Ewe and Ruthie - Flinn Family History

02/01/2026

On this day, February 1, 1898, Alasanna Robinson Flinn dies.

Some sources have Alasanna as born in 1810, in Kentucky. She is Vincent Flinn's only wife and the matriarch of our line in Auglaize County. She and Vincent married on the 29th of April 1833, in Hamilton County OH. Together they would have 9 living children; Howard, Alonzo, Edward, Matilda, twins Martha and Mary, Vincent, Oliver and Elbert.

Alasana is buried in the Chief Blackhoof Memorial Park, aka - Saint Johns Cemetery, in St Johns Ohio.

02/01/2026

Happy St. Brigid’s Day - Lá Fhéile Bríde!

Today we celebrate Ireland’s only female patron saint. St Brigid’s Day was one of the ‘quarter days’ celebrated by our ancestors and is almost halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. These days marked a transition from one season to the next. St Brigid’s Day (February 1) signalled the beginning of spring.

02/01/2026

Miss Ruthie and I in attendance to hear Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard law professor, will give the keynote address at the America250-Ohio Commission conference New Perspectives on the Northwest Ordinance.

She will talk about the meaning of the Northwest Ordinance and the US at 250. Gordon-Reed is noted for transforming scholarship on Thomas Jefferson, particularly regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.

01/30/2026

A place for everything and everything in its place. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE.

01/28/2026

A Heavenly high-five to Uncle Oliver… to Uncle Eugene… to Uncle Mick… to every hand that took pen to paper and made this family Bible what it is. It’s both a wealth of information and a loving example of our family.

01/28/2026

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust and N**i persecution, and also in more recent genocides around the world.

This evening at 8pm, light a candle to remember all those murdered for who they were, and stand against prejudice and hatred today. 🕯️


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01/27/2026

For most of Ohio’s kids it’s ‘back to school’ today, after the excessive snow canceled classes.

Pictured here in Miss Cannon, 3rd grade class, (1958 or 1959) - Little Miss Milly Flinn, right of the teacher.

01/26/2026

❄️ Level 3 snow emergency for Auglaize, Allen, Franklin - really most of Ohio. 🥶 If it’s illegal to drive we might as well hunker down with the ACHS for this online lecture.

Monday, January 26, 7 pm, on ACHS FB page.

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The historical societies of the County will present “Marietta, Birthplace of the Northwest Territory” as a Facebook Live program on Monday, January 26, 7 pm, on this FB page. The presenter will be Emily O’Connor, Northwest Territory Museum Society, Campus Martius, and Ohio River Museums. This program examines Fort Harmar, Campus Martius, and Rufus Putnam’s vision for western settlement, while also addressing the conflict and Native displacement that shaped the region. It is a story of opportunity, struggle, and nation-building on the early American frontier.

The historical societies of the County will present “Marietta, Birthplace of the Northwest Territory” as a Facebook Live program on Monday, January 26, 7 pm, on this FB page. The presenter will be Emily O’Connor, Northwest Territory Museum Society, Campus Martius, and Ohio River Museums. This program examines Fort Harmar, Campus Martius, and Rufus Putnam’s vision for western settlement, while also addressing the conflict and Native displacement that shaped the region. It is a story of opportunity, struggle, and nation-building on the early American frontier.
Join us here next Monday for another great America 250 adventure!

01/25/2026

Muster Roll of James Flinn's Company of Militia Volunteers from the Northwest Territory of the Ohio River, January 25th 1792 to the 27th inclusive. We found this particular record in an application for First Families of Hamilton County.

01/25/2026

BREAKING NEWS: ❄️ There will be no farms closed due to the winter storm.

Each and every farmer will be out in the blistery cold, blowing wind, ice, and heavy snow fall tending to their livestock. They will be praying for machinery to work and non-frozen water pipes. If you know or LOVE a farmer, say a prayer for their safety!

Pictured below: Robert Flinn Farm

01/24/2026

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book, that string of confused alien ciphers, shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened.
You became, irrevocably, a reader.
~ Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading