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Captain John Flood |
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| Ed is descended from Captain
John Flood who, according to family tradition, retired from the British Navy
and moved his family from England, to the state Virginia, in America. He was
born to 1694, and was 60 years old, before his first child was born. His
first wife was a Ms. Davis from Glouschester Co., Virginia. She bore him
five children. Among them were twins William and Mary, named for the King
and Queen of England. William died in the Revolutionary War and Mary also
died.
John's first wife was dead by 1762, when he was married for the second time, to his housekeeper, Agnes Payne. He was age of 68 at the time of his second marriage. He had nine children by his second marriage, including another set of twins. This set of twins was also named William and Mary. William is Ed's direct ancestor. He married Mary Jones, a member of the Virginia Lee family which included General Robert E. Lee and President Zachary Taylor, and moved to Shelby County, Kentucky. His twin sister, Mary Payne Flood, married Robert Moseley and moved to Logan County, Kentucky.The Flood also includes as a member, Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957), the pioneer aviator and polar explorer. John and one of his wives were buried on the grounds of the Buckingham Baptist Church, Buckingham County, Virginia. On the north wall of the church at Gold Hill, a few miles north of Dillwyn, Virginia, is a bronze plaque. It refers to an adjoining room which was a later addition to the church. The plaque reads: THIS ROOM WAS CONSTRUCTED |
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William Flood |
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William Flood was the son of Captain John Flood and his second wife, Agnes Payne. William's twin sister, Mary Payne Flood, married Robert Moseley and moved to Logan Co., KY. William and his wife, Mary Jones Flood, are buried in a small family cemetery near Cropper, Kentucky in Shelby County. From Cropper, drive south on the Flood Road for 7/10 mile. At exactly 7/10ths a mile from Cropper there is an old abandoned L&N Railroad bed on the left. It looks like a farm road, but you can tell it is a railroad bed by the coal in the path. Take the railroad bed back 4/10ths mile. You can drive 2/10ths. At 2/10ths the railroad bed (at the time I visited) is blocked off by a fence. You can follow the field for another 2/10ths mile to a small grove of trees. The cemetery is fenced in. Emaline Ogden Flood, daughter-in-law of William and Mary and there son, Joseph Lee Flood’s second wife, is also buried there. |
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| Much of the information on this page came from Mrs. Beth Flood, Laguna Hills, CA and Mr. Robert Flood, Allen, Texas. | |||||||||||||||
