Chauncey Sawyer Flowers, I

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• Physical Description: DraftBoard: 2; EyeColor: Brown; HairColor: Black; Height: 6 Ft 2; PhysicalBuild: Medium
• Associate: Samuel H Lawyer
• Race: Black
• Veteran: WWI: 351st Heavy Artillery
• Name: Chauncey Floisers
• Name: Chauncey S Flowers
• Name: Chauncey S. Flowers
• Name: Chauncy Sawyer Flowers
• Name: Chauney Sawey Flowers
• Residence: 1910, Ortega, Duval, Florida, USA; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Son
• Military Draft: 1917, 504 Brown St;reet, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Age: 22; MaritalStatus: Single
• Military: 1918; 351st Field Artillery on the deck.
• Military: 1919, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
• Newspaper Clipping: 21 Mar 1921, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Struck With Salt Shaker 21 Mar 1921
• Newspaper Clipping: 5 May 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; SHOOTS AND KILLS MAN AT HOTEL BAR Headline_Sunday Courier_5 May 1929
• Newspaper Clipping: 6 May 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Kills Friend As They Argue Over Cards_6 May 1929
• Criminal: 14 May 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Chauncey Flowers Found to Have Killed Friend in Self-Defense in Coroner\'s Inquest_14 May 1929
• Newspaper Clipping: 14 May 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Flowers Held in Lawyer Slaying_14 May 1929
• Criminal: 4 Jun 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Chauncey Flowers Trial Opened in Manslaughter Case_Harrisburg Telegraph_04 Jun 1929
• Newspaper Clipping: 4 Jun 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Murder Charge Dismissed in Flowers Case_4 Jun 1929
• Newspaper Clipping: 5 Jun 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Jury May Receive Flowers Case Today_5 Jun 1929
• Criminal: 6 Jun 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Flowers Acquitted of Manslaughter_6 Jun 1929
• Criminal: 6 Jun 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Flowers Is Acquitted Of Manslaughter Charge_6 Jun 1929
• Residence: 1930, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
• Criminal: 29 Feb 1932, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Flowers Amongst 19 Arrested in Series of Raids Late Saturday_Evening News_29 Feb 1932
• Newspaper Clipping: 6 Nov 1933, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA; Betty Brown Being Sought By City Police-Negress Charged with Slashing Chauncey Flowers_6 Nov 1933
• Occupation: 20 Dec 1935, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Dreamland Cafe ---Chauncey Flowers Manager

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Friends for years
Samuel W. Lawyer, 45, 822 Cowden street, is dead, victim of an argument over a game of cards with Chauncey Flowers, 34, 232 Sayford street. Lawyer was shot through the heart and instantly killed in the barroom at the Wallace Hotel, Cumberland and Wallace streets, early Saturday evening.

Pleads Self-Defense
Flowers, who fired the shot, insists he was forced to take his friend's life in self-defense. He is in jail on a charge of murder and will be given a hearing later in the week before Alderman John P. Hallman. No date has been fixed by Coroner J. H. Kreider for an inquest.
Captain of Detectives Hyde Speese said that witnesses told him Lawyer attempted three times to fire a revolver at Flowers, but the weapon did not discharge. Flowers said he warned Lawyer to "put that away," but his friend attempted to shoot him, and then he fired at Lawyer, who dropped to the barroom floor, dead.

Funeral Wednesday For Victim
Funeral services will be held for Lawyer Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Second Baptist Church, Forster street. The body will lay in state at the church on Wednesday between 11 and 1:30 o'clock, where it may be viewed by friends.
He was a members of the Pythian Lodge 34, K. P.; Chosen Friends Lodge No. 43, F. and A. M.; united Lodge No. 71, of I. B. P. O. E. and ,W., of which he is a past exalted ruler of Council No. 6.
The Rev. C. F. Jenkins will officiate at the funeral services. Mrs. (Continued on Page 8)

KILLS FRIEND AS THEY ARGUE OVER CARDS
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Daisy Lawyer, the man's widow, is the only survivor. Burial will be made in the Lincoln Cemetery.

Wife Overcome
"Buddy was not a fightin' man," said Mrs. Lawyer, wife of the slain man. between sobs, at the Cowden street home today. "I have been In bed since this happened. I can't believe it. Chauncey and Sam were good friends.
"They had been to Steelton together during the day, and had just came back. Sam didn't come home that evening and then we heard about this," she added.

