Flynn line (U.S.): notable connections for Jerome Edwin Dwyer

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Flynn line (U.S.): notable connections for Jerome Edwin Dwyer

Research report, 6 October 2026. Scope: the Flynns of Nebraska and St. Joseph, Missouri: the couples James Murray Flynn and Anna Mary "Annie" Owens, and William Clifford Flynn and Anna Mary Paulson, plus Henry Owens and Leah. Nothing in the archive was edited.

Evidence tiers: [D] documented (a primary record, or an index or transcript of one, a contemporary newspaper); [C] compiled (online tree, Find a Grave, county history, cemetery transcription); [I] inferred (my reasoning); [T] tradition.

Summary

  • No famous kin found. Nobody with a Wikipedia article or comparable public standing turned up among the descendants of James M. Flynn and Annie Owens, or of William C. Flynn and Anna Paulson. The one person with a clear historical record is Winifred's brother, Col. Richard Theodore Flynn (1897-1996). He was a World War I sergeant of the 35th Division who raised the American flag over a sniper house in No Man's Land and was later wounded. After that he spent about forty years as an Army reserve officer and retired as a colonel. He is a good close entry, not a famous one. Winifred's sister Sister Mary Losa, SNJM (Marguerite Flynn) taught philosophy at Marylhurst College. That is minor, but it is on record.
  • James Murray Flynn: there is a lot of new material for a life story, mostly from the St. Joseph Observer (Library of Congress, Chronicling America) and the Congressional Record:
    • St. Joseph's congressman, Charles F. Booher, brought in private bills in 1912 and 1913 "granting a pension to James M. Flynn".
    • As "Justice Flynn" he married couples and arraigned prisoners in 1911-1913.
    • In 1918, aged about 72, he ran in the Democratic primary for justice of the peace on an "old soldier" appeal.
    • In 1921 he was buried as "Judge James M. Flynn" from the Cathedral.
    • His regiment is still not found. Every source that would give it (the enlistment register image, the Indian Wars pension index card, the pension file) is behind a FamilySearch or Fold3 login, or is a restricted book.
  • Small world (not kin): Congressman Charles F. Booher (Wikipedia) sponsored James's pension bills (probable). Charles Curtis, later Vice President, sponsored two earlier bills for "James M. Flynn" (possible; may be another man). Bennett Champ Clark, later a U.S. senator, was lieutenant colonel of the 6th Missouri Infantry when Richard T. Flynn was a corporal in it.
  • Ruled out: Gillian Flynn, the Gone Girl author, born in Kansas City in 1971. There is no link to James W. Flynn of Kansas City (1896-1983), and her father, Edwin Matthew Flynn, is not traced. Also "Lt. Col. Herbert L. Flynn" of the Army retired lists, who is a Massachusetts doctor and not Hubert Leo. Details are in Part 5.

Part 1. Famous-kin candidates

1. Col. Richard Theodore Flynn (19 Dec 1897 - 11 May 1996)

  • Why notable: He held the American flag over the "Old Stone House" (Remi Farm) in No Man's Land in the Vosges with the 140th Infantry, 35th Division, in summer 1918. He is named and quoted in the regiment's official history. He was reported wounded (degree undetermined) in the casualty list of 21 February 1919. He was an Army reserve officer from at least 1941 to 1957:
    • commanding officer of Headquarters Company at Fort Mason, San Francisco Port of Embarkation, from 1941;
    • Quartermaster Corps from 1941;
    • on the list for temporary colonel in 1952;
    • assistant inspector general, Korea Communications Zone, February 1953 to May 1954;
    • inspector general at Fort Lewis, Washington, 1954-55. He retired as a colonel on 31 October 1957 and is buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver. This is a real, documented career, but it falls below Wikipedia notability.
  • Suggested category: close. He is Winifred's brother, so he is an ancestor's sibling, not a descendant of a more distant couple.
  • Shared couple: William Clifford Flynn and Anna Mary Paulson.
  • Line: Richard Theodore Flynn (1897-1996). He is himself the couple's child.
  • Relationship to Jerome Dwyer: maternal uncle (his mother's brother).
  • Overall confidence: probable. That the Colonel is William C.'s son rests on matching birth month and year, death date and place, home town and wife, not on a single record that names his parents.

Evidence, step by step:

  1. Son of William C. Flynn and Anna Paulson.
  2. The St. Joseph boy is Cpl./Sgt. Richard T. Flynn of the 6th Missouri / 140th Infantry.
    • [D] Roster "Sixth Missouri Infantry, as of August 4, 1917", Company B, St. Joseph, Captain William F. St. John: Corporals ... "Flynn, Richard T."
    • [D] Official casualty list: "FLYNN, Richard T. Mrs. Marie E. Flynn, 1919 Union St., St. Joseph, Mo.", under Sergeants, "Wounded (degree undetermined)", Official U.S. Bulletin (Committee on Public Information), Friday 21 Feb 1919, p. 21 (Section 4 of casualties reported by Gen. Pershing), https://archive.org/details/officialusbulle5015unit_0
    • [I] The name, the town, his age (19 in 1917) and the National Guard company from St. Joseph all fit the boy in the censuses. There is no record naming his parents. Probable.
  3. The sergeant is the later Col. Richard T. Flynn (service no. O-261238), born 19 Dec 1897.
    • [C] Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver (VA burial data as transcribed by interment.net):
    • [I] The wife Marie E. matches the 1919 casualty list. The birth (Dec 1897) matches the census, and the death (11 May 1996, Denver) matches the tree. Probable to strong.
    • [D] Official Army Register, U.S. Army Reserve and other retired lists:
  4. Career between the wars and in WWII ([D], service number O-261238 links the entries):

The flag story (for the life story). The 140th Infantry's official history, in the chapter "Alsatian Days in Quiet Trenches" (p. 43), prints the 1st Battalion's daily report. Groupe de Combat I "Balmain" wanted a small American flag "which Company C will cause to float over the house in 'No Man's Land'", the sniper house known as Remi Farm. The flag went up, and the report came back signed by the G.C. commander:

"The Flag Flies. 'Twas a narrow escape. The boys just got on the top of the house, and they must have been heard, for Jerry rained machine gun bullets all around them. The flag went up just the same." Signed (SGT. R. T. FLYNN.) G. C. I Bis Commander.

Sgt. Joseph Winslow and Cpl. Julius C. Hinkefent put the flag up. Winslow and Cpl. Roy C. Strange took it down under bombardment when the French relieved them, and both received letters from the division commander, Gen. Traub, dated 16 Sept 1918. https://archive.org/details/fromdoniphantove00edwa

Open questions.

