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6 Flora's fate was very sad. you know she was a queer girl, When she grew up her parents sent her to school at San Francisco
- but she was strangely unmanageable the teachers could do nothing for her expelled her - then in Yosemite she became a ladies
guide - dressed in mens clothes, rode like a cowboy or a Tomboy, was a great favorite with the visitors. When she was about
17 years old, she was converted was very devout. One day as she was guiding a party of ladies up the Glacier Point trail she
dismounted in front of the Sentinel Rock climbed up a few feet to get some ferns for one of the ladies. There is a small stream
there in climbing she slipped got her feet wet in the icy current at a critical time, took sick died. In so simple a way notwithstanding
her vigorous constitution constant exercise poor Floy lost her life. She was sincerely mourned. She lies in the little graveyard
a few hundred yards east of the old mill. I visited her grave last summer Al. May also lies there, deid long ago. Dick Horton
was shot in a quarrel about the 00215