Update on John Flint of Caldwell County

The following is an update on the post on John Flint HERE  from 14 April 2015

Eli Flint  at Eli.Flint@flexjet.com offers the following points in determining that John Flint, who is buried in Hill Cemetery in Caldwell County, Kentucky, is not the John Flint who left a will in Caldwell County Will Book A, page 333, dated 23 Nov 1819. There were two men of the same name, leading to much confusion.

~  Buried directly next to John Flint in Hill Cemetery is Nancy Flint, noted as  "daughter of Benjamin W. and Ann Flint.”  Their tombstones are in good condition and easily read.  This solves what many people have confused with the Irish born John Flint, who also died in Caldwell County in 1819, as being Ben W. Flint’s father. Surely Ben W. and Ann Flint would not have buried their daughter next to the wrong John Flint.  The tombstone of both John and his granddaughter, Nancy, are in good condition and easily read.   

Tombstones of Nancy Flint and her grandfather, John Flint

in Hill Cemetery

Nancy W. Flint

Daughter of Benjamin W. & Ann Flint

was born Aug. 25th & died Sept. 4th 1821

[buried beside John Flint above]

~  People with the surnames of Ford and Jones are also buried within 25 feet.  These were Ann Ford Flint’s people.

~  Caldwell County records, actually in the courthouse deed and probate books, show that Benjamin W. presented himself in court in 1817 with witnesses to administer his father’s estate and subsequently took over the land and taxes, settled debts, and lived there for several years on Skinframe Creek before selling and moving the family to Graves County, where I grew up.

~  Multiple records in the courthouse for livestock transactions, property deeds, and road work warrants reference John and Benjamin W. Flint.

~  Benjamin W. Flint’s oldest son was named John, who then named his first son Benjamin.

~  Benjamin W. Flint is clearly documented in Graves County deeds, taxes, newspapers, as are all subsequent Flint generations buried in Hebron Cemetery in Lowes, Kentucky; Alexander Addison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Morgan (my grandfather).

There is a tree in Hebron Cemetery planted when some of the family left to go out west.

Many thanks to Eli Flint for sharing this information.

Submitted by:  Eli Flint (son of Rodney Flint who was the son of Alex Morgan Flint)     

Published 16 July 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/