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 ARTIN FLENNER, a well-known and
highly respected citizen of Ashmore Township, has a good farm of 200 acres on section 28, and is one of the important factors in the agricultural interests of Central Illinois. He comes of an excellent family, being the
youngest son of Isaac and Hopy A. (Hollingsworth) Flenner. Isaac Flenner was born in Butler
County, Feb. 25, 1825, and was the son of Daniel
and Hannah (Andrews) Flenner, natives respectively of Maryland and Ohio, the latter a descendant of an old Pennsylvania family. Daniel Flenner emigrated from his native State to Ohio in
1809, during its early settlement. He served in
the War of 1812, and was a prominent citizen,
holding many offices of trust in his county. Isaac Flenner was reared in his native State, and came to Central Illinois in 1856, his father also coming to Clark County at the same time. The former purchased 200 acres of land and engaged quite extensively in farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of thoroughbred Short-horn cattle and Berkshire hogs. He built up one of the finest homesteads in Coles Comity, and being a man of rare intelligence and cultivated tastes, erected a beautiful residence and surrounded it with evergreen shrubbery and other choice trees. In the rear was one of the finest fruit orchards in that section and the homestead, standing upon a rise of ground, commanded a fine view of the surrounding country. After a life of usefulness and honor, during which by his upright course and kindly disposition he had made hosts of friends, Isaac Flenner was gathered home to his fathers on the 6th of June, 1886, mourned by his family and the entire community. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and contributed liberal!}- and cheerfully to every enterprise calculated for the moral and intellectual advancement of the people about him. Isaac Flenner was first married, Sept. 30, 1847, to Miss Rachel A. Hughes, who was a native of Maryland, but removed with her parents in early childhood to Butler County, Ohio. Of her union with Isaac Flenner there were born two children, of whom only one, Albert W., is living. This lady died in 1852, in Ohio. The second wife of Mr. Flenner was a native of Illinois, and was married to him on the 12th of January, 1858. The one child of this union was Martin, of our sketch. Mrs. Flenner is still living and continues on the homestead which is now managed by her son, our subject. The remains of Isaac Flenner were laid to rest in the cemetery at Ashmore, and a fine monument erected by his wife and son marks the spot where rests all that is mortal of the kind husband and father, and the man who in all the walks of life was faithful to his duties. Mr. V. was a stanch Republican, politically, and at the time of his death Vice President of Coles County Agricultural Association. Martin Flenner was born on the homestead which he now occupies, Jan. 27, 1859. He received a good education, and early in life was made acquainted with the various employments of the farm, being an apt scholar under the excellent instruction of his father. Since the death of the latter he has kept up the reputation of the estate in a worthy manner, and for years has cheerfully labored with his parents to build up and beautify the homestead. He has been the worthy son of most excellent parents, and has profited well from his early teachings and the example so constantly set before him. |
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