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Flack_family_history_JMF_to_JMFII_1980 |
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Flack Family History |
Author |
James M Flack II |
Source ID |
S7 |
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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” |
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James Monroe Flack, I |
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