1486“John William was born in the late 1820's, in Illinois.  His mother and father were George Flynn Jr., and Caroline Hill.  they moved shortly after he was born to Arkansas.  There whole family came including John's Grandfather and Grandmother, George Flynn, Sr. and Sally Haynes Flynn and all his uncles and aunts.  They first settled in Jefferson County, but in the the 1870's after the Civil War they settled in Lonoke County.  He owned quite a bit of land and when his wife Sarah died in the year of 1882, he gave some of his land for a Cemetery.  To this day it is called the Flynn Cemetery.   John died sometime during the year of 1887.  They say he took Sarah's death very hard.”

1389Home in 1880:
Hamilton, Lonoke Co., Arkansa