  • His Missouri WWI service card (Missouri State Archives Soldiers' Records database; it was not reachable by script) would give his birth date, wound and discharge.
  • Whether "Richard T. Flynn, Jr., M.D." was his son. He was born 1920 in St. Joseph, Mo., took his MD at Marquette in 1945, and was an obstetrician-gynecologist in Milwaukee and Waukesha County, Wis. Sources: Directory of Medical Specialists 1974-75, https://archive.org/details/directoryofmedic0000amer ; American Medical Directory 1956, https://archive.org/details/bwb_T3-BRL-425
  • [I] He fits as a son: born in St. Joseph a year after the marriage, and a "Jr." But no record links them. Possible.

2. Sister Mary Losa, SNJM (Marguerite Patricia Flynn, 2 Oct 1906 - 13 Dec 1995)

  • Why notable (minor): Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Marylhurst College, Oregon. She is listed with her M.A. among the Marylhurst philosophy faculty, "Sister Mary Losa, SNJM, M.A., Assoc. Prof.", in Archie J. Bahm's directory of American philosophers (1966). Source: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000arch (a restricted lending item; read from the search-result text only). Not Wikipedia-notable.
  • Suggested category: close, or leave her out.
  • Shared couple: William Clifford Flynn and Anna Mary Paulson. She is their child.
  • Relationship to Jerome Dwyer: maternal aunt.
  • Evidence:
    • [C] The Ancestry tree has "Marquerite Patricia (Sr. Mary Losa)", born 2 Oct 1906, died 13 Dec 1995, Marylhurst, Oregon. The archive's GEDCOM has the same.
    • [C] Find a Grave: "Sister Margaret Mary Losa Flynn, SNJM".
    • [D] 1910 and 1920 censuses in William C. Flynn's household.
    • [I] A religious name is not repeated among the living members of one congregation, so the Marylhurst professor "Sister Mary Losa, SNJM" is very probably her.
  • Confidence: probable.

Not found: famous descendants of James M. Flynn and Annie Owens

None found. Searched (Part 6): their children John Henry, Thomas Lafayette, Winifred Ann, Maud Margaret, Bertha G., Paul Ignatius and James F., and the grandchildren through William C.'s ten other children.

New facts on two of the children:

  • Bertha G. Flynn married John H. Gallagher at Salt Lake City on 29 Apr 1920.
    • Bertha: 38, born Clay Co., Neb., daughter of James M. Flynn and Anna M. Owens ("O. Wens" in the index).
    • John: 44, born Cleveland, Ohio, son of James E. Gallagher and Isabel Roche.
    • [D, index] Utah County Marriages, FamilySearch 1:1:KSPM-HWN, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSPM-HWN (the archive had this as "married 1920 Salt Lake City").
  • James W. Flynn (1896-1983), Winifred's eldest brother, in 1950 at Kansas City, Mo.:

Part 2. James Murray Flynn (1846-1921): material for a life story

The archive already has: born 1846 at Downeyville, Emily Twp.; baptized 1847; enlisted at St. Louis 16 Oct 1865 aged 18; married Annie Owens 1870; farmer at Fairfield 1880; Indian Wars pension (application 1917, payment cards 1907-1933, "Army invalid"); "Justice James M. Flynn", candidate for police judge about 1915; died 11 Mar 1921.

New findings, in date order:

  1. Pension bills in Congress:
    • 1906 and 1910: possibly him. Two bills for a James M. Flynn by Charles Curtis of Kansas, later Vice President. Both went to the Committee on Pensions, though Curtis's other bills that day went to Invalid Pensions:
    • 1912 and 1913: probably him. Charles F. Booher, Democrat, Representative for Missouri's 4th district (St. Joseph) 1907-1921 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Booher):
    • No committee report on any of these was found, so none of them gives his regiment. There is no sign that any of them passed.
    • [C/I] The House Committee on Pensions handled claims for service other than the Civil War, which fits Regular Army service in 1865-68. In 1917 he applied under the new Indian Wars service-pension law.
  2. "Justice Flynn" of St. Joseph, 1911-1913. [D] newspapers; that the justice is James M. is probable, because the c. 1915 clipping calls him "Justice James M. Flynn".
  3. 1918: candidate for justice of the peace. [D] St. Joseph Observer.

    • The County Clerk's Notice of Primary Election for 6 Aug 1918, Democratic Ticket, "For Justice of the Peace Washington Township (Four to be voted for)": "JAMES M. FLYNN, 1115 Powell St., St. Joseph, Mo." This gives a new address. Issues of 13, 20 and 27 July and 3 Aug 1918, e.g. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-07-20/ed-1/?sp=3

    • Paid items in the same paper:

      "The ladies say 'encourage the young soldiers by taking care of the old soldiers for the young soldier will one day be the old soldier.' Therefore cast your vote for James M. Flynn for Justice of the peace."

      "What became of the boy whose mother 'did not raise her boy to be a soldier'? He will be twenty-one years old Aug. 6th when he will vote for James M. Flynn for Justice of the peace, then he will enlist to help swat the Kaiser."

      27 July 1918, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-07-27/ed-1/?sp=5 ; again 3 Aug 1918, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-08-03/ed-1/?sp=5

    • [I] In wartime 1918 the campaign made his Army service its theme. His grandson Richard was then in the trenches in France.

  4. Death and funeral, March 1921. [D]
    • "The funeral of the late Judge James M. Flynn occurred from the Cathedral at 9 a.m. Thursday, and was very largely attended." St. Joseph Observer, 19 Mar 1921, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1921-03-19/ed-1/?sp=5
    • [I] The Thursday after his death on 11 March was 17 March 1921, St. Patrick's Day. "The Cathedral" is St. Joseph's Cathedral, St. Joseph. He is styled "Judge".
  5. Army service of 1865: still open. What is known, all [D, index]:
    • Enlistment: FamilySearch 1:1:VRQZ-KLG (Registers of Enlistments, image 409 of digital folder 004719499) gives only the name, the date (16 Oct 1865), St. Louis and age 18.
    • Pension index: T318 card, 1:1:KDRY-35W (roll 821613, image 3073), indexed as "Missouri, 1917", spouse Anna M.
    • Payment card: M850, 1:1:K64D-4QV (digital folder 004692913, image 320), death date 11 Mar 1921, Anna M. Flynn.
    • The record pages open without login but show no unit; the images need a FamilySearch login.
    • Virgil D. White's printed Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926 (1987), which gives the unit for each veteran, is a restricted lending item on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/indextoindianwar00whit
    • The 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll has no Flynn under Clay or Otoe County, Nebraska. So he was not yet a pensioner in 1883, if the OCR is complete. https://archive.org/details/listpensionerso01buregoog
    • To finish: with a FamilySearch login, read the three images above. The T318 card names company and regiment, then order the Indian Wars pension file from NARA (RG 15). Don't guess the regiment: St. Louis recruits of October 1865 went to many regular regiments.
  6. Missouri death certificate no. 6112 (1921). Still unread. The Missouri State Archives database only runs as a scripted form and could not be queried here.
  7. Unlinked Clay County item, do not attach. Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882), Clay County, Sutton (part 6): "The first shooting affray that occurred in the town ... Flynn shot Mullen in the face", saloon partners, about 1871-72. http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/clay/clay-p6.html
    • It is in Sutton, not Fairfield, and gives no given name. [I] Unproven namesake.

