Individual Details

Received bequests from his father's will, Dec of 1824, in Morgan Co IL

1830 Morgan Co IL Census, p.65; Reel #24 B'ham Library: Josiah Flynn 1m -5; 1m 30-40; 1f -5; 1f 5-10; 1f 20-30. [the description does not fit this family]

Josiah Flinn is buried Hebron Cemetery, Sinclair, Morgan Co IL. Died 14 Oct 1835, Aged 36 years, 4 months.
Also buried there is Frank Flinn, Jr. who died 19 Apr 1899 - a contributor has noted he was born in Cass Co.. He was most likely a grandson of Zadock Wright Flinn, as Zadock had a son Franklin M. Flinn.

Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa
p. 513
W. C. Flinn, one of Belmont Township's earliest settlers, has been an eye witness of Warren county's develpment....
Mr. Flinn was born in Cass county (actually Morgan Co), Illinois, Jan 20, 1830, a son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Smith) Flinn. They were the parents of four children. Nancy, widow of Andrew Bertram, who died in Jasper Co, Iowa; Eveline Jane, deceased at the age of twenty-five years, was the wife of Jacob Schrader, who resides near Fort Scott, Kansas; W. C. the subject of this sketch; and Mary, deceased, was the wife of John Lang, a farmer of northeastern Kansas. The father, Josiah Flinn, was born in North Carolina, and was there married. They afterward located in Cass county, Illinois, when that section was a comparative wilderness. There he erected a small log cabin, in which our subject first saw the light of day. The father passed away there, and shortly afterward his widow married Joshua Adkins. She also buried her second husband, and had this grand old lady lived eight days longer she would have celebrated her ninetieth birthday. She was a Christian woman, and for sicty years worshiped in church from her home where she had resided those many years.
W. C. Flinn, the subject of this sketch, received his education ...schools of Cass county. In the fall of 1855 he emigrated to Warren Co, Iowa, where he practically lived an isolated life for a number of years, his nearest neighbor having been a mile and a quarter distant....
January 10, 1851, he was united in marriage with Miss Mahala Joyce, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Alexander Joyce. She accompanied her parents to Illinois when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Flinn have had ten children, namely: Josiah of Lyons Colorado; John, a farmer of Belmont township; William Henry, who has been an invalid for years is at home; Mary, wife of Frank DeSandy of Lyons, Colorado; Louisa, wife of James Johns, also of that city; Adeline, wife of Elisha Johns; Florence, wife of Cyrus Duncan, engaged in farming the home place; Charles, at home; Frank, deceased at the age of six months; and Amanda, who died at the age of fourteen months. Mr. Flinn is a member of the Freewill Baptist Church.

I found Joshua and Elizabeth Adkins, buried Flinn Cemetery, Morgan Co, IL. FindAGrave Memorial #108366999. He died 31 May 1878. Elizabeth died 1 Oct 1890.

Birth	Jun 1799	Surry County, North Carolina
Death	14 Oct 1835	Morgan County, Illinois
Marriage		Elizabeth Smith

Spouse	Elizabeth Smith (1800 - )
Child	William C. Flinn (1830 - 1897)
Child	Eveline Jane Flynn (1827 - 1855)
Child	Mary Flinn ( - )
Child	Nancy Flinn ( - )

Father	LAUGHLIN FLYNN (1746 - 1825)
Mother	ELIZABETH WRIGHT (1760 - )
Sibling	REBECCA FLYNN (1780 - 1830)
Sibling	James Flynn (1782 - )
Sibling	Miriam Flynn (1786 - 1818)
Sibling	Zadock Wright Flynn (1795 - 1868)