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From the book - History of Walworth County, Wisconsin.
Written by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912
Source - Walworth County Genealogical Society.

Page 517 - FLACK FAMILY

JAMES FLACK, son of immigrants from Ireland, born 1782, married Polly POWELL, born 1792, and lived in Washington county, New York. Their children were John Powell, Thomas, Margaret (Mrs. THORNTON), Anna (Mrs. David G. LYTLE), Garrett, Richard B., James D.

Richard Baker FLACK was born December 13, 1815; married Sophia, daughter of John ARMSTRONG and Elizabeth LYTLE, March 20, 1838; came to town of Geneva in 1843; died at Elkhorn, October 30, 1887. Mrs. FLACK was born at Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, July 5, 1815; died at Elkhorn, February 3, 1901. Their children were James H., Wilbur, Alarada, Emma, Elmina (Mrs. Duane D. FINCH).

James Douglas FLACK, born September 27, 1828; married Sarah Eliza COOK; died March 7, 1911. Mrs. FLACK was born in 1834; died March 1909. Children: Furness, Mary, James, Alice, Lucy, Willie E.

JOHN FLACK, a brother of James, married a daughter of Capt. Isaac GRAY. Their son, James Adam, was born in Washington county June 2, 1804; married, first, Mary, daughter of Samuel LYTLE; second, Martha, daughter of Samuel ARMSTRONG and Mary GREGG; came early to the town of Geneva; died March 8, 1888. Mary's children were John G., David L. and Mary Ann (Mrs. Daniel GROSS). Martha's children were Arvilla (Mrs. Samuel LYTLE, Jr.), Ellen Genevra (Mrs. Henry DELAP), Lydia Marilla, Charles Mortimer (married Nellie CRUICKSHANK).

John Gray FLACK, born July 3, 1828; married December 18, 1849, Ellen M., daughter of Daniel S. and Maria BENTON; she died June 22, 1900; he married Mrs. Hephsibah (TOMLINSON) ALLEN, June 19, 1902; is yet living, at Elkhorn.

Page 484-485 ARMSTRONG FAMILY

HARRISON ARMSTRONG was son of John ARMSTRONG and Elizabeth LYTLE, who came early to Geneva with him and their other children. He was born in St. Lawrence county, in 1814; married Mary SCRIPTER; came in the later forties or early fifties to Spring Prairie as a blacksmith, and presently as a plow-maker, and for some years had a good local business. Later he lived at or near Elkhorn, and went about 1856 to Trempealeau county. At some time he made the overland way to California and came back with material for occasional home lectures. He was a ready rhymer, in various measures; but his preference was for the versification as well as the philosophy and satire of Pope. His wife, Mary SCRIPTER, who died several years before him, was a spiritualistic medium, and, as he said, a very superior woman. "Uncle Hat, the Plowmaker," was eccentric only in religio-philosophical beliefs or notions, loving or tolerating everything and everybody except creeds and clergymen; but was a better Christian than he knew, being one of the best and kindest of men. His brother James never married. His sister Maria was wife of Velorous SCRIPTER (Mary's brother), and Sophia was wife of Richard B. FLACK.

Page 485

SAMUEL ARMSTRONG, a brother of John, married Mary GREGG. At least ten of their eleven children came from St. Lawrence county to Geneva and Elkhorn. The order of their birth is not known with exactness. James, a carpenter, married, first, his cousin Elizabeth ARMSTRONG; second, Jane CRUICKSHANK (whose brother Alexander was a building contractor of Elkhorn and of Chicago). Jane was wife of Thomas B. GRAY, Agnes, wife of David WELLS (not known here). Elizabeth (twin with Agnes), wife of Elihu GRAY. Maria, wife of Martin RUSSELL. Hannah, second wife of John DUNLAP. Julia Ann, wife of Daniel Carr GRAY. Samuel, married Hannah VAN ALLEN. John A. married Elizabeth (daughter of Isaac GRAY). Martha, wife of James Adams FLACK. Lydia, wife of Henry J. SMITH. [See Flack, Gray, and Lytle families.] John ARMSTRONG, a soldier of the Revolution, father of John and Samuel had a daughter, wife of Nathaniel CARSWELL, whose son, Nathaniel H. CARSWELL lived in Racine county, and thence came to Elkhorn in 1853.

Page 538 - LYTLE FAMILY

ROBERT LYTLE married Esther LYTLE. Both were of the north of Ireland, and were children of immigrants. They had children: Isaac (married Nancy ARMSTRONG);Elizabeth (Mrs. John ARMSTRONG); Lucy (Mrs. William LYTLE); William (married Nelly LYTLE); James (married Chloe HASKINS, and Elizabeth HENRY); Margaret (Mrs. Daniel KEENEY).

A brother of Robert or of Esther had children: Samuel (his second wife, Mrs. Harriet CAMPBELL MAGEE); Nelly (wife of above mentioned William LYTLE); William (married above-named Lucy LYTLE); James; John.

SAMUEL LYTLE and his first wife had a daughter, Mary, wife of James Adam FLACK.
Of his second wife, Harriet (CAMPBELL) MAGEE, were Samuel, whose wife Arvilla is daughter of James Adam FLACK's second wife, Martha ARMSTRONG; Thomas (married Sylvia RUST); Henry (married Julia, daughter of Richard POTTER); . Louisa (Mrs. Cyrus COLE).

The Page extracts from "The History of Walworth County, Wisconsin" ends here.

James and John's parents were James Flack (b.1787) and Mary Sophia Polly Powell ( b.abt 1788).
They are part of Tree608J and can be found here.