LaFayette Montgomery Flournoy

Birth Date

1820-09-19

Death Date

1900-06-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Paducah, Kentucky, attorney. Virginia native. Married Elizabeth C. Flournoy. Father of Richard C. A. Flournoy. Attorney in Paducah in 1850. Partner in the Iowa Land Company with Jeremiah T. Boyle. Partner in the Ohio and New Orleans Railroad with James Campbell, John Crockett, S. F. Singleton, William Norton, Henry Enders, James Langstaff, and B. F. Givens in Paducah in 1853. President of the Paducah Commerce Bank in Paducah in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division No. 1 (Paducah and Suburbs), p. 144; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, 1st District City of Paducah, p. 62; Patricia Ann Hoskins, “‘The Old First is With the South:’ The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky,” (Ph.D. dissertation, Auburn University, 2009), 59, 166; Find A Grave, "Lafayette Montgomery Flournoy (1820 - 1900)," Memorial #101813958, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101813958 (accessed September 26, 2017).

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