Two cautions for the archive:

  • A different St. Joseph man, John M. Flynn, was a grain merchant: president of the Midwest Grain Co. and of the St. Joseph Grain Club, and the "J. M. Flynn Grain Co." (St. Joseph Observer, 1917-1921; Northwestern Miller, 1914 and 1952).
  • A "Joseph J. Flynn", manager of the Horigan Supply Co., died at St. Joseph in April 1921. No link has been found.

Part 3. Other new family detail (William C. Flynn's household)

All from the St. Joseph Observer, [D]:

Part 4. Small-world connections (not kin)

  • Charles F. Booher (1848-1921), U.S. Representative from Missouri (Wikipedia). He brought in the 1912 and 1913 bills to grant James M. Flynn a pension. Probable (Part 2, item 1).
  • Charles Curtis (1860-1936), later 31st Vice President of the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis). He brought in bills in 1906 and 1910 to increase the pension of a "James M. Flynn". Possible only; it may be another man.
  • Bennett Champ Clark (1890-1954), later U.S. Senator from Missouri (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Champ_Clark). On 4 Aug 1917 he was lieutenant colonel of the 6th Missouri Infantry, when Richard T. Flynn was a corporal in its Company B. Source: regimental roster, From Doniphan to Verdun. Documented.

Part 5. Checked and unrelated or unproven

  • Gillian Flynn (born 1971, Kansas City, Mo.; author of Gone Girl; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Flynn). Her father is Edwin Matthew Flynn, film teacher, and her mother Judith Ann (Schieber). Winifred's brother James W. Flynn died at Kansas City in
    1. No link found:
    • in 1950 James W. and his wife Ethel had no children at home;
    • Edwin Matthew Flynn was not found in the 1950 Kansas City census, and his parents are unknown.
    • A namesake in the same city only. Unproven, not a connection.
  • "Lt. Col. Herbert L. Flynn" (O-265235, retired 1 Jan 1962), on the same Army retired lists as Col. Richard T. He looked like Hubert Leo ("Herbert L." in the Ancestry tree), but he was Dr. Herbert L. Flynn, born 27 Dec 1901 at Berlin, N.H., a state-school psychiatrist in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Sources: Biographical Directory of the American Psychiatric Association (1958), https://archive.org/details/lccn_58018042 ; JAMA, 22 Dec 1945. Unrelated.
  • "Sister Patricia Ann", registrar (Education Directory 1957-60). Beulah's Find a Grave name is "Sister Beulah Patricia Ann Flynn, SNJM", but this registrar was at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, Calif. (Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur), not Marylhurst. https://archive.org/details/educationdirecto00unse_7 . Unrelated. Nothing was found on Sister Beulah herself.
  • Other Richard T. Flynns in WWII-1950s sources. M/Sgt. Richard T. Flynn, 19th Infantry, a Korean War prisoner of war, of Passaic, N.J.; a Richard T. Flynn of the Hearst advertising service, Detroit. Unrelated (different places, ranks and careers).
  • Louis E. Flynn, Navy (NAS Memphis, 1950; Army and Navy Journal). No link to Louis Edward Flynn (1910-2000) of Oregon. Unproven.
  • "Hubert L. Flynn", pharmacist, Winston-Salem, N.C. Unrelated. A "Flynn Hubert L" in Polk's Portland city directory 1957 and 1959 is probably Winifred's brother, but nothing notable.
  • Bertha Flynn of Humboldt, Kansas, Kansas State Agricultural College 1916-19. Unrelated (the family's Bertha G. was 34-37 then and married in Utah in 1920).
  • Maud Flynn, B.Sc., Ohio State, and "Miss Maud Flynn" of a Catholic reading circle, 1924. Both are Columbus, Ohio. Unrelated.
  • Thomas Flynn (c. 1820-1895) of Emily Township, Ontario, wife Hanora Herlihy of Mallow (WikiTree Flynn-4604, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Flynn-4604). He is in the same township as John Flynn and Ann Murray, but no parents are given. This is a lead for the Canadian side, which is outside this report. Unproven.
  • Henry Owens and Leah. Nothing found: the name is too common for the free full-text sources, and there are no Nebraska items with linking detail.
  • Thomas Flynn, born 1874 Nebraska, living in Los Angeles in 1950 (1950 census index). Could be Thomas Lafayette Flynn, but it is unchecked and there is nothing notable.

Part 6. What was searched, and what could not be reached

Searched:

  • Internet Archive full text (newspapers, journals, directories, rosters, government serials):
    • every sibling of Winifred by name and variants;
    • James M. / J. M. / "Justice" / "Judge" Flynn with St. Joseph;
    • "Indian war", the pension bills and their numbers;
    • Richard T. Flynn in all forms;
    • Sister Mary Losa and other SNJM names;
    • Owens in Otoe County.
  • Library of Congress, Chronicling America: the St. Joseph Observer (sn90061457; digitized pages so far found only for 1916-1922). Every page with "Flynn" was read: 40 pages.
  • Army registers and journals: Official Army Register (1961-1967), Army Navy Journal, Army Times.
  • Congressional Record volumes and indexes, 1903-1913.
  • FamilySearch: individual record pages, and the openly searchable 1950 census.
  • Cemetery data: interment.net (Fort Logan).
  • Kansas Collection: Andreas (1882), Clay County, all 13 parts.
  • Wikipedia: List of people from St. Joseph, Missouri; Gillian Flynn; Charles F. Booher.
  • WikiTree API: James, William C. and Winifred Flynn, and Flynns of Emily and St. Joseph. None of the family are on WikiTree.
  • WebSearch: obituaries for Bernard (2003), Pauline Lemarte (1999), Hubert (1998) and Louis (2000). Nothing was found online. Their Oregonian obituaries would be in NewsBank or the Multnomah County Library.

Not reachable from here:

  • Find a Grave and Ancestry (403).
  • FamilySearch images, tree, and searches outside the 1950 census (login needed).
  • Fold3 (403).
  • HathiTrust full-text search (Cloudflare block).
  • Missouri State Archives Soldiers' Records and death certificate databases (scripted forms only).
  • Restricted archive.org books: Virgil White's Indian Wars index; the 1966 philosophers' directory, beyond the snippet.

