TUTTLE, Flora May (Woodard) 1868-1931

WOODARD, TUTTLE, CONNER, SAMPSON, SAWYER

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Date: 4/13/2010 at 11:25:06

Flora May (Woodard) Tuttle 1868-1931

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MRS. TUTTLE IS BURIED AT OSAGE
CORRESPONDENT WROTE NOTES FOR
HER OBITUARY WHILE ILL IN BED

OSAGE, IOWA - Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Baptist church for Mrs. F. May Tuttle, well kown for her newspaper writing and bird studies. The Rev. John D. Kern was in charge. Burial was in a local cemetery.

While ill in bed Mrs. Tuttle prepared notes of her last newspaper story for the Globe-Gazette, for which she was a correspondent. This story was her own obituary. Her sister, Harriet V. Woodard, has written these notes into the following obituary:

Flora May Woodard, eldest daughter of Otis P., and Ellen Sawyer Woodard, was born in a log cabin on a farm in Delaware county April 15, 1868.

When she was a year and a half old the family returned to Milwaukee, and in 1872 went to Vineland,N.J., for a year for the benefit of the mothers health, returning to Milwaukee and then, for four years residing in Jefferson, Wis. In the spring of 1878 the family came to Osage, which place was Mrs. Tuttle's residence since, excepting six years residence in Waterloo.

In June 1879, she was baptized in the Cedar river, just above the Sunny Brae golf grounds, and had been a member of the First Baptist church ever since, except during the residence in Waterloo, when she was a member of the Waterloo First Baptist church. From the age of 16 until the age of 62 she was a teacher in the Sunday school of her church.

On May 6, 1890, she was married to Hiram E. Tuttle and to this union were born four children; Mrs. Ruth M Conner, Rudd; Mrs. Dorothy V Sampson Clermont; Donald W. Tuttle, Osage, and Marion Alice, who died March 5, 1918, at the age of 13.

Mrs. Tuttle was the author of "Flora of Mitchell County", containing her analyses of 500 plants. She collaborated with Dr. Pammell in gathering plant data and also discovered the gray birches in this locality and the rare blue-purple Chelone Glabra. She also collaborated with the Rev. C. J. Pope in writing a history of the Osage Baptist church. She worked as local reportr for Osage News for 10 years and contributed to other publications.

Mrs. Tuttle was graduated from the Osage high school with the class of 1899 and also attended the Cedar Valley seminary one year, where her intereset in geology became an obsession, only second to that in botany, aroused in her high school courses.

She contributed 300 botanical specimens to the state agricultural college at Ames, and about the same to the state university at Iowa City; also several thousand geological specimens to the latter. She is a fellow of the Iowa Acaemy of Science, a member of the American association for the advancement of science; the D. A. R; the National Geographic society, and was president of the local Wa-Tan-Ye club.

[ Mason City Globe Gazette, Wednesday, February 4, 1931 ]
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OSAGE, IOWA - Feb. 6 - Flora Mae Woodard, eldest daughter of Otil P. and Ellen Sawyer Woodard, was born in a log cabin on a farm in Delaware county, Iowa, April 15, 1868.

When she was a year and a half old the family returned to Milwaukee and in 1872 went to Vineland, new Jersey, for a year for the benefit of the mother's health, returning to Milwaukee and then, for four yeawrs, residing in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

In the spring of 1878 the family came to Osage, which place has been her home since, excepting siz years residence in Waterloo.

Mrs. Tuttle was graduated from the Osage high school with the class of 1889, and also attended the Cedar Valley seminary one year, where her interest in geology became an obsession, only second to that in botany, aroused in her high school courses.

She has contributed three hundred botanical specimens to the state agricultural college at Ames, iowa, and about the same to the state university at Iowa City; also several thousand geological specimens to the latter. She is a fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the D.A.R.; the National Geographic Society, and was president of the local Wa-tan-ye club.

In June, 1879, she was baptized in the Cedar River, just above the Sunny Brae golf grounds, and has been a member of the First Baptist Church ever since, except during the residence in Waterloo, when she was a member of the Waterloo First Baptist Church. From the age of 16 until the age of 62 she was a teacher in the Sunday School of her church.

On May 6, 1890 she was married, to Hiram E. Tuttle, and to this union were born four children: Mrs. Ruth M. Conner, Rudd; Mrs. Dorothy V. Sampson, of Clermont; Donald W. Tuttle, of Osage, and Marion Alice, who died March 5, 1918, at the ags of 13.

Mrs. Tuttle was the author of "Flora of Mitchell County" containing her analysis of five hundred
plants. She collaborated with Dr. Pammell in gathering plant data, and also discovered the gray
birches in this locality and rare blue-purple Chelone? Clabra.

She also collaborated with Rev. C. J. Pope in writing a history of the Osage Baptist church. She worked as local reporter for the Osage News for ten years, and had lately been Osage correspondent for the Mason City Globe Gazette, the Charles City Daily Press, and the Waterloo Courier.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Baptist church, and burial made in the local cemetery.

[Charles City Press, Feb. 6, 1931, pg 8]

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PHOTO BELOW IS FROM A NEWSPAPER OBITUARY FOR FLORA.