Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. BLUIT FLENER was born in Butler County, Ky., January 3, 1848, and is one of twins born to Andrew J. and Easter J. (Romans) Flener, both of whom were natives of Butler County, and of German and Irish descent respectively. Andrew J. Flener was educated and married in his native county of Butler, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life. He was associated with the Home Guards on various occasions during the late civil war, and was a stanch Union man. His death occurred March 14, 1883, in his sixty-ninth year. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he officiated as exhorter. Bluit Flener is a twin brother of Worth Flener; received a fair common school education in youth, and was employed on his father's farm until he was twenty-four years old. His father then gave him 123 acres of unimproved land near the old homestead in Flenersville Precinct, Butler County, where he has since improved the farm, upon which he now resides. The farm is now in a fair state of cultivation. Mr. Flener was married, December 11, 1873, to Paulina Gary, a native of Grayson County, Ky. Two sons and three daughters have blessed their union, viz.: John J., Idina, Baliss G., Jannie and Minnie. In politics Mr. Flener is a Republican. Flener Romans Gary = Grayson-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/flener.b.txt