Polly Smalley

Elisha and Polly Flowers along with their infant son Romulus Orlando left Kentucky sometime in late 1824.  They came into Texas with Stephen F. Austin’s Original Old 300 and received 4 reales of land (over 2000 acres) from Mexico in Matagorda County.  In the winter of 1826 the last recorded Indian raid in Matagorda County took the lives of Polly and her infant daughters.  Romulus, age three had gone hunting with his father and Charles Cavanah.  The women were all at the Cavanah home when they were massacred by the Karankawa Indians.  When the men returned, they went after the Indians and killed some of them.  Elisha and his son, Romulus stayed in Texas for awhile but eventually Elisha moved back to Kentucky.  There he married Susannah Baker and had another son, Martin Van Buren Flowers.