Next steps, in order of value:

  1. The T318 Indian Wars pension index card and the M850 card images for James M. Flynn (FamilySearch, login). Then the NARA pension file. These give the regiment and campaigns.
  2. James M. Flynn's Missouri death certificate 6112 (1921), free at Missouri Digital Heritage. Also his obituary in the St. Joseph News-Press or Gazette of 12-17 March 1921.
  3. Richard T. Flynn's Missouri WWI service card (Missouri Digital Heritage, Soldiers' Records). Also his obituary (Denver Post or Rocky Mountain News, May 1996) for his children, Richard Jr. among them.
  4. The 1900, 1910 and 1920 census entries for James M. and Annie Flynn: where was he in 1906-1910 (Kansas or St. Joseph)? This settles whether the Curtis bills were his.
  1. # Flynn line (U.S.): notable connections for Jerome Edwin Dwyer
  3. Research report, 6 October 2026. Scope: the Flynns of Nebraska and St. Joseph, Missouri: the couples
  4. James Murray Flynn and Anna Mary "Annie" Owens, and William Clifford Flynn and Anna Mary Paulson,
  5. plus Henry Owens and Leah. Nothing in the archive was edited.
  7. Evidence tiers: [D] documented (a primary record, or an index or transcript of one, a contemporary
  8. newspaper); [C] compiled (online tree, Find a Grave, county history, cemetery transcription);
  9. [I] inferred (my reasoning); [T] tradition.
  11. ## Summary
  13. - **No famous kin found.** Nobody with a Wikipedia article or comparable public standing turned up
  14. among the descendants of James M. Flynn and Annie Owens, or of William C. Flynn and Anna Paulson.
  15. The one person with a clear historical record is Winifred's brother, **Col. Richard Theodore
  16. Flynn** (1897-1996). He was a World War I sergeant of the 35th Division who raised the American
  17. flag over a sniper house in No Man's Land and was later wounded. After that he spent about forty
  18. years as an Army reserve officer and retired as a colonel. He is a good **close** entry, not a
  19. famous one. Winifred's sister **Sister Mary Losa, SNJM** (Marguerite Flynn) taught philosophy at
  20. Marylhurst College. That is minor, but it is on record.
  21. - **James Murray Flynn**: there is a lot of new material for a life story, mostly from the *St.
  22. Joseph Observer* (Library of Congress, Chronicling America) and the *Congressional Record*:
  23. - St. Joseph's congressman, Charles F. Booher, brought in private bills in 1912 and 1913
  24. "granting a pension to James M. Flynn".
  25. - As "Justice Flynn" he married couples and arraigned prisoners in 1911-1913.
  26. - In 1918, aged about 72, he ran in the Democratic primary for justice of the peace on an
  27. "old soldier" appeal.
  28. - In 1921 he was buried as "Judge James M. Flynn" from the Cathedral.
  29. - His regiment is **still not found**. Every source that would give it (the enlistment register
  30. image, the Indian Wars pension index card, the pension file) is behind a FamilySearch or
  31. Fold3 login, or is a restricted book.
  32. - **Small world (not kin):** Congressman Charles F. Booher (Wikipedia) sponsored James's pension
  33. bills (probable). Charles Curtis, later Vice President, sponsored two earlier bills for "James M.
  34. Flynn" (possible; may be another man). Bennett Champ Clark, later a U.S. senator, was lieutenant
  35. colonel of the 6th Missouri Infantry when Richard T. Flynn was a corporal in it.
  36. - **Ruled out:** Gillian Flynn, the *Gone Girl* author, born in Kansas City in 1971. There is no
  37. link to James W. Flynn of Kansas City (1896-1983), and her father, Edwin Matthew Flynn, is not
  38. traced. Also "Lt. Col. Herbert L. Flynn" of the Army retired lists, who is a Massachusetts
  39. doctor and not Hubert Leo. Details are in Part 5.
  41. ---
  43. ## Part 1. Famous-kin candidates
  45. ### 1. Col. Richard Theodore Flynn (19 Dec 1897 - 11 May 1996)
  47. - **Why notable:** He held the American flag over the "Old Stone House" (Remi Farm) in No Man's
  48. Land in the Vosges with the 140th Infantry, 35th Division, in summer 1918. He is named and quoted
  49. in the regiment's official history. He was reported wounded (degree undetermined) in the
  50. casualty list of 21 February 1919. He was an Army reserve officer from at least 1941 to 1957:
  51. - commanding officer of Headquarters Company at Fort Mason, San Francisco Port of Embarkation,
  52. from 1941;
  53. - Quartermaster Corps from 1941;
  54. - on the list for temporary colonel in 1952;
  55. - assistant inspector general, Korea Communications Zone, February 1953 to May 1954;
  56. - inspector general at Fort Lewis, Washington, 1954-55.
  57. He retired as a colonel on 31 October 1957 and is buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery,
  58. Denver. This is a real, documented career, but it falls **below Wikipedia notability**.
  59. - **Suggested category:** `close`. He is Winifred's brother, so he is an ancestor's sibling, not a
  60. descendant of a more distant couple.
  61. - **Shared couple:** William Clifford Flynn and Anna Mary Paulson.
  62. - **Line:** Richard Theodore Flynn (1897-1996). He is himself the couple's child.
  63. - **Relationship to Jerome Dwyer:** maternal uncle (his mother's brother).
  64. - **Overall confidence: probable.** That the Colonel is William C.'s son rests on matching birth
  65. month and year, death date and place, home town and wife, not on a single record that names
  66. his parents.
  68. Evidence, step by step:
  70. 1. **Son of William C. Flynn and Anna Paulson.**
  71. - [D/C] 1900 and 1910 censuses, St. Joseph: Richard, born Dec 1897, Missouri, son in William
  72. C. Flynn's household (the archive's `census-1900-st-joseph-ward-4-flynn-2`,
  73. `census-1910-st-joseph-ward-2-flynn-3`).
  74. - [C] The Ancestry tree has his death as 11 May 1996, Denver.
  75. - [C] Find a Grave family links list "Col. Richard Theodore" among Winifred's siblings.
  76. - **Proven** for the boy in the censuses; the rest of this entry depends on matching him to
  77. the later man.
  78. 2. **The St. Joseph boy is Cpl./Sgt. Richard T. Flynn of the 6th Missouri / 140th Infantry.**
  79. - [D] Roster "Sixth Missouri Infantry, as of August 4, 1917", **Company B, St. Joseph**,
  80. Captain William F. St. John: Corporals ... "Flynn, Richard T."
  81. - Evan Alexander Edwards, *From Doniphan to Verdun: The Official History of the 140th
