Tharp

Amner Caroline (Ramsey) Flock (1840-1933) is my 3rd great grandmother. She passed away in Enid, Oklahoma while living with her daughter, Adeline Martha (Flock) Tharp. I have written about the final resting place of Amner and her husband John Flock. You can read about it here.

After I transcribed the death certificate, I noticed two items that needed further analysis. The first was the birth date for Amner Caroline. It was listed 1841 on the death certificate. This did not match with the date of 1840 I have in my software. The next box on the death certificate listed that she would have been 92 years, 3 months, 4 days old at death. I also noticed that my genealogy software said Amner Caroline would have been 92 years old with a death date in 1933. I found an online date calculator and input the death date and subtracted the 92 years, 3 months, and 4 days. Sure enough, the answer it calculated was 1840. The person who filled out the death certificate made an error in the birth year.

Also, the informant is listed as Addie Thorp. The name Addie is a nickname for Adeline Martha Flock. A closer look proved her last name was misspelled. Addie Flock married Frank Tharp in 1897 in Oregon. All records in Oregon use the Tharp spelling. Addie had followed some of her siblings to Oregon before her marriage. After her husband left her a widow, Addie moved into the same home as her mother in Enid, Oklahoma.

Amner Caroline (Ramsey) Flock Death Certificate

Amner Caroline Flock Death Certificate, 4 March 1933, registration district no. 24250, Primary Dist. no, 2401, Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Oklahoma State Board of Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about finding Caroline Flock in the Enid City Directories at Ancestry.com. At the time, Caroline was living with her second daughter, Addie Tharp. I have since done some research into Addie and her life. I was amazed how much I was able to find in a short amount of time about my great-great-grand aunt.

Addie was born Adeline Martha Flock November 5, 1863 in Iowa. She is enumerated with her parents as Martha in the 1870 and 1880 federal census. The 1875 Kansas census lists her as “A.” She is then listed as Addie in the 1885 Kansas census.

I have not found out the exact date but at some point Addie moved to Oregon in the late 1890’s. I have found the 1900 Federal Census record for Addie’s brother, Pearl. His son, John F., was born in Oregon in 1899. It is a very possible that Addie traveled to Oregon with Pearl and his wife, Mary. Addie married Frank Tharp December 19, 1897 in Albany, Benton, Oregon.

The 1900 Federal Census finds Frank and Addie living in Fairmont Precinct, Benton, Oregon with Frank’s two daughters from a previous marriage. I believe from a photo I found on Ancestry.com of the family that Addie is Frank’s third wife.

Frank and Addie farmed in the same area for some time. They are found again in the Fairmount Precinct in the 1910 and 1920 census. In the picture below, the enumeration district is pretty much everything west of the Willamette River. It is just north of Corvallis, Oregon.

Addie and Frank were married for 23 years when Frank passed away on March 1, 1920 in Albany, Linn, Oregon. He was buried in the cemetery there.

Addie is next found living with her mother in Oklahoma in the 1926 Enid City Directory. I do not know how soon after Frank’s death that she moved East. It must have been a very different trip traveling to Oklahoma in the 1920’s then traveling to Oregon thirty years earlier.