Re: Robert Elliot Flickinger and Mary Ann Flickinger
FLICKINGER, BRACKBILL, SAYLOR
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Robert Elliot Flickinger and Mary Ann Flickinger (Forrest Brackbill)
Date: 1/24/2011 at 22:09:56
Robert E. Flickinger
December 3, 1945 -- May 1, 1937Mary Ann (Brackbill) Flickinger
February 4, 1941 -- December 4, 1932*********************************
Author of Pocahontas County History Dies
Funeral services for Rev. Robert Flickinger, one of the oldest and best known former residents of Pocahontas county were held at Rockwell City Tuesday of last week, Death came to the clergyman at his home there on Saturday, May 1st, at the age of 92. Rev. Flickinger was best known, as the author of the history of Pocahontas county, published in 1904. It is on the bookshelves of many homes in the county. Mr. Flickinger was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Fonda from 1886 to 1902.
Laurens Sun - Laurens, Iowa
Thursday, May 13, 1937******************************************
Robert Elliott FlickingerBIOGRAPHICAL INFO:
Flickinger, Rev. Robert Elliott
Teacher, Minister, and Writer
Robert Elliott Flickinger was born December 3, 1845, the oldest son of Major Daniel and Julia Ann Saylor Flickinger and a great grandson of John and Elizabeth Hench Rice. He grew up on the family farm at Port Royal and taught school for a number of years. During one interval he served as administrator of his father's estate, taught school during the daytime, and attended two nights a week Airy View Academy under the instruction of David Wilson, Ph.D. He was delayed in entering college because of the death of his mother and read law for two years. On counsel from Prof. Wilson and the Rev. G. F. Hays of Washington and Jefferson College, he decided to study for the ministry. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson with a bachelor of arts degree in 1875, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary with a bachelor of divinity in 1878.
On June 5, 1879, he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister and installed as pastor of Doe Run Church, Chester County, where he served until 1882. From 1882 to 1886 he was pastor at Walnut and Marne, Iowa; from 1886 to 1902 at Fonda, Iowa; and at Gilmore City, Plover, and Calvary, Iowa, from 1902 to 1904. Then he served both as pastor of the Valliant, Oklahoma, Oak Hill Church and as superintendent of Oak Hill Academy from 1904 to 1912. During his ministerial career he was the recipient of many tributes from his parishioners and community officials.
During his career he was active in building a number of church buildings, notably the church at Fonda, the first Presbyterian church in Pocahontas County. He was especially active in temperance affairs. He was the author of a number of publications: "Approved Fruits Southern Oklahoma", "The Choctau Freeman", "The Bible in the Public School", "Pioneer History of Pocahontas County", and the notable "Flickinger Family History", published in 1927.
An injury that brought on deafness led to his retirement. He made his home in his latter years at Rockwell City, Iowa.
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