• Name given as Augustus Amy.23, p G27

• Mr. Amy named me Amy Estelle. The loveliest doll and toys I ever had he gave me.36, p 1, line 32

• Mr. Amy never failed to visit us, long after their divorce. He was fond of us all – and to Mama he was a little above human.36, p 5, line 217

• The last time I saw Mr. Amy, Anne, Alice and I were in S. F. (I was not married); we met on the street. He asked where we were going and as we were going to lunch and he to his breakfast, we went as his guest to Marchand’s - and such a meal - ordered all in French. One thing, I remember and cooked after I was married was French fried onions in olive oil.36, p 6; lines 244-247

• By 1858 Amy had moved to northern California and was living in Yuba.1983

• see advertising by him1985

• In this city, May 26, 1908, Gustave L. Amy, a native of France [sic], aged 67 years.1986

• Died intestate.1984

• 1850 Census: New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. Age 11, b LA. In household of Adolphe Lange and Francoise Amy. [Putative]1987
• 1860 Census: Marysville, Yuba, California. Age 24, b LA. Merchant. $2500 personal property.1988
• 1870 Census: 6th Ward, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 30, b LA. Salesman in store. Lodging House. $600 personal property.1989
• 1880 Census: 5th Ward, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 42, b LA. Boarder. Sales Man. Parents b LA.1982

• Couldn’t find in 1900 Census, 29 Jul 2011

• She was married before, her first husband being G. L. Amy, with whom she lived four years, being granted a divorce in 1877.1979

• Source 3211 proves the relationship between the WALTER family of California and the LAWRENCE family of Springfield, Missouri.

• Mining engineer; Harvard graduate.23, p G27

• She left Mr. A. who many years older than she for her real love Willis Lawrence. He was a civil engineer - the most gentle, kindly man I ever knew. If you have a pin - a fan on a bar, with colored quartz - that Willis gave Alice when she was in high school.36, pp 6&7; lines 272-275

• Willis Lawrence was a faro dealer and book maker. He came from a very fine family and was a man of fine character. He died while I was in Missouri and left an estate of $55,000 which he divided among about 40 people. Zena knew three girls to which he gave $500.00 each, people that had been kind to him during his sickness.519, p 1

• Willis Lawrence, a former husband of Mrs. Fladung, testified that he taught her to shoot in Arizona, and that she became very expert with a pistol.1978

• …who now [1899] resides in California.1994

• As a young man, Willis Lawrence left his job as a telegrapher to go to the Arizona gold fields. There he was a prospector and teamster, and there, his friends said, he made money. There, also, he contracted the beginnings of the rheumatism which made him a cripple the last 30 years of his life.
Shortly after Lawrence returned here [Springfield] to settle down after a life of wandering, his mother, Mrs. Sarah C. Lawrence fell and broke her shoulder. A neighbor, who came in to clean the house for her, found $30,000 in unregistered bonds in a dresser drawer. At his mother’s death in 1927, Lawrence inherited most of her $29,961.69 fortune.
Neighbors called the aged cripple “the most generous man we ever knew.” He gave freely of his money to beggars and needy persons, they said–so freely that his friends feared he would give all of it away. During the depression, he tided over many a friend, and was a source of ready cash during the bank holiday in the spring of 1933.
Tired of the continual pain he suffered, Lawrence a few weeks ago, prepared to die. He made a long list of relatives–26 first and second cousins–and friends scattered over the nation, and to each of the 41 people he finally included in the list, he left a substantial sum in cash. Last night, he ended his own life with a revolver in his room here.1993

• Willis Lawrence came to Springfield with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lawrence, from Montpelier, Vt., when he was just a boy, in 1867. He didn’t have much formal education. He learned telegraphy, and was a railroad telegrapher here for several years. Then, while he was still a young man, he pulled out for the gold fields in Arizona. There he drove a team. He was out there a “long time,” his friends said. He made some money.
He came back to Springfield and established a home here. For several years he traveled. He made good investments during these years. Finally, in 1923, he settled in Springfield. The years he spent in the gold fields, however, began to tell on him 30 years ago. Rheumatism bothered him increasingly. Finally he had to use crutches to get around.1993

• Manager Willis Lawrence has introduced a number of improvements in methods of operating and is achieving excellent results. [Presumably the same Willis Lawrence]1995

• Mrs. [George] Lawrence died without will, but the court appointed Willis Lawrence, who was the sole heir. He was administrator of the estate and had to make a rather large bond. This he did through a bonding company and had to pay quite a fee. Mrs. Lawrence might have avoided that expense if she had made a will. Willis Lawrence may have made some money in the west but he also inherited the Lawrence fortune. He seemed to be a careful, close sort of a man inclined to deny himself many things in life until his later days when he became extremely liberal and aided many a poor and deserving person through his generosity. The Lawrence family were a substantial trio, who had always been well off, honest, and considerate of others.1996

• 1860 Census: Rosendale, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Age 4, b WI.1997
• 1870 Census: Springfield, Greene, Missouri. Age 14, b WI.1992
• 1900 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 44, b VT. Lodger. Civil Engineer. Parents b VT. Married 5 years.1967
• 1930 Census: Springfield, Greene, Missouri. Age 74, b WI. Roomer in household of John J. Fleming. Parents b VT. No occupation.1998

• Have found no evidence to confirm his being a “Harvard graduate;” 20 Jul 2023.

