First Generation  

1. George Flynn was born about 1850 and died after 1874.

General Notes: Caldwell Co., KY History, Turner Publishing Co., Paducah, KY.

George Flinn served as a guide from the the Cumberland to the "Choctaw Nation." He received payment at the rate of one dollar per day. On February 1784, Flinn gave a receipt in the amount of 15 pounds, six shillings for having served as a guide for John Reid to the Chickasaw Nation. By the next year it appears that his activiities had moved further down the Cumberland for in August, 1785, he entered a claim at the Land Office for 1000 acres of land on Eddy Creek.

An interesting promissory note was executed by Robert Simpson to Robert Mossely that bore a date of Sept. 12, 1792, was attested to by George Flinn and Benjamin Davis. For the advancement of fourteen pounds (English Sterling), Simpson promised to deliver to Robert Mossely or his agent "good Market Buffalow Beef, free of Boone (bone) of value equal to the money advance."This buffalo beef was to be delivered to "Red Banks on the Ohio(present site of Henderson, KY)or any other place that he (sic, Mossely) or his should salt beef on the Banks of said river, any aney time in the ensuing fawl before the fawl hunt is over."

It is believed that Simpson was associated with Flinn as a professional hunter during the 1792 fall hunting season and that their activities were concentrated in the Tradwater River Valley. Knowledge of Flinn's long and very early associations with the Tradewater region was so widely recognized that J. Russell's 1795 Map of the State of Kentucky designated the Tradewater River as "Flinn's Creek." A Tradewater tributary, Flinn's Fork perpetuates the name of this famous Tradewater Valley frontiersman. It is believed that George Flinn also maintained a hunting camp at the sulphur lick that is located on the East Fork of Flinn's Fork and is now known as the Gum Lic. No one knows how long George Flinn lived on and hunted the Tradewater Valley prior to the settlement of Caldwell Co., but it is felt that it was for at least a decade.

George Flinn died in Livingston Co.,KY in 1799 and the inventory of his estate of his estate lists a "great boat." It is believed that the old frontiersman established a ferry during the early 1790's on the Ohio immediately below the mouth of the Tradewater River. He probably operated the ferry at the point intermittently while not hunting. The sons of the old frontiersman operated a ferry at this point after their father's death.

George married Hester Ann Dawson about 1883 in Carter County, KY. Hester was born on 14 Nov 1852 in Williams Tunnel Creek, Carter County, KY.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 2 M    i. John Flynn was born on 22 Jun 1874 in Greenup County, KY, died on 30 Aug 1912 in Carter County, KY at age 38, and was buried on 31 Aug 1912 in Willard, Carter County, KY.

  Second Generation  

2. John Flynn was born on 22 Jun 1874 in Greenup County, KY, died on 30 Aug 1912 in Carter County, KY at age 38, and was buried on 31 Aug 1912 in Willard, Carter County, KY.

John married Sarah Messer, daughter of William Messer and Ruth GOLLIHUE, on 23 Dec 1895 in Carter County, KY. Sarah was born in Mar 1880 in Huff's Run, KY.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 3 F    i. Bradie Flynn was born on 22 May 1901 in Carter County, KY and died in May 1996 in Hitchens, KY at age 95.

  Third Generation  

3. Bradie Flynn was born on 22 May 1901 in Carter County, KY and died in May 1996 in Hitchens, KY at age 95.

Bradie married Homer Tussey, son of John Rile Tussey and Mary Junetta (Polly) McGuire, on 16 Jan 1919 in Enterprise Baptish Church, Hitchens, KY. Homer was born on 5 Mar 1899 in Huff's Run, KY, died on 22 Nov 1965 in Ashland, KY at age 66, and was buried in Hall Cemetery.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 4 F    i. Gladys Susan Tussey was born on 16 Jun 1928 in Hitchens, KY, died on 7 Apr 1983 in Grayson, KY at age 54, and was buried in Carter County Memory Gardens, Grayson, KY.

  Fourth Generation  

4. Gladys Susan Tussey was born on 16 Jun 1928 in Hitchens, KY, died on 7 Apr 1983 in Grayson, KY at age 54, and was buried in Carter County Memory Gardens, Grayson, KY.