  82. Infantry* (1920), https://archive.org/details/fromdoniphantove00edwa ; the regimental roster also
  83. lists him.
  84. - The same roster is in Clair Kenamore, *From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the
  85. Thirty-Fifth Division* (1919), "Roster of Missouri National Guard", p. 299,
  86. https://archive.org/details/fromvauquoishill00kena
  87. - [D] Official casualty list: "FLYNN, Richard T. Mrs. Marie E. Flynn, 1919 Union St., St.
  88. Joseph, Mo.", under Sergeants, "Wounded (degree undetermined)", *Official U.S. Bulletin* (Committee on Public
  89. Information), Friday 21 Feb 1919, p. 21 (Section 4 of casualties reported by Gen. Pershing),
  90. https://archive.org/details/officialusbulle5015unit_0
  91. - [I] The name, the town, his age (19 in 1917) and the National Guard company from St. Joseph
  92. all fit the boy in the censuses. There is no record naming his parents. **Probable.**
  93. 3. **The sergeant is the later Col. Richard T. Flynn (service no. O-261238), born 19 Dec 1897.**
  94. - [C] Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver (VA burial data as transcribed by interment.net):
  95. - "Flynn, Richard T, b. 12/19/1897, d. 05/11/1996, US Army, COL, Plot W 0 1005";
  96. - "Flynn, Marie E, b. 04/16/1895, d. 01/14/1989, US Marine Corps, FLD CK, Plot W 0 1005",
  97. the same grave;
  98. - https://interment.net/data/us/co/denver/logan/f/f04.htm
  99. - [I] The wife Marie E. matches the 1919 casualty list. The birth (Dec 1897) matches the
  100. census, and the death (11 May 1996, Denver) matches the tree. **Probable to strong.**
  101. - [D] *Official Army Register*, U.S. Army Reserve and other retired lists:
  102. - "FLYNN RICHARD T, COL, O-0261238, retired 31 10 57, RES, M7". Read from the page image,
  103. 1967 register, p. 214, https://archive.org/details/officialarmyregi196723unit
  104. - The same entry is in the 1962-1966 registers (e.g.
  105. https://archive.org/details/officialarmyregi19622unit).
  106. - It is the only Richard T. Flynn, colonel, on those lists.
  107. 4. **Career between the wars and in WWII** ([D], service number O-261238 links the entries):
  108. - *Army Navy Journal*, 29 Mar 1941: "Capt. Richard T. Flynn, 8 April, to San Fran. Port of
  109. Embarkation, Ft. Mason, Calif.",
  110. https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1941-03-29_78_31
  111. - *Army directory: reserve and national guard officers on active duty* (1941): "FLYNN RICHARD T
  112. 0-261238 ... S F P OF E FT MASON CALIF ... CAPT",
  113. https://archive.org/details/armydirectoryres00wash
  114. - *Army Navy Journal*, 23 Aug 1941: "Capt. Richard T. Flynn, from Inf. to QM",
  115. https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1941-08-23_78_52
  116. - *Editor & Publisher*, 11 Dec 1943: a Mrs. Schwartz made honorary first lieutenant "by order
  117. of Capt. Richard T. Flynn, commanding officer of Headquarters, headquarters company, Fort
  118. Mason", rank held since 23 July 1941,
  119. https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1943-12-11_76_50
  120. - *Army, Navy, Air Force Journal*, 20 Sep 1952, "Army Lists Eligibles to Temp. Colonel": no.
  121. 573 "Flynn, Richard T, QMC",
  122. https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1952-09-20_90_3
  123. - *Army Times*, 24 Jul 1954: "COL. Richard T. Flynn, who last served as assistant IG of the
  124. Korea Communications Zone, has been assigned as acting IG of Fort Lewis. He served in Korea
  125. from February 1953 until May of this year.",
  126. https://archive.org/details/sim_army-times_1954-07-24_14_51
  127. - *Army Times*, 9 Apr 1955: "Col. Richard T. Flynn, post Inspector General" at Fort Lewis. He
  128. took up archery the previous November and set a record for the Tacoma Archery Club,
  129. https://archive.org/details/sim_army-times_1955-04-09_15_35
  130. - [I] I have not found a record that ties the Fort Lewis, Korea and Fort Mason colonel to
  131. service number O-261238 directly. The tie rests on there being one Richard T. Flynn,
  132. colonel, on the retired list, and on the Fort Logan "COL" burial.
  134. **The flag story** (for the life story). The 140th Infantry's official history, in the chapter
  135. "Alsatian Days in Quiet Trenches" (p. 43), prints the 1st Battalion's daily report. Groupe de Combat
  136. I "Balmain" wanted a small American flag "which Company C will cause to float over the house in 'No
  137. Man's Land'", the sniper house known as Remi Farm. The flag went up, and the report came back
  138. signed by the G.C. commander:
  140. > "The Flag Flies. 'Twas a narrow escape. The boys just got on the top of the house, and they must
  141. > have been heard, for Jerry rained machine gun bullets all around them. The flag went up just the
  142. > same." Signed (SGT. R. T. FLYNN.) G. C. I Bis Commander.
  144. Sgt. Joseph Winslow and Cpl. Julius C. Hinkefent put the flag up. Winslow and Cpl. Roy C.
  145. Strange took it down under bombardment when the French relieved them, and both received letters
  146. from the division commander, Gen. Traub, dated 16 Sept 1918. https://archive.org/details/fromdoniphantove00edwa
  148. **Open questions.**
  149. - His Missouri WWI service card (Missouri State Archives Soldiers' Records database; it was not
  150. reachable by script) would give his birth date, wound and discharge.
  151. - Whether "Richard T. Flynn, Jr., M.D." was his son. He was born 1920 in St. Joseph, Mo., took his
  152. MD at Marquette in 1945, and was an obstetrician-gynecologist in Milwaukee and Waukesha County,
  153. Wis. Sources: *Directory of Medical Specialists* 1974-75,
  154. https://archive.org/details/directoryofmedic0000amer ; *American Medical Directory* 1956,
  155. https://archive.org/details/bwb_T3-BRL-425
  156. - [I] He fits as a son: born in St. Joseph a year after the marriage, and a "Jr." But no record
  157. links them. **Possible.**
  159. ### 2. Sister Mary Losa, SNJM (Marguerite Patricia Flynn, 2 Oct 1906 - 13 Dec 1995)
  161. - **Why notable (minor):** Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Marylhurst
  162. College, Oregon. She is listed with her M.A. among the Marylhurst philosophy faculty, "Sister
  163. Mary Losa, SNJM, M.A., Assoc. Prof.", in Archie J. Bahm's directory of American philosophers
  164. (1966). Source: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000arch (a restricted lending
  165. item; read from the search-result text only). Not Wikipedia-notable.
