Flora Ann Bryan was born on August 10, 1847, in Jonesboro, North Carolina, to Newton and Ann Bryan. Her father was a farmer and merchant who owned $3,000 of real estate and $8,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Moore County, North Carolina. She married Archibald McIver, and they had at least four children: Ruth, born around 1869; Robert, born around 1871; James, born around 1874; and Evander, born around 1877. They lived in Jonesboro, and her husband worked as a farmer. By 1870, they owned $1,000 of real estate and $500 of personal property.

 

Her husband died in 1877. She remained in Jonesboro with her children, and she moved to Johnson, North Carolina, in the early 1900s. A local writer described her as a “sweet spirited christian woman, loved by every one.” She was “faithful and loyal to the Presbyterian church where she…held her membership continuously.” By 1930, she was living in her daughter Ruth’s household in Laurinburg, North Carolina. She died there of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 2, 1931.

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