Gladys married John Chester Knipp, son of William Jefferson Knipp and Lydia Susan Barker, on 13 Sep 1946 in Greenup, KY. John was born on 22 May 1919 in Sophia, KY, died on 22 May 1973 in Ashland, KY at age 54, and was buried in Carter County Memory Gardens, Grayson, KY.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 5 F    i. Rosa Belle Knipp was born on 11 Mar 1951 in Sophia, KY.

+ 6 M    ii. William Homer Knipp was born on 7 Mar 1947 in Hitchens, KY.

   7 M    iii. Donald Ray Knipp was born on 7 Apr 1948 in Clifty Creek, KY and died in Apr 1996 in Lexington, KY at age 48.

   8 M    iv. Thomas Jefferson Knipp was born on 23 Mar 1953 in Clifty Creek, KY and died on 7 May 1997 in Ashland, KY at age 44.

  Fifth Generation  

5. Rosa Belle Knipp was born on 11 Mar 1951 in Sophia, KY.

General Notes: Published genealogy and historical notes to Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 2005

The Mixing Pool: An In-Depth Analysis of Appalachian Genealogy

Rosa married Paul Richard Lester, son of Arthur Fleming Lester and America Corinne Mounts, on 19 Sep 1970 in Harman, VA. Paul was born on 10 Jul 1946 in Harman, VA.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 9 F    i. Lydia Kathryn Lester was born on 11 Jun 1973 in Richlands, VA.

+ 10 M    ii. Paul Richard Lester II was born on 6 Sep 1976 in Pikeville, KY.

Rosa next married Paul Richard Lester, son of Arthur Fleming Lester and America Corinne Mounts, on 19 Sep 1970 in Harman, VA. Paul was born on 10 Jul 1946 in Harman, VA.

6. William Homer Knipp was born on 7 Mar 1947 in Hitchens, KY.

General Notes: William abandoned his family in 1982.

Angela Combs Knipp remarried to Roy Chipman in Wetumpka AL.

All of William's children took the name Chipman when they were adopted 29 June 1988 by Roy Chipman.

William married Angela Combs on 6 Jun 1970 in Big Stone Gap, VA. The marriage ended in Divorce in Oct 1982. Angela was born in 1951 in Neon, KY.

Children from this marriage were:

   11 F    i. Jeanie Sue (Knipp) Chipman was born on 4 May 1971 in Ironton, OH.

   12 F    ii. Hester Knipp was born on 15 Jul 1973 in Mansfield, OH, died on 16 Jul 1973 in Mansfield, OH, and was buried in Mansfield, OH.

   13 M    iii. William Homer (Knipp, Jr.) Chipman was born on 15 Feb 1975 in Mansfield, OH.

William married Paula Michelle Harris on 23 May 1998 in Millbrook, AL.

William next married Sharon Unknown after 1982 in Alabama.

The child from this marriage was:

   14 F    i. Gloria Knipp was born about 1985.

  Sixth Generation

9. Lydia Kathryn Lester was born on 11 Jun 1973 in Richlands, VA.

Lydia married Gregory Alan Holsapple, son of Gene Holsapple and Dorothy Shifflett, in May 1996 in Charlottesville, VA. Gregory was born in Albemarle County, VA.

Children from this marriage were:

   15 F    i. Darien Jade Holsapple was born in Oct 1999 in Charlottesville, VA.

   16 M    ii. Gregory Adam Holsapple was born on 10 Mar 2001 in Charlottesville, VA.

10. Paul Richard Lester II was born on 6 Sep 1976 in Pikeville, KY.

Paul married Tonia Lynn Johnson, daughter of William Anderson "Andy" Johnson and Patty PUGH, on 13 Jul 1996 in Afton, VA. Tonia was born on 14 May 1978 in Richmond, VA.

Children from this marriage were:

   17 M    i. Thomas Richard Lester was born on 15 Jan 1996 in Charlottesville, VA.

   18 F    ii. Kaitlyn Nichole Lester was born on 13 Oct 1999.

   19 F    iii. Jessica Lynn Martin Lester was born on 3 Nov 1993 in Charlottesville, VA.