Dr. John Carroll Flinn

John Carroll Flinn was the first child born to Isaiah Flinn and Rhoda Wood Teague.  He was born in 1829 in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee.  He married Susan Frances McGuire in 1856.   As a young man he worked for a time as a saddle maker.  He attended the University of Nashville, now Vanderbilt, and eventually graduated as a doctor.  After the Civil War he migrated to Texas arriving there on New Years Day, 1870.  He eventually settled on a farm near Hutto, Texas and practiced medicine in the Hutto area until he died in 1895.  John Carroll and Susan Frances had sixteen children.  They were:


Mary Jane b.1857 
Curtis Wellington b.1858
George Renshaw b.1860
John William b.1861
Sallie Blair b. 1863
Thomas Henry Flinn b. 1865
Charles Lee  b. 1866
Albert  b. 1867
Joseph Franklin Perry b. 1869
Martha Blair b.1872
Annie Lane b. 1873
Effie May b. 1875
Patrick Hardy b. 1877
Margaret Pearl b. 1879
Carroll b. 1880

If you would like more information about the Flinn/Flynn family, please contact Jerry Flynn at [email protected]