John Ezekiel Lynn, Biography; Carroll County, VA ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.org *********************************************************************** Bios: John Ezekiel Lynn, son of Michael Lynn, Loudoun County, VA and Hannah McLuin, (last name previously unknown) . Transcribed from his obituary, Carroll County, MO, 27 Dec 1926, newspaper unknown. Copyright @ 2000 by Patt Woods. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. "JOHN E. LYNN DIED AT HALE Remains of Well Known Carroll Countian Was Brought Here for Burial, Sunday AŁternoon John E. Lynn, a well known and prominent Carroll countian, died at his home in Hale. Saturday morning at 5 o'clock. He had been critically ill for the past three weeks and the death was not unexpected altho the greatest medical care had been administered. Funeral services in his memory were held from the Church of Christ conducted by Re. Phillips. The remains were then brought to Carrollton where short funeral services wee held from the Willis Bros. funeral home at 1:30 o'clock, with Rev. G. L. Bush in charge. Interment followed at Oak Hill cemetery. The subject of this sketch came of good old Revolutionary stock and, being himself a veteran of one of the greatest wars known to history, was worthy of honorable notice among the leading citizens of his county and state. John E. Lynn was a Virginia by birth and a descendant of One of the old and well known families of that commonwealth. His grandfather, Moses Lynn, a native of Ireland, came to America in the time of the Colonies and settled originally near Charlottesville, Va., removing later to the vicinity of Winchester, and then to Alexandria, where he was living when the struggle for independence began. He served with distinction thru out the entire Revolutionary war and at its close returned to his plantation, where he spent the remainder of his days. His wife, who survived, went to Pittsburg, Pa., in which city she died in 1873, at the remarkable age of 117 years and four months, one of the oldest persons of whom there is any record in the latter state. Michael Lynn, the subject's father, was born in Virginia in the year 1800 and by occupation was a planter. He was a man of high social standing in the country where he resided. He married in his native state Hannah McLuin, daughter of James McLuin, an Englishman by birth, and reared a family of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth in the order of birth. In 1860 Michael Lynn moved his family to Ohio, where he lived a retired life, dying in the year 1873.