Flora Sheldon (Ohio, March 17, 1872 – September 4, 1920) was the wife of Samuel Prescott Bush and the mother of Prescott Bush, the grandmother of George H. W. Bush, and the great-grandmother of George W. Bush.
Her parents were Robert Emmet Sheldon and Mary Elizabeth Butler. Her sixth-generation ancestor Robert Livingston the Elder (b. 1654) was an ancestor of Hamilton Fish, Thomas Kean, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others.
She died on September 4, 1920 when she was hit by a car in Rhode Island.
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