Individual Details

1880 Census. Belmont Twp, Warren Co, Iowa, Hh 294
William Flinn, 50, Farmer, b. IL
Mahala, 49, wife, b. KY
William, 22, son, b. Iowa
Adaline, 12, dau
Florence, 9, dau
Charles, 3, son
Hh 292: Josiah Flinn, 27, b. IL. Martha, 23, wife, b. Iowa. William 1, son, Died Jul 19th.
Hh 293: John Flinn, 25, b. IL. Minta, 21, wife, b. Iowa. Nora, 1, dau, Died Jul 28th.

A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa, Vol. 1, Walsworth Publishing Co, Iowa, 1896, p. 513
W. C. Flinn, one of Belmont township's earliest settlers, has been an eye witness of Warren county's development....
Mr. Flinn was born in Cass County, 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, 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 northeaastern Kansas. The father, Josiah Flinn, was born in North Carolina, and wasthere married. they afterward located in Cass Co, IL when that section was a comparative wilderness. ....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.
...In the fall he (W. C. Flinn) of 1855 emigrated to Warren Co, Iowa where he 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 natice of Kentucky and 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 a invalid for years, is at home;
Mary, wife of FrankDeSandy of Lyons, Colorado;
Louisa, wife of James Johns, also of that city;
Adline, 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;
Amanda, wh died at the age of fourteen months.
Flinn is a member of the Freewill Baptist Church

Birth	20 Jan 1830	Morgan County, Illinois
Death	20 Mar 1897	Belmont, Warren County, Iowa

Father	Josiah Flynn (1799 - 1835)
Mother	Elizabeth Smith (1800 - )
Sibling	Eveline Jane Flynn (1827 - 1855)
Sibling	Mary Flinn ( - )
Sibling	Nancy Flinn ( - )