Samuel C. Flinders 1859 - 1932

FLINDERS, DEK, HAWLEY, BROADSTREET, YOUDE, POWELL, SALZKORN, INNES, GILBERT, JALAS

Posted By: Nicki <nickiflinders@hotmail.com>
Date: 2/8/2008 at 19:11:15

S.C. Flinders Passes Away
Death of Prominent Citizen of Sutherland Came Suddenly Sunday Evening

A friend of man is dead. The cheerful greeting and smiling face of Sam Flinders will be heard and seen no more. Death came suddenly on Sunday to take him away.

Few men have radiated more vigor and enthusiasm than Mr. Flinders, and a glorious tribute was paid to him by Rev. George Gilbert of Peterson, who preached the funeral service at the Methodist church Wednesday morning. It was more a visit with his listeners than a sermon, for Rev. Gilbert had been a close neighbor for many years of the man over whose bier he spoke. He compared the life of the departed with the work of a sculptor who chips the finished product from rough rock, piece by piece. Seventy-two years, it took, he said, before the Maker deemed that work ended and called his servant.

No man in the community was better known than Mr. Flinders and few have longer been an active part in it. He came here in 1883 and farmed for many years south of Sutherland before coming to town. Even after he had retired, there was no actual retirement, for Mr. Flinders continued to hustle about and often put in the hardest day's work.

The editor of The Courier is but one among a multitude who regrets his passing, for there was quality in Mr. Flinders personality that attached itself to those who met him day to day.

The pallbearer at his funeral were Guy Youde, Raymond Powell, George Salzkorn, John Innes, Sherman Gilbert and August Jalas. Interment was in Waterman cemetery.

1859 -- S.C. Flinders -- 1932
Samuel Challand Flinders was born December 3, 1859 in East Bridgeport, Nottinghamshire, England, and died at his home in Sutherland, Iowa Nov. 13, 1932, having reached the age of 72 years, 11 months, and 10 days.

In the summer of 1865, he with his parents, Maria and Henry Flinders, came to America locating in Shabbona, Illinois, where they remained for a period of 7 years, then moved to a farm in Webster county, Iowa. In 1883, with a brother John Flinders and wife, he came to O'Brien county, locating on his homestead south of Sutherland. In 1918 he moved to the town of Sutherland, where he resided until his death.

When a child he was baptized in the Episcopal Church of England, and always a liberal supporter of the former Hyland church south of Sutherland.

On October 20, 1886 he was united in marriage to Mary Dek and to his union three children were born; a daughter, Verla May, who preceded her father in death, and two sons.

His immediate family consisted of two brothers and four sisters, only one of which survives, Mrs. Mary E. Hawley, of Eugene, Oregon.

In 1912 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Azoa Broadstreeet.

He leaves to mourn his death, his widow, two sons, Arthur C. of San Antonio, Texas, and Vernon S. of Sutherland, and three grandchildren, Marilyn Joan, James Arthur, and Arthur Challand Flinders.

Sutherland Courier

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