Lora Sarah La Mance (2 April 1857 – 9 May 1939) was an American horticulturist and writer, on gardening. She also published genealogical research.

Life

Born Lora Sarah Nichols, in 1857 in Indiana, the tenth and last child of Kezia (Waltman) and Nelson Irvin Nichols (1812-1865) - himself a twelfth child. Lora married, on 14 April 1880, Marcus N. La Mance (1844-1906) who ran a dry-goods store, and was post master, and several times country treasurer. They had one daughter, Lora Lee (1881-1941). Both Lora and Lora Lee were members of

Daughters of the American Revolution The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence. A non-profit group, they promote ...

(DAR), under multiple lines of descent. La Mance was active in the

temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture *Temperance (group), Canadian danc ...

cause and was local and county president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (

WCTU The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international Temperance movement, temperance organization, originating among women in the United States Prohibition movement. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social ref ...

), which took the county dry. Le Mance also worked for the

suffragette A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members ...

cause. In 1904 she published an extensive family history of the Greene family, inspired by the research of her grandmother. After her husband's death in 1906 she became more active in the cause of temperance and became a national organizer and lecturer, traveling extensively, both in North America and overseas. In 1928 she published a family history of the Waltman family, descendants of Conrad Waltman, many of whom fought in the American Revolution, and through which family she claimed some of the lines of descent for here DAR applications. La Mance is buried with her husband in Pineville Cemetery McDonald County, Missouri.

Works

* ''The Greene family and its branches from A.D. 861 to A.D. 1904'' (with poems descriptive of the text by Mrs Attie A Stowe) (1904) * ''The House of Waltman and its Allied Families'' (1928) * * * ''Jesus the Christ'' (1938)

Legacy

The

Lemance iris ''Iris brevicaulis'' is a species in the genus ''Iris'', it is also in the subgenus '' Limniris'' and in the series '' Hexagonae''. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from North America. It has bright green, glossy long leaves, a long zig-zagged ste ...

is named after her.

References

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The Greene family and its branches from A.D. 861 to A.D. 1904

Burial place

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mance, Lora La 1857 births 1939 deaths American horticulturists 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American writers American suffragists American garden writers