• It is not certain that she was ever legally married to Lawrence, but she lived with him seven years, separating about two years ago.1979

• She left Willis for the German she said, and I believe it, so she could once more have a home for her sisters to come to.36, p 7; line 279

• Fladung is one of the largest contractors. He is a German and about forty years of age. Police Sergeant Williams [said he] has little hopes of his recovery.
Fladung was booked at the Central Station on a charge [of] murder. In conversation with Police Surgeon Wittman he said that his wife had shot him and then shot herself. He further charged her with having struck him with a bottle last Saturday.1979

• Murder and Suicide.
San Francisco, May 19.––Edward Fladung, a German laborer, 35 years of age, shot and instantly killed his wife, May, aged 34 years, this evening. He then shot himself, inflicting a wound that will probably prove fatal. From a letter found on Fladung it appears that he and his wife had a quarrel Saturday, and that this morning she sent him a letter, saying that she meant to leave him and move with her furniture to 326 Ellis street. Fladung went to that address in a rage, and the tragedy ensued.1999

• WHO FIRED THE SHOTS?
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Did Mrs. Fladung Shoot Her Husband and Kill Herself?
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ONE PHYSICIAN SWEARS SHE DID.
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Clearing Away the Mystery Surrounding a Tragedy Enacted in an Ellis-Street Residence – Footprints in Blood
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[excerpts]
Witnesses with theories, a blood-stained pair of shoes, the translation of a letter which had been found torn in a hundred pieces, and Dr. Frederick W. Von Buelow were the central figures in the examination of Edward Fladung, charged with the murder of his wife, before Judge Rix in Police Court No. 1 yesterday afternoon.
From the time Edward Fladung, while stretched on the operating table at the City Receiving Hospital, gasped, “My wife shot me; I forgive her,” up to the present, theories of the tragedy which occurred on the 19th of May last, resulting in the death of Mrs. May Fladung and the almost fatal wounding of Edward Fladung, her husband, have been formed…2002

• FLADUNG ON TRIAL
Edward Fladung is on trial before a jury and Judge Shafter charged with the murder of his wife on May 19th last at their lodging on Eddy street. They had been married less than one year and quarreled continually. Much of the testimony in the hearing of the case before the Coroner and the Police Magistrate went to show Fladung was very intemperate and abused his wife cruelly. It also appeared that she had lived many years before meeting Fladung as the wife of a gambler.1965

• HE DID NOT KILL HER
Edward Fladung Declared Guiltless of His Wife’s Death
The Jury Out But A Moment
The jury before whom Edward Fladung has been on trial for the murder of his wife, Mary Fladung, yesterday afternoon acquitted him on the first ballot, not being absent from the courtroom more than five minutes.
The chief interest of the day centered in the testimony of the defendant himself, who related in an apparently frank way the circumstances leading up to the moment of the tragedy. He described at length the first accidental meeting in Los Angeles, their hasty marriage, and the quarrels which almost immediately ensued between them owing to her tendency to drink and to keep improper hours.
On one occasion, when he refused to get her some cigarettes at night, she scratched his face and he kicked her out of doors.
The witness then, with some appearance of emotion, described the events of the fatal 19th of May.
“I had intended going to San Rafael that day,” he said, “but missed the boat, and returned to our room at 508 Eddy street. My wife was not there, so I went out to lunch, and returned at 4 o’clock. I found she had been back in my absence and left behind her a handkerchief, four cartridges and a note. I went after her to 326 Ellis street, where I knew she had wanted to take rooms. In fact, we had quarreled about it before.
“Why,” I asked her, when we met, ‘have you come here?’
“She answered, “I don’t care for you.”
“Then I remembered she had taken my pistol away with her and I asked:
“Why did you take my pistol out of my pocket?”
“As I spoke I placed my hat on a chair, and it fell to the floor. I stooped down to pick it up and as I did so I heard her say: “Here is your pistol.”
“The next instant there was a shot, and after that I remember nothing more until I regained consciousness and found myself in the hospital.”
Mrs. Carrie Taylor, Mrs. Louise Taylor and Mrs. Phoebe Coffin testified to the drunkenness and violent temper of the deceased.
The defendant showed no emotion when acquitted, but quietly thanked the jury, as did the counsel, George Knight. Judge Shafter also seemed very well satisfied with the verdict.2003

• Could not find in 1870, 1900, 1910; Ancestry.com, 9 Mar 2005.

• Her third husband based on her married name at death.190, p 4