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1335 W. Miller's Cove Road
Walland, Tennessee  37886

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The property on which Sampson's Hollow sits has been in the Flynn family  since before 1879—that's as far back as we have been able to officially  trace through recorded archives. Bill Livingston, proprietor of the  property, is the grandson of Sampson Flynn, for whom the facility is  named. All the grandchildren called their grandfather, Dada. His father was Joseph Winfield Scott Flynn and it was through Joseph that  the farm was originally deeded. Joseph was born in 1861 to Joseph and  Rebecca Hatcher Flynn. The older Joseph had fought in the War Between  the States and died of smallpox while still in service in 1864. He is  buried in a military cemetery in Nashville because the family didn't  have the money to have his remains brought back to his home in Walland.  At that time, the name Flynn was spelled Flinn.

In addition to his son Joseph W., the senior Joseph and Rebecca Flinn had  five other children. At the age of 18, his son, Joseph W. married Mary  Jane Kinnamon. After twenty years of marriage, Mary Jane and the child  she was carrying died in childbirth. To this union were born eleven  children. Joseph married again to Sarah Jane Settlemeyer Smith, who had  four children by a previous marriage.  Sarah and Joseph had eight more children, one of whom was our Dada, Sampson Flynn.

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