Laurens-Greene County GaArchives Biographies.....Flynt, Roger Dyer 1881 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 790-791

   ROGER DYER FLYNT. The year 1902 saw Roger Dyer Flynt graduated from the law
department of his alma mater, and the same year saw his establishment in
practice in the city of Dublin, Georgia, where he associated himself in a
partnership with L. R. Milton, under the firm name of Flynt & Milton.

   Born on August 2, 1881, at Union Point, Greene county, Georgia, Roger Dyer
Flynt is the son of William T. and Lilla (Moore) Flynt. The father was born on
October 5, 1850, and the mother on May 26, 1856; she died the day before Easter
Sunday, 1912. William T. Flynt is still living and enjoying life in the freedom
from care in his declining years. They were natives of Taliaferro and Greene
counties, respectively, and the father, who was a farmer during many years of
his life, is now postmaster at Sharon, Georgia. He is a man of prominence in his
section of the state, and served two terms in the state senate in the years
1890-91 and 1896-97. His service was for the nineteenth senatorial district,
comprising the counties of Taliaferro, Warren and Greene. He now resides in
Taliaferro county, which has always been his home, and where their son, the
subject of this review, lived until he was twenty years of age.

   Roger D. Flynt attended the country schools of his home community as a boy,
later was entered at the Stephens high school at Crawfordville, Georgia, the
same having been named for Alexander H. Stephens, and his old home being still
used for the home of the teachers. In Mercer University, at Macon, Georgia, he
studied law, and was duly graduated in 1902. Almost immediately thereafter he
came to Dublin and formed a partnership with Mr. Milton, as previously stated,
but their association continued only a short time. The next combination of which
he was a member was that of Williams, Flynt & Blackshier. In 1905 Mr. Flynt
withdrew from the firm and went to Crawfordville, where he edited the Advocate,
Democratic, for a year, during 1906, His next entry into the law was at Dallas,
Georgia, in partnership with a Mr. Whitworth. In that city he also did
considerable newspaper work, finding himself with a peculiar talent for the work
and his services always in demand, his connection with newspaper business in
Dallas being on the New Era. In 1908 he returned to Dublin, here forming an
association with M. H. Blackshier, which endured for a year, and he then joined
forces with Judge Adams, and later became the partner of G. H. Williams, with
whom he is now connected.

   Mr. Flynt is a director of the Carnegie library of Dublin, as well as
secretary and treasurer of the library. He is a member of the Baptist church. On
October 10, 1912, he married Miss Nellie Louise Johnston, daughter of John G.
Johnston, a business man of Dexter, Georgia. She is a graduate of the state
normal school of Athens, Georgia.

   Mr. Flynt is one of the seven children of his parents, all of whom are
living. Fitzhugh C., the eldest, is a civil engineer of Nashville, Tennessee;
Albert H. is principal of the school of Carlton, Georgia; Roger D. was the third
born; Max S. lives in Atlanta, Georgia; Roy A. is assistant civil engineer of
the L. & N. R. R. at Pensacola, Florida; Mabel and Donald are at home with the
parents, and are students in the public schools. Mr. Flynt's maternal
grandfather, Dr. W. A. Moore, was a physician who practiced a number of years at
Union Point, Greene county, Georgia, and at Milledgeville, Georgia.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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