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- John H. Flynt was born in Stokes County, North Carolina in 1801. His parents, Perry Flynt and Martha Halbert, left North Carolina about 1811, going to [Lincoln Co.] Tennessee before settling in Madison County, Alabama. There John Halbert married Martha Roberts in 1826. Their life was very mobile as they moved back and forth in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The family lived several years in Tishomingo and Tippah Counties, Mississippi. Two daughters were born there; his wife Martha died and he remarried [Lydia McLauren]. Two children were born to this union; Margaret Cordelia (1851) and William Duncan (1853).
The Gonzales County census of 1860 located the Flynt home in Hopkinsville. Clementine had married J. M. Dodson in 1858, and they were living with the Flynt family. Clementine Dodson died in 1914 in Hamilton, Texas leaving four daughters and one son.
Reverend John Halbert Flynt, Presbyterian Cumberland minister, his second wife Lydia McLauren Flynt, with his daughters Mariah Sophronia Flynt, Clementine Flynt and their two children joined his sons, Calvin Tarpley Flynt and Thomas Lambert Flynt, in Hopkinsville, Texas in the early 1850's. Calvin Flynt met the family, who had gone by wagon pulled by six oxen at La Grange, Texas. Jeremiah Flynt, brother of John H. Flynt, was already living in Hopkinsville. Eleven slaves followed the Flynts to Texas.
"W.W. Sorell and wife, Lucy Ann Flynt, Dr. J. M. Howell and wife, Oney Pricilla Flynt, came to Texas in 1854. They settled in the north eastern part of the county where John Halbert Flynt lived. W. W. Sorell and Dr. J. M. Howell moved to Belmont (the western part of the county) in 1865 on the Guadalupe River and in 1867 each one bought 200 acres of land and lived next to each other the rest of their lives." [NI0300] Information from: Franklin Slater McAllister
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Taken from "The History of Gonzales County, Texas"
by Gladys Kempe
Reverend John Halbert Flynt
Reverend John Halbert Flynt, Presbyterian Cumberland minister, his second wife Lydia McLauren Flynt, with his daughters Mariah Sophronia Flynt, Clementine Flynt and their two children joined his sons, Calvin Tarple Flynt and Thomas Lambert Flynt, in Hopkinsville, Texas in the early 1850's. Calvin Flynt met the family, who had gone by wagon pulled by six oxen at La Grange, Texas. Jeremiah Flynt, brother of John H. Flynt, was already living in Hopkinsville. Eleven slaves followed the Flynts to Texas.
John H. Flynt was born in Stokes County, North Carolina in 1801. His parents, Perry And Martha Halbert, left North Carolina about 1811, going to Tennessee before settling in Madison County, Alabama. There John Halbert married Martha Roberts in 1826. Their life was very mobile as they moved back and forth in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The family lived several years in Tishomingo and Tippah Counties, Mississippi. Two daughters were born there; his wife Martha died and he remarried. Two children were born to this union; Margaret Cordelia (1851) and William Duncan (1853). The Gonzales County census of 1860 located the Flynt home in Hopkinsville. Clementine had married J. M. Dodson in 1858, and they were living with the Flynt family. Clementine Dodson died in 1914 in Hamilton, Texas leaving four daughters and one son.
The strenuous life had its effects on John H. Flynt as he died June 30, 1861 in Hopkinsville. His wife Lydia McLauren Flynt went to live with her daughter Lenora McLauren Hornsby in Travis County. She died there in 1867 and was buried in the Hornsby Cemetery near Austin, Texas.
Calvin Tarpley Flynt was the first-born of John Halbert Flynt and Martha Roberts Flynt, born 1828 in Madison County, Alabama. He was in Texas by 1854 as he was appointed in Brazoria County "as true and lawful attorney to take possession of slaves." In 1856 he purchased land on the waters Peach Creek which included the homestead of Joseph L. Wilson and land from John E. Wilson in the Adam Zumwalt Survey. He had a hundred horses, cattle and sheep in Bee County. He married Mary C. Wilson June 23, 1856 and they had three sons: Joseph Halbert, John M., and Calvin T., who died in infancy.
Among the volunteers in the Hopkinsville Mounted Rangers were Calvin T. Flynt, a private; Thomas L. Flynt, a third lieutenant; and Thaddeus Jackson Tomlinson who had a shot gun. Calvin T. Flynt volunteered April 20, 1862 for the duration of the Civil War. He died in Service May 23, 1864 and was buried in New Orleans. Mary C. Flynt, his wife, was dead by 1867.
Oney Priscilla Flynt, a sister to Calvin, married Doctor J. M. Howell. Doctor Howell was appointed guardian of Calvin's two boys, Joseph, aged ten, and John M. aged seven. The boys attended Belmont Academy. Joseph H. married Sue A. Walton in Gonzales in 1880 and they reared a family of three boys and four girls. The family moved to Uvalde County where he died in 1907.
Thomas L. Flynt, born in Hardiman County, Tennessee, went to Texas with his brother Calvin in the early 1850's seeking land and fortune. He married Frances Matilda Kindred January, 1860 and lived with her parents Alex and Sara Kindred in Hopkinsville. Thomas enrolled in the Confederate army in Victoria, Texas in October, 1861. He was captured by Union forces in 1863 and was an exchange prisoner in 1864 with the rank of first lieutenant. A son Henry C. Flynt married Dora M. Hopkins in Gonzales County. A daughter Della married J. M. Henry and lived near Austin, Texas. Thomas L. Flynt died in 1902 and was buried in the Andrews Chapel Cemetery near Waelder, Texas.
Lucy Ann Flynt, born April, 1833 in Madison County, Alabama married William Walker Sorell.
William Walker Sorell and Lucy Ann Flynt were married in Tishomingo County, Mississippi November 30, 1848. He was born March 4, 1821. They moved to Gonzales County, Texas in 1857 and then to Belmont, Texas in 1865 where they acquired 200 acres of land on the Guadalupe River. W. W. Sorell died September 27, 1876 and Lucy Ann died January 5, 1890. Both were buried in the Belmont Cemetery. They had thirteen children: Martha, John Etherldred, William Calvin, Franklin Caldwell, Mary Alice, Thomas Hulet, Howell, Walker Willie, Amacy, Clementine, Cecil, and Cora A.
Mariah Sophronia Flynt, born 1839 in Tippah County, Mississippi, married Thaddeus Jackson Tomlinson in April, 1861 in the home of her sister Mrs. J. M. Howell in Belmont. T. J. Tomlinson, born in Yorkville District, South Carolina, went to Hopkinsville in the 1850's. He joined the Hopkinsville Masonic Lodge in 1858 and was secretary seven years. Sophronia Tomlinson and her daughter Oney were charter members of Order of the Eastern Star, Waelder Chapter No. 173 in 1894 until its demise in 1897. T. J. Tomlinson died in 1881 and was buried in the Waelder Cemetery. Sophronia Flynt Tomlinson died in 1902 and was buried beside her husband.
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