Florence Amy Connor's life was difficult. She was born 1 January 1877 to James Connor (1858-1925) and wife Lucinda Hewitt (1853-1912). James was an Irishman, born in Dublin Ireland. His wife Lucinda was born in Jackson County, Michigan and by the age of 17, she was teaching in the Okemos, Meridian Township area. The young couple married around 1875. Florence Amy was their first child with a brother named George following in birth, 16 January 1882. The Connor marriage did not last and by 1887 Lucinda was remarried to Ernest Tinson while James Connor married a Miss May Van Horn in 1895. James was at one point a railroad employee, but the last few years of his life was employed by "Michigan Electric."

Florence and her brother seemed to have remained in Ingham County after their mother left and remarried. Florence was an enrolled student in the Okemos Union School in 1888.

According to Lucinda Hewitt Connor Tinson's obituary, Lucinda, after leaving Florence's father, first moved to Toledo, Ohio and then lived in Chicago, Illinois where she died in 1912.

Young Florence married around 1890 to George Elmer Stevens, a Meridian Township resident. George, always described as lame, was employed as a telegrapher operator but seemed not to be able to hold any type of job for long. The couple had 4 children by the time George completely was overwhelmed with alcoholism and addiction to morphine. A young son, Forest, born in 1899, died in 1903 and thereafter Florence and her children, living in Lansing, saw numerous newspaper headlines about their husband and father.

By 1913 George, who was presently employed at the Reo Plant in Lansing, had been in and out of not only the Ingham County jail but also had spent a year in the state prison at Ionia. His alcoholism was referred to as "tippling" and too seemed to be a malady that affected his younger brother Dwight and his widowed father, William J. Connor, of Meridian Township. A family fight among the 3 men took place on 13 April 1913 at the home farm. One newspaper account called it a "drunken orgy." The elder Connor died and both George and his brother were arrested on suspicion of murder. George was unfortunately overheard eagerly referring to money that the elder Mr. Connor had in the Williamston bank.

An autopsy was held on Mr. Connor and later both brothers were released from jail and charges against them dropped. According to the 1920 US Federal Census, Florence was not living with her husband and at her death, 2 May 1929, Lansing, he was not mentioned in the Lansing State Journal obituary. Florence, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage, was interred in Glendale Cemetery near her son Forest.

George Connor lived with his brother Dwight until Dwight passed in 1940. George died 29 March 1948, Lansing, and too was interred Glendale Cemetery, Okemos.

1903 Michigan Certificate of Death - Forest Stevens son of Florence Amy Connor Stevens

Lansing State Journal obituary, 28 November 1903, Forest Stevens, son of Florence Amy Connor Stevens

Lansing State Journal, 28 November 1903, George Elmer Stevens, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal 28 October 1908 George Elmer Stevens, prison sentence

Lansing State Journal 28 May 1909, George Elmer Stevens drunk, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal 15 March 1910, George Elmer Stevens, drunk, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal 19 April 1913, part 1, George Elmer Stevens accused of murder, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal 19 April 1913, part 2, George Elmer Stevens accused of murder, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal 19 April 1913, part 3, George Elmer Stevens accused of murder, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal, 22 April 1914, George Elmer Stevens, murder charges dropped, husband of Florence Amy Connor

Lansing State Journal 4 May 1929, obit for Florence Amy Connor Stevens

1929 Michigan Certificate of Death, Florence Amy Connor Stevens