink".

Janice has a writing that gives Florence's birth year as 1871. Lucille
Webster's records show her as born in 1870: The family Bible is hard to
read but looks like 1870. Her marriage license records her as 16 in
March. She would be born in 1870 to be 17 in December of 1887. The 1880
census shows her as nine but was written in the summer of 1880 and
Florence would have been 10 in December 1880.

Jacob Creager had no children of his own or they died young, so on Nov.
17, 1887, his heirs were from his sister's, Lydia Miers, children. Those
heirs are all grand-nephews and nieces of Jacob: (reference 2):
10. Florence A. Johnson, age 17.

References: (1) Marriage Record, Marion County, Iowa, Book 6, page 25,
page 126 in the reference guide. The marriage certificate was signed by
Wm Craig, Minister Gospel. Her brother, James Myres (Florence's last name
is also spelled Myres on the Marriage records), was the person giving the
affidavit of her being of sound contracting mind and unmarried. (2)
Geneva, New York, newspaper article: A citation to appear in Surrogate's
Court in the Village of Geneva, New York, On Nov. 17, 1887, for the
probate of the last will and testament of Jacob Creager of Seneca,
Ontario County, NY. In the article, Jacob's heirs are listed. (3) 1880
federal census for Jasper Township, Adams County, Iowa, for Lydia and
Isaac Miers'/Myers' son Isaac and Hannah Miers and their family, records
that Isaac, the father who had lived in New York, was born in New Jersey
and his wife Lydia was born in Maryland. (4) Telecons between Lucille
Miers Webster and Janice Orth who descended from Lucille's grandfather
Joseph Freeman Miers' sister Florence. February 9 and 26, 2002. (5) Old
photo of Lucille's grandfather's sister Florence, her husband, and family
with names written on the back of the photo, given to Lucille Miers
Webster by Janice (Skinner) Orth on February 12, 2002.

Florence married William Horace JOHNSON on 5 Mar 1887 in Knoxville, Marion, Iowa, USA. (William Horace JOHNSON was born on 14 Feb 1865 and died in 1936.)

Florence next married UNDERWOOD after 1903.