Diaries Of Flora Irene King
Flora was the only child of Henry (Ray) McCumber King & Irene Eliza (Halliday) King. She was born December 18,1911 and died April 11,1996. She was a school teacher and a Librarian at a school in Mexico, New York. During school she lived in Mexico and when school was out she would come home to her parents home on 31 Wardwell Street in Adams,Jefferson Co., New York. She was very interesting to talk to, a quite soft spoken person and one of my favorite people. She never married or had any children and was my mothers cousin and a great granddaughter of Irene Dixon Bamford whose diaries you will also find on my site. A lot of my genealogy started with her. I wish she was still here to see how much more I have found. She told me once we were kindred spirits for we liked a lot of the same things. She loved reading about our ancestors, the way they lived and the times they lived in and tried to imagine her self in their place. The house she always lived in was built by her father. I remember sleeping in her guest room where the bed was so tall you had a step stool matching to get in and out with and it was so comfortable to sleep in with matching marble top dressers. By the fire place in the living room she had some of Uncle Voltie's duck decoys he was so famous for making. She liked to read, and always enjoyed a good movie. When she was young she had a lot of freinds and was always going to the movies. She enjoyed crossword & jig saw puzzle's. She was very interested in history and native american things. She had picked up a lot of arrow heads while at the school in Mexico, New York and she gave them to me for my oldest son Robert. She also gave me two poetry books her mother had given her once. She loved the rain to see it and hear it on her roof top was comforting to her. On the day of her funeral it rained. She didn't write long diary entries sometimes only a line or two. I hope you enjoy them.
I have diaries for Flora from 1934,1935,1938 then she kept a five year diary three of them which spans from 1944 - 1948 ;1949 - 1953 & 1954 to 1958. The rest of them she didn't remember what she did with them. She gave me these in the late 1980's.In copying them I have marked certain days of importance. Family things I marked with* National News items I marked ** and News about World War 2 I marked with #. Things that might be of interest to others I will mark +
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This is a picture of Flora's father and his parents. On the left is her father Henry "Ray" McCumber King his mother and Flora's namesake, Flora (nee:McCumber) King and his father and Flora's grandfather Fred King. All are buried in the Depauville Cemetary
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