Obituary: Melvina Flynt, 24 May 1896 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 11 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 16, 1896, p. 7, c. 3 FLINT.—Mrs. Melvina Flint (nee Oglesby) was born in Hardin County, Tennessee, June, 1839; professed religion and joined the Methodist Church when eleven years old. She then moved with her parents to Arkansas. She was married to Mr. R. P. Flint February 15, 1855; came to Texas in 1875. She was the mother of four children, three of whom survive her. She was greatly blessed in having a rich and powerful religious experience. Through all the years since her conversion she has lived a consistent Christian life, always ready to help the distressed and suffering, whether rich or poor. She was an excellent neighbor, a devoted wife and mother, and an ardent lover of God and the Church. Her last moments were gloriously triumphant. Her pastor, J. M. McCARTER ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 10, 1897, p. 14, c. 1 FLYNT.—Melvina Flynt was born June, 1839; professed religion and joined the C. P. Church at eleven years of age; was married to R. P. Flynt in 1855; was the mother of four children—one of whom preceded her to the glory world. When she came to Texas, some fifteen years a go, she united with the M. E. Church, South, at old Union Springs, now in the bounds of the White House Circuit, where she lived and labored for God and humanity until May 24, 1896. Then she was not, for God took her to himself. It was the privilege of the writer to be her pastor for six years, and it was never my privilege to know a truer or more faithful and devoted Christian woman. But the whole Church and community feel their great loss; but our loss is her gain; for to her to live was Christ, and to her to die was gain. Let all meet her. Farewell, Sister Flynt. T. T. BOOTH