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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1823 - 1901 (77 years)
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| Name |
Flintoff, John Fletcher [1] |
| Birth |
1 Oct 1823 |
Orange County, North Carolina  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
11215 |
| Death |
31 Aug 1901 |
Caswell County, North Carolina [1] |
| Burial |
Yanceyville United Methodist Church, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I11009 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
16 May 2024 |
| Father |
Flintoff, William, b. 1775 d. 1826 (Age 51 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Robson, Mary, b. 1791 d. 25 Sep 1871, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi (Age 80 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1815 |
England [1] |
| Reference Number |
82404 |
| Family ID |
F5591 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Pleasant, Mary Murray, b. 12 Apr 1831, North Carolina d. 18 May 1882, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 51 years) |
| Marriage |
5 Jun 1850 [1] |
| Reference Number |
82307 |
| Notes |
- Married by Rev. Elias Dodson at the home of the bride's father. Marriage date is from the diary of John Fletcher Flintoff.
Name: John F. Flintoff
Spouse: Mary M. Pleasant
Marriage Date: 11 May 1850
Marriage County: Caswell
Marriage State: North Carolina
Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0478484-0478488
Source: County Court Records at Yanceyville, NC & Family H
Source: Ancestry.com. North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2000 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005
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| Children |
| + | 1. Flintoff, John Pleasant, b. 6 Aug 1853, Adams County, Mississippi [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Flintoff, William Josephus, b. 6 Jun 1856, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 27 Sep 1857, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Flintoff, Charlie Brown, b. 15 Apr 1858, Caswell County, North Carolina d. 28 Dec 1936 (Age 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 4. Flintoff, Mary Emma, b. 8 May 1862 d. 9 Dec 1891 (Age 29 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F3156 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- John Fletcher Flintoff (1823-1901)
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John Flintoff kept a diary from 27 April 1841 until near his death 31 August 1901. Many of the facts reported here on the Flintoff family come from that diary.
In 1976, The Caswell Messenger published its 50th anniversary edition. It included excerpts from the John Fletcher Flintoff diary, along with the following preface:
"The following excerpts were taken from a diary kept by John Flintoff from April 27, 1841, to the year of his death in 1901. He died on August 31 of that year and is buried in the Methodist Church cemetery in Yanceyville. This diary was recorded in 1972 by Betty Motley Sartin, wife of David Sledge Sartin, son of Ema Sledge Sartin, daughter of Alice Flintoff Sledge, daughter of Charlie B. Flintoff, son of John F. Flintoff."
Here is the only entry with respect to the Charley Brown Flintoff house:
"Nov. 30 1898: I came here with Mary Fannie to Charlie's large brick house of 12 rooms with 312 1/2 acres of land he bought in April last of Dr. Stanfield estate -- a very cold time we suffered -- Charles family came three days afterwards -- on his and my farm we made 135 lbs. of corn -- 10 bushels of wheat and 11,500 lbs. of tobacco -- the two tract has nearly 400 acres -- I deeded Charlie 160 acres of it in 1882."
Source: Flintoff, John Fletcher. "Flintoff Diary Reveals Life in Caswell County During 19th Century." The Caswell Messenger (Yanceyville, North Carolina) 23 June 1976, Volume 51, Number 25: A-14 - A-15.
The Dr. Stanfield reference most likely is Dr. Josiah Asbury Stanfield, M.D., who died 14 February 1896. He married Agnes Ware Sargent, daughter of Stephen Sargent and Ann Payne Ware Sargent. The first husband of Ann Payne Ware was James Richardson, who built the house in question (referred to by the family as the "Brickhouse").
Dr. Josiah Asbury Stanfield and his family lived in Leasburg in what now is called the Stanfield-Connally-Kimbro house.
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Caswell County Board of Commissioners: September 7, 1875
"Ezekial Jones, Jasper E. Cobb, and Jno. F. Flintoff, school committee for Locust Hill; James M. Neal, Monroe Oliver, and Lewis Bigelow, for Yanceyville Township."
Source: Historical Abstracts of Minutes of Caswell County, North Carolina 1777-1877, Katharine Kerr Kendall (1976) at 117.
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Entries in the diary kept by John F. Flintoff portray very realistically the situation which many people in Caswell County faced at the end of the war. On August, 17, 1865, he wrote:
"The people have had scarcely bread to supply them till harvest fall -- they will live on what there is -- very little meat anywhere to be had -- altho I have corn sufficient to supply my wants until Nov, when new corn will be dry enough to grind -- we have had 3 bad crops -- Years 1862-3-4 -- this year so far promises good for corn & tobacco for which I am worst by hard work -- this summer I am feeble as to health and only weigh 136 lost 12 lbs. in 4 months tho I am still at work -- My negroes all stay with me while the most of others are running about from home to home believing they are free -- many of them are killed and dieing for want of money and protection -- poor creatures -- I have to ride often after them and arrest them for trial, for their fighting, stealing and other meaness they are very troublesome to the white people."
Five days before Christmas he noted that he then had plenty of grain and pork and 85 bushels of wheat. "Bete, Sarah and William left me as free folks -- John, Mary, Sally & Henry stays with me yet -- I have to hire them as free Negroes." For Flintoff the situation may have been stable for the better part of a year, but on Christmas Day, 1866, his diary entry begins: "Allen left me. . . ." And in January, 1868, he noted: "All my negroes have left me -- I hired 3 hands this year. . . ."
Powell, William S. "When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County North Carolina 1777-1977." Durham (North Carolina): Moore Publishing Company, 1977 at 228-229.
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1870 US Census
Name: John Flintoff
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1820
Age in 1870: 50
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1870: Locust Hill, Caswell, North Carolina
Family and neighbors: View Results
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Locust Hill
1880 US Census
Name: John F. Flintoff
Age: 55
Estimated birth year: abt 1825
Birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: Farmer
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Home in 1880: Locust Hill, Caswell, North Carolina
Marital status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Spouse's name: Mary M. Flintoff
Father's birthplace: ENG
Mother's birthplace: ENG
1900 US Census
Name: John F Flintoff
Home in 1900: Dan River, Caswell, North Carolina
Age: 77
Estimated birth year: abt 1823
Birthplace: North Carolina
Race: White
Relationship to head-of-house: Father
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- Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 205 (Article #212, "John Fletcher Flintoff and Family" by Pearl Sledge McCarroll).
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