Scary Turn of Events

Based on this newspaper article that ran in the Saratogian, 28 Mar 1916, it's apparent there were issues.


Philemon M Flagler was the son of Jeremiah Johnson Flagler & Ervaett Moul. A farmer who married Caroline Elizabeth 'Carrie' Rosell, the daughter of Wicks Rosell & Maria Jane Brooks.  Together they had 4 children, 3 lived - Arthur Brooks Flagler died at the age of 13, Maria Jane, Oscar V & Ellanita R.

courtesy of Marion Clas - Find A Grave

Carrie and the 2 girls left Phil before 1900 as both list themselves as widowed.

Philemon died 26 Nov 1915 and was buried with his son Arthur at the Clifton Park Baptist Cemetery.

courtesy of djones1992 - Ancestry

Sometime around 1907, Carrie married a Philip Wheeler Flagler and they all appear on the 1910 census in Tulare, California where Phillip was working as a carpenter.

But it doesn't look like life got easier for Carrie.

As indicated in the records at the Stockton State Hospital, Phillip was suicidal and homicidal and tried to strangle Carrie!

The story ran in several newspapers including the East Oregonian and the Oakland Tribune.

courtesy of Jane&Steve Revord - Find A Grave

Phillip Flagler died a short time later.








But it doesn't end there!

Of her two girls, Ellanita married Ernest Lathorp and had 3 children - Ernest, Berton & Gladys. Maria married James Henry Hood and had one son, Arthur.

Like her mother, Maria's marriage was not an easy one. And like her mother, her husband was violent and ended up being charged with attempted murder of her sister!

The story ran in the Oakland Tribune, 22 Dec 1911 and the picture is from the California, Prison and Correctional Records, 1851-1950 as found on Ancestry - he served 14 years at Folsom Prison.