Under Physician's Care
Mrs. Lawyer has been under a physician's care since her husband's slaying. She said today that she has not made any funeral arrangements as yet for her husband's burial.
According to Charles Anderson, proprietor of the hotel where the shooting took place, the two men had become boisterous earlier in the evening and he had told them to get out.
Both left and Flowers came back some sometime later, and ordered some beer, he said, adding Flowers was standing at the bar drinking when Lawyer entered by another door.
Lawyer stood by the opposite wall, according to witnesses, and pulled a revolver from his pocket. He pulled the trigger several times, say witnesses.

Warns Lawyer
"You better put that way," Flowers is said to have told Lawyer, but Lawyer pulled it again. Flowers then put his hand into his coat pocket and pulled the trigger of a .32 caliber automatic that he carried there. The bullet penetrated Lawyer's heart and he fell to the floor.
Anderson called the police and the Polyclinic Hospital. When the doctor arrived with the ambulance he examined Lawyer and pronounced him dead. The body was held there until the arrival of Dr. J. H. Kreider, the county coroner.
Anderson is a former city patrolman, having been on the force eleven years.

Never Carried Revolver
"Buddy never carried a revolver," declared Mrs. Lawyer. "While Flowers always was armed."
Flowers was placed under arrest by Detective Sergeant Rineer and Patrolmen Sweger and Bryan. Statements were taken from Anderson, his son, Leroy Anderson, Flowers, also Samuel Lucas, Peter Luster and John Venso, other witnesses of the shooting, police said.
The only motive advanced for the shooting is an argument the 'two men had earlier of each other's ability at a card game called "five-up."
Lawyer has been employed for the past fifteen years at the State Capitol building as custodian of the basement.

Buried:
Lincoln Cemetery

Died:
41 Age: 41

Chauncey married Earnestine Hagans on 21 Apr 1920 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. Earnestine (daughter of Rev Ishmael Hagans and Ella Beatrice Washington) was born on 27 Jul 1902 in Swainsboro, Emanuel, Georgia, USA; died on 26 Jun 1950 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Willow Grove, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Chauncey S Flowers was born on 10 Jul 1920 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 11 Jan 1966 in Gary, Lake, Indiana, USA.
2. Margaret Frances Flowers was born on 19 Aug 1921 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died in Mar 1986 in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, USA.

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• Physical Description: Eyes: Black; Hair Black; Complexion Black; Height 5 ft. 4 1/2 in.
• Biography: “Harry Flowers,” Roots Of A Hidden Legacy
• Veteran: Civil War: Sargeant Co. F 21st Reg U.S.C. Infantry
• Name: Asa F. Flowers
• Name: Harry F Flowers
• Name: Harry Flowers
• Name: Harry Flowers
• Name: Morry Flowers
• Residence: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Military: 1864, Florida, USA; Co. F 21st Reg U.S.C. Infantry. Muster Date: 17 Aug 1864 Muster Company: F Muster Regiment: U.S. Colored Troops 21st Infantry Muster Regiment Type: Infantry Muster Information: Enlisted Rank Change Date: 31 Aug 1865 Rank Change Rank: Corpl M
• Military Enlistment: 17 Jul 1864, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA
• Military Muster: 17 Aug 1864, Hilton Head, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
• Military Rank Change: 31 Aug 1865; Promoted to Corporal
• Military Rank Change: 1 Oct 1865; Promoted to Sergeant.
• Military Discharge: 25 Apr 1866; 22 Age: 22
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 6, Putnam, Florida, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Self
• Residence: 1887, 33 West State street, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA
• Military Pension: 6 Jul 1896, Florida, USA; Unit: F. 21. U.S.C. Infantry Filing Date: 6 Jul 1897 Place Filed: Florida, USA Relation to Head: Soldier Roll number: 156
• Residence: 1920, Monroe, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Divorced Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Florida Occupation: Carpenter; Industry: House; Home Owned; Home Mortgaged; Able to Read and Write.
• Residence: 1928, Boiling Springs, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes:

