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  • Title Flack_family_history_JMF_to_JMFII_1980 
    Short Title Flack Family History 
    Author James M Flack II 
    Source ID S7 
    Text May 4, 2006

    My father James M. Flack told me in 1980 the following facts about his father and mother, Pop and Mom. I wrote these down in a pocket notebook, tore the pages out and stored them in the bottom of a lock box I’ve had since grade school. Yesterday I was looking for something else and found these notes on that conversation. I’ll transcribe them because I had taken them in short hand as we had the conversation.

    Jim Flack, II
    San Francisco
    “Pop 83 died 1970
    Born 1886
    In Tennessee
    Greensbough NC
    Guilford County, NC

    Pop’s dad married twice
    Pop was from the 2nd wife

    Pop’s dad was from Tennessee
    Moved from NC to Tenn. in 1980’s
    Newbern, Tenn.
    And Pop was born in Newbern

    J. P. Flack- Newbern
    105 years – son of Pop’s dad’s brother

    Pop was an orphan-his dad was old at his birth (50-60)
    Therefore both parents died when he was young
    Pop lived with J.P. Flack and his family 11 or 12 or so
    Promised horse and saddle at 16- he then headed west to Oklahoma Territory.
    Then to southern Mississippi lumber business and became a saw filer moving up to a superintendent of the woods – Stephenson Miss.- SW Mississippi –Amite County near Natchez

    Foster Creek Lumber Co folded in Depression
    1931 Crosby Lumber Co started mill up again
    2 years only in Depression.
    Began garden I acre; fed community.
    Dad (JMF) went to college in Cleveland, Miss.; worked in Shaw, Miss. Afterwards

    1933-4 heart attack for Pop

    Mom was Postmaster in Crosby

    Pascagoula in 1940
    House and store (grocery)
    Shipyards

    Boo – 2nd base; Dad converted him to pitcher

    Mom was youngest of 7 sisters- Mt Olive, Miss
    Mom – 5 years younger
    Married at 17

    Mom was 22 when JMF was born
    JMF knew Mom’s father
    Chester Swore – son of Mom’s sister

    Pop’s dad was a farmer in both states (NC and Tenn.) cotton and corn

    Flack is Norwegian “by the water”

    Spec J.K. Flack – Inn Keepers

    Baxterville – “Devil’s backbone” area

    Foster Creek logging area is now oil –Ovet/Bloget

    Crosby, Miss. High School / Ruby” 
    Linked to (1) James Monroe Flack, I