Extracts from a Research Paper on the Reynolds Family

Author Un-named but full document here in PDF download.
(Author writes from Fort Mitchell, Kentucky on 15 Apr 1967.)

The Reynolds/Flack linkage seems to be as Follows:-

"Uriah Reynolds had married Cemantha Adeline Flack (1845-1927) from Flackville in 1869 and their children were Barron, Welby, Estella, Inez, Alvah, Edith, Leon, and Isa. Uriah died suddenly of pneumonia in 1906 at the age of 61, not very old but he had probably overworked all his life. Cemantha survived him almost 20 years and died in 1927 at the age of 82 at Lisbon, where she lived with Edith after Alvah’s death.
Of the tenth generation, only Inez died in childhood. Estella and Isa both married, but only Estella had children. Edith became a practical nurse and worked mostly on private cases, caring also for her mother the last years of her life. All of the girls lived most of their lives in St. Lawrence County, as did Leon and Alvah, who continued the farming tradition in the family. Barron worked with the telephone company and raised his family in Vermont and is buried there. Welby became an educator and taught and raised his family in Kentucky and is buried there."

The research paper then comments on the source of a lot of the Flack information laid out in the paper:-

"For all the information about the Flack family we are indebted to Una Flack (Dr. Lester) Clelland. Her correspondence with other Flack family members located a will of a James Flack in Washington County, New York, who named several children, among them Richard, John, and James, believed to be in St. Lawrence County at the time of his death in 1840. This James Flack (1755-1840) is believed to be the son of Richard Flack, one of four brothers who settled in Washington County in 1767. Una’s father told her that only one Flack came from the old world and that all Flacks in this country were related. He said also that they came from Massachusetts to Vermont, to Washington County and then to St. Lawrence County. It seems Richard and John migrated to Lisbon in 1802 as they are in the 1810 census with large families. James appears in the 1820 census with a growing family. The 1790 census of Washington County has two James Flacks (our James and probably a cousin James whose descendants remained there),. And the 1800 census of Washington County has these two James Flacks and also Richard as already head of a household."

The paper then finishes with a number of Charts/Trees of various legs of the family as follows:-

Chart VIII

The four Flack brothers who settled in Washington County, New York, in 1764 in a colony led by Dr. Thomas Clark were Richard, John, James, and Joshua. Joshua later accompanied Dr. Clark to the Carolinas.

James Flack (1755-1840), thought to be son of the brother Richard married 1775 Margaret McCarter (1751-1835) and lived at Hebron, N.Y.
Children: Richard, James (see next below), John, (birth dates not known), Robert (1791-1857), Samuel (1796-1858), Nancy (married Crossett), Martha (married Van Ortick), Jane (married Bockes, later Brown), Margaret (married Wilson, died 1874).

James Flack (dates can be obtained from burial place at White Church cemetery in Lisbon, N.Y.) (son of James (1755-1840)) married 1807 Mary Powell (dates not known) and lived at Lisbon, N.Y.
Children: John P. b. 1808, Thomas b. 1810 (see next below), Margaret b. 1811, Ann b. 1814, Richard b. 1815, Jane-James-Jason (illegible) b. 1818, Susan and Polly (twins) b. 1820, Garrett P. b. 1824, Harriet b. 1823, Mary b. 1826, Douglas b. 1828.

Thomas Flack, b. 1810 (buried at White Church cemetery, Lisbon, N.Y.) married first wife (name unknown) and had three infants (all buried at Lisbon as is Thomas and his first wife.) married Mary (Polly) Wallace, buried at Early, Iowa, where they lived.
Children: Cemantha Adeline b. 1845 (see next below), Samuel Wallace (1849-1918), Minnehaha (married Bancroft), Perry, Napoleon Bonaparte, David, Emogene (married Fulton), and Sophia Wallace (orphaned sister of Polly whom she raised as her own child).

• Cemantha Flack (1845-1927) married Uriah Reynolds, see Chart III
• Minnehaha and Emogene had no children
• Perry, Napoleon, and David remained in the west when Thomas and his father James returned to St. Lawrence County
• Sophia Wallace married John Powell and had three children, John (married but no children),
• Mary (married John Speer but no children), and Belle (married Thomas Dunn and had two children,
• Bessie (no marriage)
• Homer (has large family in St. Lawrence County)
• Samuel Wallace Flack married Marietta Lawrence (1850-1874) and had one girl Beulah (married twice, one adopted daughter, now no living descendants).
  He then married Amaretta Lawrence, his first wife’s sister, and they had four children:
  • Shirley b. 1866 (married Briggs, no children),
  • Worth (married Dix, children Theodore, Hugh, Arlene, all at Cavendish, Vt. with families)
  • Una (married Dr. Cleland of Lisbon and has four infants buried at Lisbon and four daughters:
    • Mary Elizabeth (married Hannan, two children Mike and Mary Elizabeth, resides Ithaca, N.Y.),
    • Dorothy (married Hall, five children Carol, Michael, James, Catherine, John, and one grandchild),
    • Jane (married Tyo), two children John and Lester, resides in Ogdensburg),
    • and Caroline Melisse (married Allen, one child Debbie, resides Monticello, N.Y.)
  • Ina, fourth child of Samuel and Amaretta Flack, b.1893, married Harry Bemis (died 1953) and lives in Cavendish, Vt. as do her two children.

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