Individual Details

His birth year is unclear. Each Census lists a different age. Joel Flatt indicated that the records for the Gardener Cemetery shows his birth date year as 1864.
In the 1871 Canada Census he is living with his family in Mulmur Township, Dufferin/Simcoe Co, Ontario, Canada as 7 years old which would be about 1854.
In the 1900 Census (family is recorded in index as Shall) is living in Kinyon Township, Cass County, North Dakota on his farm with his wife Rachel and four sons.
In the 1910 Census he is living in Kinyon Township on his farm with his four sons.
In the 1915 North Dakota Census, Joseph, Martha, Vernon, and Marvin are living in Kinyon Township.
In the 1920 Census he is living in Kinyon Township in dwelling 62 on a farm with his wife Martha, two children, and nephew Charles W. Cauthers.

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Birth	Mar 1864	Ontario, Canada
Marriage	Abt 1892	Rachel DAVIS
Marriage	18 Mar 1914	Cass County, North Dakota - Martha WOITZEL
Burial	Oct 1927	Gardner Cemetery, Gardner, Cass County, North Dakota
Death	7 Oct 1927	Gardner, Cass County, North Dakota

Spouse	Martha WOITZEL (1878 - 1958)
Child	Violet Rachel Flatt (1915 - 1995)
Child	Herbert Albert Gustav Flatt (1919 - 2008)

Spouse	Rachel DAVIS (1870 - 1904)
Child	William Gordon FLATT (1893 - 1941)
Child	Vernon Joseph Flatt (1895 - 1955)
Child	Floyd Davidson Flatt (1897 - 1973)
Child	Marvin Josiah FLATT (1897 - 1935)

Father	Josiah (Jesse) Flatt (1828 - 1910)
Mother	Rachel Lyons (1835 - 1872)
Sibling	Elizabeth Flatt (1854 - 1941)
Sibling	Margaret Ann Flatt (1854 - )
Sibling	John Henry Flatt (1856 - 1923)
Sibling	Rachel Anne Flatt (1859 - 1895)
Sibling	Sarah Jane Flatt (1863 - 1947)
Sibling	Emma "Emmey" Flatt (1867 - 1953)
Sibling	Matilda (Tilda) Flatt (1868 - 1871)
Sibling	William Flatt (1869 - )
Sibling	Louise Flatt (1868 - 1951)
Sibling	Charline Flatt (1871 - )