  166. - **Suggested category:** `close`, or leave her out.
  167. - **Shared couple:** William Clifford Flynn and Anna Mary Paulson. She is their child.
  168. - **Relationship to Jerome Dwyer:** maternal aunt.
  169. - **Evidence:**
  170. - [C] The Ancestry tree has "Marquerite Patricia (Sr. Mary Losa)", born 2 Oct 1906, died 13
  171. Dec 1995, Marylhurst, Oregon. The archive's GEDCOM has the same.
  172. - [C] Find a Grave: "Sister Margaret Mary Losa Flynn, SNJM".
  173. - [D] 1910 and 1920 censuses in William C. Flynn's household.
  174. - [I] A religious name is not repeated among the living members of one congregation, so the
  175. Marylhurst professor "Sister Mary Losa, SNJM" is very probably her.
  176. - **Confidence: probable.**
  178. ### Not found: famous descendants of James M. Flynn and Annie Owens
  180. None found. Searched (Part 6): their children John Henry, Thomas Lafayette, Winifred Ann, Maud
  181. Margaret, Bertha G., Paul Ignatius and James F., and the grandchildren through William C.'s ten
  182. other children.
  184. New facts on two of the children:
  186. - **Bertha G. Flynn** married **John H. Gallagher** at Salt Lake City on **29 Apr 1920**.
  187. - Bertha: 38, born Clay Co., Neb., daughter of James M. Flynn and Anna M. Owens ("O. Wens" in
  188. the index).
  189. - John: 44, born Cleveland, Ohio, son of James E. Gallagher and Isabel Roche.
  190. - [D, index] Utah County Marriages, FamilySearch 1:1:KSPM-HWN,
  191. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSPM-HWN (the archive had this as "married 1920
  192. Salt Lake City").
  193. - **James W. Flynn** (1896-1983), Winifred's eldest brother, in 1950 at Kansas City, Mo.:
  194. - 53, born Nebraska, accounting, steel manufacturing;
  195. - wife Ethel M., 52, born Missouri; mother-in-law Molly E. Muehleisen, 75;
  196. - no children in the household.
  197. - [D] 1950 census, FamilySearch 1:1:6FML-LBVQ,
  198. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FML-LBVQ
  200. ---
  202. ## Part 2. James Murray Flynn (1846-1921): material for a life story
  204. The archive already has: born 1846 at Downeyville, Emily Twp.; baptized 1847; enlisted at St.
  205. Louis 16 Oct 1865 aged 18; married Annie Owens 1870; farmer at Fairfield 1880; Indian Wars pension
  206. (application 1917, payment cards 1907-1933, "Army invalid"); "Justice James M. Flynn", candidate
  207. for police judge about 1915; died 11 Mar 1921.
  209. New findings, in date order:
  211. 1. **Pension bills in Congress**:
  212. - **1906 and 1910: possibly him.** Two bills for a James M. Flynn by **Charles Curtis** of
  213. Kansas, later Vice President. Both went to the Committee on Pensions, though Curtis's other
  214. bills that day went to Invalid Pensions:
  215. - H.R. 16326 (March 1906, as Representative), "granting an increase of pension to James M.
  216. Flynn—to the Committee on Pensions", *Congressional Record* vol. 40 (26 Feb - 20 Mar 1906),
  217. https://archive.org/details/sim_congressional-record-proceedings-and-debates_february-26-1906-march-20-1906_40
  218. - S. 6144 (1909-10, as Senator), "Granting an increase of pension to James M. Flynn. Mr.
  219. Curtis; Committee on Pensions", CR index vol. 45,
  220. https://archive.org/details/sim_congressional-record_december-6-1909-june-25-1910_45_index
  221. - [D] The bills exist. [I] **Possible** that he is the same man: the name and committee
  222. match, but Curtis sponsored bills for Kansas constituents, and an "increase" means that
  223. man already had a pension.
  224. - **1912 and 1913: probably him.** **Charles F. Booher**, Democrat, Representative for
  225. Missouri's 4th district (St. Joseph) 1907-1921 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Booher):
  226. - "By Mr. BOOHER: A bill (H. R. 18868) granting a pension to James M. Flynn; to the Committee
  227. on Pensions." House, 27 Jan 1912, *Congressional Record* vol. 48,
  228. https://archive.org/details/sim_congressional-record-proceedings-and-debates_january-18-1912-february-14-1912_48
  229. - He brought it in again in the 63rd Congress (1913) as H.R. 845, "granting a pension to
  230. James M. Flynn; to the Committee on Pensions", https://archive.org/details/us_congress_63
  231. - [D] for the bills. [I] **Probable** that this is him: St. Joseph's own congressman, the
  232. year after "Justice Flynn" is on record in St. Joseph.
  233. - No committee report on any of these was found, so none of them gives his regiment. There is
  234. no sign that any of them passed.
  235. - [C/I] The House Committee on Pensions handled claims for service other than the Civil War,
  236. which fits Regular Army service in 1865-68. In 1917 he applied under the new Indian Wars
  237. service-pension law.
  238. 2. **"Justice Flynn" of St. Joseph, 1911-1913.** [D] newspapers; that the justice is James M. is
  239. **probable**, because the c. 1915 clipping calls him "Justice James M. Flynn".
  240. - **12 June 1911:** he married Miss Carlota Conklin, 20, of Topeka, to Rinyech Oda, a Japanese
  241. peddler of Japanese goods then running a stand at Lake Contrary. Before taking out the
  242. licence, Oda "asked if there was a law against the marriage of a Japanese and white girl."
  243. *Sedalia Democrat*, 13 June 1911, https://archive.org/details/sedalia-democrat-1911-06-13
  244. - **9 Mar 1912:** he married L. Francis Gottschalk, stage manager of Darrell H. Lyall's "At
  245. Sunrise" company, and Josephine H. Wolsey of the same company. *New York Clipper*, 16 Mar
  246. 1912,
  247. https://archive.org/details/per_new-york-clipper_new-york-clipper_1912-03-16_60_5
  248. - **1911:** "John Harnois, clerk in the office of Justice Flynn" called a meeting to found a St.
  249. Joseph stamp collectors' association. *The Philatelic West*, 1911,
  250. https://archive.org/details/philatelicwest1911nebr
  251. - **2 Aug 1913:** Frank Bradbury, 17, arrested at Maryville, was "arraigned before Justice
  252. Flynn" at St. Joseph on an embezzlement charge (quoting the St. Joseph News-Press).
  253. *Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum*, 2 Aug 1913,
  254. https://archive.org/details/maryville-daily-democrat-forum-1913-08-02
  255. 3. **1918: candidate for justice of the peace.** [D] *St. Joseph Observer*.
  256. - The County Clerk's Notice of Primary Election for 6 Aug 1918, **Democratic Ticket**, "For
