Posted on: Independence Co. Ar Biographies Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ar/IndependenceBios/10003 Surname: DeCamp ------------------------- Britton, Nancy "A Memoir of Robert Lee Flinn by his son Charles Conway Flinn" - "The Independence County (AR) Chronicle" - Vol. 29, No. 3 & 4, April-July 1998, p. 16-18. "Robert Lee farmed about two years in the Oil Trough Bottoms at Elmo on White River. Then his brother, Cassius Monroe Flinn, elected sheriff of Independence County. He asked Robert to be his deputy. He worked several years for his brother, who was reelected for several terms until he lost his health. Robert, being offered a better job, took a job as a policeman in Hoxie, Arkansas. He said it was the worst police job he ever held. He then went to Morrilton, Arkansas. For a policeman, Morrilton was a very tough place, too. He then came back to Batesville and was a policeman for Chief Ed Decamp, who was a good friend of the Flinn family. "Robert said that during the Civil War Ed Decamp's grandfather (Willam C. DeCamp) was killed by robbers who prayed on people, especially the old. Mr. Decamp was trying to get to Dr. Jesse Washington Flinn's house, as Dr. Flinn had a guard that was paid by the Confederate States government. Robert said the man's name was Thomas Welch, and that he was a bad one, too, but he saved the Dr.'s life. As soon as the robbers killed Mr. Decamp, they came to Dr. Flinn's home. They asked for Dr. Flinn, but Tom Welch stood them off. They left and Dr. Flinn was spared. This information relating to the Civil War was told to Robert Lee Flinn by his mother, and he told it to his son, Charles C. Flinn."