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STEPHEN DECATUR CHAPTER
NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Decatur, Macon County, IL

This page updated October 11, 2002

MARKING OF GRAVE for JOHN FLORA

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER

DAR Marked April 1971 - SAR Marked in 1974



John Flora - Born: April 17, 1760 - Died: July 18, 1850

John Flora is buried in Florey Cemetery, Long Creek, Macon County, IL.


Excerpts from Decatur paper April 1971:

DAR TO MARK REVOLUTION VETERAN'S GRAVE


Stephen Decatur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will dedicate a marker in *Florey Cemetery, at 2:30p.m. Sunday at the grave of John Flora, veteran of the Revolutionary War. He died July 18, 1830. The public is invited to the dedication service. The cemetery is just north of U.S. 36 at the east end of Long Creek.
   *Note:Some of the children and the cemetery are listed as Florey
   but John always was listed as Flora.


Excerpts from article in Decatur, Illinois paper January 31, 1932,
by Mrs. L.N. Lindsey, Historian, Stephen Decatur Chapter, DAR

John Flora was a native of the state of Pennsylvania, and it was from that state he saw service in the Revolutionary war. In *1820 he came to Illinois, reaching this place the latter part of December. He entered land from the government, built a log cabin and lived in true pioneer style. The family wore clothes of buckskin and caps of coonskin.
   *Note: They came in 1829

A short distance east of the village of Long Creek, a tiny cemetery may be seen, on the north side of the road. The land for this cemetery was given by Israel, a son of John Flora; and it was in this graveyard that John Flora was laid to rest. He died July 18, 1850, at the advanced age of 90 years.

John Flora's wife lived many years longer - long enough to see the boy Lincoln, who had come to Macon County after their own arrival, and who traveled the judicial circuit past their door.