Ollie Benjamin Flint

Male4 August 1907–17 June 1979

Brief Life History of Ollie Benjamin

When Ollie Benjamin Flint was born on 4 August 1907, in Lincoln, Georgia, United States, his father, Benjamin Lafayette Flint, was 26 and his mother, Ruth Fortson Steed, was 22. He married Ruby Glenn on 23 June 1927, in Hardee, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States in 1971 and Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, United States in 1979. He died on 17 June 1979, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Charity United Methodist Cemetery, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ollie Benjamin Flint
1907–1979
Ruby Glenn
1910–1997
Marriage: 23 June 1927
Frances Inez Flint
1930–

Sources (14)

  • Ollie B Flint, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Ollie Benjamin Flint, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Ollie Benjamin Flint, "Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 June 1927Hardee, Florida, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed

    Age 1

    Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.

    1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

    Age 10

    Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

    1927

    Age 20

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    English and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint (from Old and Middle English, Low German flint), or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual, metaphorically as hard as flint.

    Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.

    Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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