Flingsville

Flingsville was named for George Fling who was born in 1854, married Emma Menefee in 1876 and died in 1932. He became the first postmaster June 2, 1876. Prior to this, the community was known as Newtown, thus the origin of the Sherman-Newton Road. Flingsville is located on State Highway 491east of Crittenden. A building was constructed at the corner of what is now Rogers and Menefee Roads and was used for a church, also for a school. They were known as the Liberty Baptist Church and the Liberty School.

The earliest school records available today records C. T. Elliott and Thomas Hutsell as Trustees of School #19 in 1885. In 1895, the then Trustees, T. M. Hutsell, W. C. Menefee and M. V. Lummis acquired a new school site on the Crittenden-Gradnersville Road from J. T. Mann, Elizabeth Mann, Sally Mann and E. G. Mann. Also known locally as the Flingsville School, it was closed and the property sold in 1920 to the International Holiness Church.

Located in Flingsville was a tobacco warehouse, a veterinarian by the name of Ben Menefee. Hiram Snape had a blacksmith shop, also Dick McNay. Storekeepers were George Fling, John Eli Mann (who also sold monuments), Clarence Rouse, David Mann, Paschel Reed, E. J. Poore, Ervin Middleton, Willard Pugh, Ralph Poore, and Dolan Richerson. Stanley Menefee had a hatchery and feed store. A Doctor Smith practiced medicine at Flingsville.

Following Fling's first term as postmaster, cucceeding postmasters were:

    The office was discontinued in May 1903.

Yellow poplar logs were cut from the Lloyd farm to build the first frame house on Hutsell's Turnpike (Rogers Road) By Dick McNay circa 1850, who was the father of Russell McNay, the owner of McNay Lumber Yard at Crittenden for many years. Later this was known as the "haunted house" and no one lived there for about thirty years, then the Mann family moved in. Water was carried from a spring that had been walled up out of logs.

Indian mounds have been found on the Eli Mann farm and an Indian encampment on the Paschel Reed farm. A mill was operated on Grassy Greek near Flingsville.

History of Grant County
John B. Conrad, Editor
Published by Grant County Historical Society
Article by K. H. Connely

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