Flora Sheldon Bush

Flora Sheldon (1872–1920), the daughter of Robert Emmet Sheldon (1845–1917) and Mary Elizabeth Butler (1850–1897) married Samuel Prescott Bush on June 20, 1894. Her maternal grandfather was Courtland Philip Livingston Butler (1812–1891), a member of the Livingston family.

Together, they had five children:

• Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895–1972), who married Dorothy Walker (1901–1992), daughter of George Herbert Walker.
• Robert Sheldon Bush (1896–1900), who died in childhood
• Mary Eleanor Bush (1897–2001), who married Francis "Frank" House
• Margaret Livingston Bush (1899–1993), who married Stuart Holmes Clement (1895–1974) in 1911.
• James Smith Bush (1901–1978), a director of the Export–Import Bank, and president of the Northwest International Bank.

Flora died on September 4, 1920 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, when she was hit by a car.