  257. Justice of the Peace Washington Township (Four to be voted for)": "JAMES M. FLYNN, 1115 Powell
  258. St., St. Joseph, Mo." This gives a new address. Issues of 13, 20 and 27 July and 3 Aug 1918,
  259. e.g. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-07-20/ed-1/?sp=3
  260. - Paid items in the same paper:
  261. > "The ladies say 'encourage the young soldiers by taking care of the old soldiers for the
  262. > young soldier will one day be the old soldier.' Therefore cast your vote for James M.
  263. > Flynn for Justice of the peace."
  265. > "What became of the boy whose mother 'did not raise her boy to be a soldier'? He will be
  266. > twenty-one years old Aug. 6th when he will vote for James M. Flynn for Justice of the peace,
  267. > then he will enlist to help swat the Kaiser."
  269. 27 July 1918, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-07-27/ed-1/?sp=5 ; again 3 Aug
  270. 1918, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-08-03/ed-1/?sp=5
  271. - [I] In wartime 1918 the campaign made his Army service its theme. His grandson Richard was
  272. then in the trenches in France.
  273. 4. **Death and funeral, March 1921.** [D]
  274. - "The funeral of the late Judge James M. Flynn occurred from the Cathedral at 9 a.m. Thursday,
  275. and was very largely attended." *St. Joseph Observer*, 19 Mar 1921,
  276. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1921-03-19/ed-1/?sp=5
  277. - [I] The Thursday after his death on 11 March was **17 March 1921, St. Patrick's Day**. "The
  278. Cathedral" is St. Joseph's Cathedral, St. Joseph. He is styled "Judge".
  279. 5. **Army service of 1865: still open.** What is known, all [D, index]:
  280. - **Enlistment:** FamilySearch 1:1:VRQZ-KLG (Registers of Enlistments, image 409 of digital
  281. folder 004719499) gives only the name, the date (16 Oct 1865), St. Louis and age 18.
  282. - **Pension index:** T318 card, 1:1:KDRY-35W (roll 821613, image 3073), indexed as
  283. "Missouri, 1917", spouse Anna M.
  284. - **Payment card:** M850, 1:1:K64D-4QV (digital folder 004692913, image 320), death date 11
  285. Mar 1921, Anna M. Flynn.
  286. - The record pages open without login but show no unit; the images need a FamilySearch login.
  287. - Virgil D. White's printed *Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926* (1987), which gives
  288. the unit for each veteran, is a restricted lending item on archive.org:
  289. https://archive.org/details/indextoindianwar00whit
  290. - The 1883 *List of Pensioners on the Roll* has no Flynn under Clay or Otoe County, Nebraska.
  291. So he was not yet a pensioner in 1883, if the OCR is complete.
  292. https://archive.org/details/listpensionerso01buregoog
  293. - **To finish:** with a FamilySearch login, read the three images above. The T318 card names
  294. company and regiment, then order the Indian Wars pension file from NARA (RG 15). Don't guess
  295. the regiment: St. Louis recruits of October 1865 went to many regular regiments.
  296. 6. **Missouri death certificate no. 6112 (1921).** Still unread. The Missouri State Archives
  297. database only runs as a scripted form and could not be queried here.
  298. 7. **Unlinked Clay County item, do not attach.** Andreas, *History of the State of Nebraska* (1882),
  299. Clay County, Sutton (part 6): "The first shooting affray that occurred in the town ... Flynn shot
  300. Mullen in the face", saloon partners, about 1871-72.
  301. http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/clay/clay-p6.html
  302. - It is in Sutton, not Fairfield, and gives no given name. [I] **Unproven namesake.**
  304. Two cautions for the archive:
  306. - A different St. Joseph man, **John M. Flynn**, was a grain merchant: president of the Midwest
  307. Grain Co. and of the St. Joseph Grain Club, and the "J. M. Flynn Grain Co." (*St. Joseph
  308. Observer*, 1917-1921; *Northwestern Miller*, 1914 and 1952).
  309. - Any "J. M. Flynn" of St. Joseph in business or grain-trade sources is probably him, not the
  310. Justice.
  311. - One 1914 trade note even calls him "James M. Flynn, grain, St. Joseph"
  312. (https://archive.org/details/sim_northwestern-miller_1914-10-07_100_1).
  313. - A "Joseph J. Flynn", manager of the Horigan Supply Co., died at St. Joseph in April 1921. No
  314. link has been found.
  316. ---
  318. ## Part 3. Other new family detail (William C. Flynn's household)
  320. All from the *St. Joseph Observer*, [D]:
  322. - **The truck and the train.** "Wm. C. Flynn's parcel post automobile was struck by a Burlington
  323. switch engine, at Fifth and Hickory Wednesday morning and demolished. Flynn was not seriously
  324. hurt." 2 Feb 1918, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-02-02/ed-1/?sp=5
  325. - This dates the archive's undated clipping (`newspaper-st-joseph-flynn-truck-hit-by-train`)
  326. to **Wednesday 30 Jan 1918**.
  327. - **The move west.** "W. C. Flynn, a parcel post carrier at the St. Joseph office, left Wednesday
  328. with his family of nine for Portland, Oregon, on a pleasure trip. The party went in two Ford
  329. flivvers." 10 July 1920, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1920-07-10/ed-1/?sp=5
  330. - [I] That was Wednesday 7 July 1920, after the 1920 census. The family was settled in Portland
  331. by 1930.
  332. - Good material for the family story, and for Winifred's: she was 18 at the time.
  333. - "Bernard Flynn, a sixteen year old boy, was arrested Monday for driving a motor car." 3 July
  334. 1920, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1920-07-03/ed-1/?sp=5
  335. - [I] **Possibly** Bernard Francis "Barney" (born 1904/05), but there is no address or
  336. parent's name.
  338. ---
  340. ## Part 4. Small-world connections (not kin)
  342. - **Charles F. Booher** (1848-1921), U.S. Representative from Missouri (Wikipedia). He brought
  343. in the 1912 and 1913 bills to grant James M. Flynn a pension. **Probable** (Part 2, item 1).
  344. - **Charles Curtis** (1860-1936), later 31st Vice President of the United States
  345. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis). He brought in bills in 1906 and 1910 to increase
  346. the pension of a "James M. Flynn". **Possible only**; it may be another man.
  347. - **Bennett Champ Clark** (1890-1954), later U.S. Senator from Missouri
  348. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Champ_Clark). On 4 Aug 1917 he was lieutenant colonel of
