American actress and stuntwoman, also known as Lucille Lorraine. In 1934, she was named among the directors of the newly-formed Association of Film Equestriennes (Crete Sipple was second vice-president, while Vera McGinnis and Winna Browne were also among the directors). Per U.S. Census records, Flora was still working as an actress and extra as late as 1950.
She was married twice, first to Melvin Sylvester Craig (1888-1974) in 1913, which ended in divorce before 1920. Her next marriage was to movie theater projectionist Ernest Rudolph Pierson (1902-1970), which seems to have occurred sometime in the 1940s, and lasted until his passing. The Piersons are interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.
Her California Death Index entries give her date of birth as the 27th, while her entry in the Social Security Death Index (usually the more trustworthy record) says the 28th. More confusingly, the 1900 U.S. Census gives her birth date as August 1894 (and her age as 5; since the Census was taken in June, that doesn't seem to indicate any miscalculation between age and year as sometimes happens). Her FamilySearch family tree record gives her specific birthplace as Seymour, Texas, without a source. Absent an actual birth record, I'm going with the date on her Social Security Death Index entry, and the more general birthplace of Texas (backed by multiple records).
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