Hickman County, KY - Bios: Flatt, Robert Burt Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 14 Dec 1999 ************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************* Robert Burk FLATT 3898, Hickman Co. Surname: Flatt, Bynum, Weaver, Frost, Pirtle, Harris, Morris, Moss, McCullum Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 39-41. Hickman Co. Robert Burk Flatt, one of Hickman county's best and most favorably known lawyers and politicians, is a native of this county. His father, the Rev. James Madison Flatt, now nearly eighty years of age and residing on a farm some three miles south of Clinton, has for years been a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, contemporary with Finley Bynum, Simon Weaver, Wade Frost, James Pirtle, W.C. Harris and other noted divines conspicuous in building up Methodism in Western Kentucky and Tennessee. Rev. Flatt was born in middle Tennessee, and in early life entered the ministry. He was among the pioneer Methodist ministers of western Kentucky and Tennessee. His wife was Margaret Isabelle Morris, a native of Alabama, and a lady of sterling qualities of heart and mind, a faithful wife and devoted mother, and, like the good minister, a happy and consistent Christian. Nine children were born to them, of whom two daughters and three sons are now living and four sons are deceased, three of whom died in infancy, and one at the age of forty-two years. The father of this family is a self-educated man and in politics has been a life-long Democrat. Robert Burk Flatt was reared upon the farm, attending first the country schools, and there he laid a firm foundation for an education, which was completed by a three years' course in Marvin College, of Clinton, Kentucky. Under the Hon. N.P. Moss, of Clinton, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1895. He has risen rapidly in his profession, and has always been an active Democrat in politics. He is the present city attorney for Clinton, and by appointment is acting county attorney. Mr. Flatt is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and is a lawyer of no mean ability. On December 22, 1900, Mr. Flatt was married to Miss Anna McCullum of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, who is a daughter of Dr. J. A. McCullum, an eminent physician and surgeon of Arkansas. One daughter, Elizabeth, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Flatt.