  349. the 6th Missouri Infantry, when Richard T. Flynn was a corporal in its Company B. Source:
  350. regimental roster, *From Doniphan to Verdun*. **Documented.**
  352. ---
  354. ## Part 5. Checked and unrelated or unproven
  356. - **Gillian Flynn** (born 1971, Kansas City, Mo.; author of *Gone Girl*;
  357. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Flynn). Her father is Edwin Matthew Flynn, film teacher,
  358. and her mother Judith Ann (Schieber). Winifred's brother James W. Flynn died at Kansas City in
  359. 1983. **No link found:**
  360. - in 1950 James W. and his wife Ethel had no children at home;
  361. - Edwin Matthew Flynn was not found in the 1950 Kansas City census, and his parents are
  362. unknown.
  363. - A namesake in the same city only. **Unproven, not a connection.**
  364. - **"Lt. Col. Herbert L. Flynn"** (O-265235, retired 1 Jan 1962), on the same Army retired lists
  365. as Col. Richard T. He looked like Hubert Leo ("Herbert L." in the Ancestry tree), but he was
  366. Dr. Herbert L. Flynn, born 27 Dec 1901 at Berlin, N.H., a state-school psychiatrist in
  367. Massachusetts and Connecticut. Sources: *Biographical Directory of the American Psychiatric
  368. Association* (1958), https://archive.org/details/lccn_58018042 ; *JAMA*, 22 Dec 1945.
  369. **Unrelated.**
  370. - **"Sister Patricia Ann", registrar** (Education Directory 1957-60). Beulah's Find a Grave name
  371. is "Sister Beulah Patricia Ann Flynn, SNJM", but this registrar was at the **College of Notre
  372. Dame, Belmont, Calif.** (Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur), not Marylhurst.
  373. https://archive.org/details/educationdirecto00unse_7 . **Unrelated.** Nothing was found on
  374. Sister Beulah herself.
  375. - **Other Richard T. Flynns in WWII-1950s sources.** M/Sgt. Richard T. Flynn, 19th Infantry, a
  376. Korean War prisoner of war, of Passaic, N.J.; a Richard T. Flynn of the Hearst advertising
  377. service, Detroit. **Unrelated** (different places, ranks and careers).
  378. - **Louis E. Flynn, Navy** (NAS Memphis, 1950; *Army and Navy Journal*). No link to Louis Edward
  379. Flynn (1910-2000) of Oregon. **Unproven.**
  380. - **"Hubert L. Flynn"**, pharmacist, Winston-Salem, N.C. **Unrelated.** A "Flynn Hubert L" in
  381. *Polk's Portland city directory* 1957 and 1959 is probably Winifred's brother, but nothing
  382. notable.
  383. - **Bertha Flynn** of Humboldt, Kansas, Kansas State Agricultural College 1916-19. **Unrelated**
  384. (the family's Bertha G. was 34-37 then and married in Utah in 1920).
  385. - **Maud Flynn, B.Sc.**, Ohio State, and "Miss Maud Flynn" of a Catholic reading circle, 1924.
  386. Both are Columbus, Ohio. **Unrelated.**
  387. - **Thomas Flynn** (c. 1820-1895) of Emily Township, Ontario, wife Hanora Herlihy of Mallow (WikiTree
  388. Flynn-4604, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Flynn-4604). He is in the same township as John Flynn
  389. and Ann Murray, but no parents are given. This is a lead for the Canadian side, which is outside
  390. this report. **Unproven.**
  391. - **Henry Owens and Leah.** Nothing found: the name is too common for the free full-text sources,
  392. and there are no Nebraska items with linking detail.
  393. - **Thomas Flynn**, born 1874 Nebraska, living in Los Angeles in 1950 (1950 census index). Could
  394. be Thomas Lafayette Flynn, but it is unchecked and there is nothing notable.
  396. ---
  398. ## Part 6. What was searched, and what could not be reached
  400. Searched:
  402. - **Internet Archive full text** (newspapers, journals, directories, rosters, government
  403. serials):
  404. - every sibling of Winifred by name and variants;
  405. - James M. / J. M. / "Justice" / "Judge" Flynn with St. Joseph;
  406. - "Indian war", the pension bills and their numbers;
  407. - Richard T. Flynn in all forms;
  408. - Sister Mary Losa and other SNJM names;
  409. - Owens in Otoe County.
  410. - **Library of Congress, Chronicling America**: the *St. Joseph Observer* (sn90061457; digitized
  411. pages so far found only for 1916-1922). Every page with "Flynn" was read: 40 pages.
  412. - **Army registers and journals**: *Official Army Register* (1961-1967), *Army Navy Journal*,
  413. *Army Times*.
  414. - **Congressional Record** volumes and indexes, 1903-1913.
  415. - **FamilySearch**: individual record pages, and the openly searchable 1950 census.
  416. - **Cemetery data**: interment.net (Fort Logan).
  417. - **Kansas Collection**: Andreas (1882), Clay County, all 13 parts.
  418. - **Wikipedia**: List of people from St. Joseph, Missouri; Gillian Flynn; Charles F. Booher.
  419. - **WikiTree API**: James, William C. and Winifred Flynn, and Flynns of Emily and St. Joseph.
  420. None of the family are on WikiTree.
  421. - **WebSearch**: obituaries for Bernard (2003), Pauline Lemarte (1999), Hubert (1998) and Louis
  422. (2000). Nothing was found online. Their Oregonian obituaries would be in NewsBank or the
  423. Multnomah County Library.
  425. Not reachable from here:
  427. - Find a Grave and Ancestry (403).
  428. - FamilySearch images, tree, and searches outside the 1950 census (login needed).
  429. - Fold3 (403).
  430. - HathiTrust full-text search (Cloudflare block).
  431. - Missouri State Archives Soldiers' Records and death certificate databases (scripted forms only).
  432. - Restricted archive.org books: Virgil White's *Indian Wars* index; the 1966 philosophers'
  433. directory, beyond the snippet.
  435. Next steps, in order of value:
  437. 1. The T318 Indian Wars pension index card and the M850 card images for James M. Flynn
  438. (FamilySearch, login). Then the NARA pension file. These give the regiment and campaigns.
  439. 2. James M. Flynn's Missouri death certificate 6112 (1921), free at Missouri Digital Heritage.
  440. Also his obituary in the *St. Joseph News-Press* or *Gazette* of 12-17 March 1921.
  441. 3. Richard T. Flynn's Missouri WWI service card (Missouri Digital Heritage, Soldiers' Records).
  442. Also his obituary (*Denver Post* or *Rocky Mountain News*, May 1996) for his children,
  443. Richard Jr. among them.
  444. 4. The 1900, 1910 and 1920 census entries for James M. and Annie Flynn: where was he in 1906-1910
  445. (Kansas or St. Joseph)? This settles whether the Curtis bills were his.
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