http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/preston/bios/flynn.txt Benjamin Flynn was born in Fauquier County, was edu- cated there, and as a young man left his family to enter the Confederate Army as a member of the 20th Virginia Infantry.
He was a scout in the mountain sections of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Following the war he became a furnace man in Lyon District, and at the time of his acci- dental death in 1883 was superintendent of the Irondale Furnace.
Benjamin Flynn married Miss Lydia Buncutter, of Winchester, Virginia, daughter of George Buncutter, who spent his life in the Shenandoah Valley. Mrs. Lydia Flynn died in 1869, and the only one of her five children to grow to maturity is James W. Flynn.
The second wife of Benjamin Flynn was Miss Mary Montgomery, and she and six of her nine children survive.
Died due to an accident and buried in Shay's Chapel Cemetery, Newburg, Reno District, Preston County, WV, USA
Preston County, West Virginia 615
James Flynn, Sr., was born in 1810, and died in 1858. His son Benjamin W. Flynn, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Warrenton, Fauquier county, Virginia, and his mother at Win- chester, Frederick county, Virginia, and both came with their parents to Preston county in 1848. Her name before marriage was Lydia Bunculler. Their son, James W. Flynn, of whom we now speak, was born in Lyon District, Preston county, March 13, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of the county, and in Fraser's Business College of Wheeling, West Virginia.
Maplewood Cemetery Kingwood Preston County West Virginia, USA
Created by: eidolon126 Record added: Mar 12, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 86646691
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