“I am 43 years old, a carpenter, residence and P.O. Address is at Mandarin, Duval County, Fla. I was 5th duty Sergt. of Co. A 21 Regt U.S.C.T. and served from the fall of 1865 [sic] to until the M.O. [muster out] of our Co. April 25/66. I first knew the dec’d, husband of cl’t in the service, when we got to Hilton Head S.C. I enlisted at Jacksonville, Fla…” January 7, 1891[1]

On July 17, 1864 in Jacksonville, Florida, former enslaved and freed blacks stood in the Union army’s enlistment line. Waiting, at a mere five feet and four inches, was a young eighteen year old former slave of Putnam County, Florida.[2] As Lieutenant George F. Hopper asked the young man for his name he replied Harry Florence Flowers. Harry was assigned to Company A and F of the 21st United States Colored Infantry (USCI), a garrison and fatigue unit composed of former slaves from South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.[3] He was faced with his fair share of discrimination given lower wages than white soldiers and handed the shovel more times than weapons of war. Still, he pressed on. Although there would be no film showing their glory, one of the 21st USCI’s greatest achievements is being recognized as the first Union army to enter Charleston after the city’s surrender in 1865.[4]
By 1893, Harry relocated to Jacksonville, Florida where he worked as a carpenter. It was in Jacksonville where Harry met North Carolina native Nancy Sawyer. They married and welcomed the birth of their first child, Chauncey Sawyer Flowers in 1895. By 1910, Harry and Nancy had a total of eight children: Chauncey Sawyer (b. 1895), John Carrolis (b. 1898), Fred (b. 1899), Rachel Helen (b. 1900), Theodore G. (b. 1905), Vincent Allen (b. 1906), Gladyce (b. 1908), and Hilda Clifford (b. 1910).[5] For unknown reasons, Harry and Nancy divorced. The children traveled North with their father in what historians entitled the Great Migration in 1913.
The Flowers migrated to Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania in a home called the “Greenview Dwelling”.[6] Here, Harry raised his children on a rich legacy with a rich knowledge of their African heritage and a value system built on a foundation of love, justice, and moral right.[7] He taught his children the importance of an education and the belief that children are central to the family.[8] These were lessons his children carried throughout their lives passing them on to their own children and community. They were reminded of their father’s lessons until his death on July 7, 1928. His efforts during the Civil War were honored in 1998 with the dedication of the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington D.C. If you search closely, you will find his name engraved on the memorial’s sculpture.
Sergeant Harry Florence Flowers
1846-July 7, 1928
“Harry Flowers,” Roots Of A Hidden Legacy: (blog), March 14, 2014, https://flowersfamilyproject.wordpress.com/introduction-2/harry-flowers/.

Harry Flowers died Saturday at his home in Boiling Springs. He is survived by eight children; Chauncey S., John C, of New York; Rachel H., Theodore W., Gladys C, Mrs. George Conway, of Philadelphia, and Hilda, of Boiling Springs. Two grandchildren also survive him.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 at the Wesley A. M, E. Church, this city. The Rev. Rufus Hawkins will officiate. Burial will be in the Lincoln Cemetery.


Buried:
Lincoln Cemetery

Died:
84 Age: 84

Harry married Nancy Jeannette Sawyer. Nancy (daughter of Joseph Sawyer and Uka Sawyer) was born on 7 Apr 1873 in North Carolina, USA; died on 1 Jul 1963 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Ethnicity: American
• Race: Mulatto
• Name: Mrs. N J P Floisers
• Name: Mrs. N J P Flowers
• Name: Mrs. N J P Mrs Flowers
• Name: N J P Floisers
• Name: N J P Flowers
• Name: Nancy J P Flowers
• Name: Nancy J P Sams
• Name: Nancy Jeanette Flowers
• Name: Nancy Jeanette Sawyer
• Job: Employer: Employer
• Residence: 1885, District 8, Putnam, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1910, Ortega, Duval, Florida, USA; 37 Age: 37; Farmer Occupation: Farmer; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; EnumerationDistrict: 0063; HomeMortgaged: Mortgaged; HomeOwnership: Own; Industry: Home Farm; LiveOnFarm: Farm; NativeLanguageCode: English; NumberOfChildrenBorn: 9; NumberOfChildrenLivin
• Residence: 1930, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1935, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1940, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head

Harry married Mother Unknown Flowers. Mother was born in 1820. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Uka Sawyer. Uka was born in 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]