Mrs. Lucy M. Flournoy was nicknamed the “Mother of Edna.”
Mrs. Flournoy was the granddaughter of Robert Guthrie, to whom Stephen F. Austin granted land in 1824. That land passed to Guthrie’s sons and then his daughter Martha Dever, married to Col. Dever, after her brothers’ deaths. Mrs. Flournoy later inherited the land from her mother.
She conveyed right-of-way to the New York, Texas and Mexico Railway Company through the Robert Guthrie league and a half-interest in the town track of 800 acres for the railroad to build through town and to plot blocks, lots, and streets.
- “The Cavalcade of Jackson County, Third Edition,” page 109.
- Photo courtesy of Mr. Roy Ortolon.