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B. J. Flippin, the eldest living child of the above, was born in Lauderdale County, October 4, 1841, was raised on a farm, and had few educational advantages. He remained at home until 1861 when he went into the Confederate Army as second-lieutenant in the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery, and after the battle of Vicksburg he was made captain of Company F, Fifteenth Tennessee Cavalry, and held that rank to the end. In 1864 he was captured in northern Mississippi, and held three months at Fort Delaware, but was exchanged at City Point, Va., then re-entered the service and made the final surrender at Gainesville, Ala. Since the war his chief business has been railroading—ten years of the time in Mississippi, and for three years he merchandised there. In 1879 he moved to Haywood County, and farmed; in 1882 he took charge of the station at Flippin, where he is also engaged in merchandising. In 1865 he married Miss Neeley Keeton, by whom he has two sons: Robert K., a student at McKenzie, and Benjamin M., educated at Janesville, Wis., and operator and railroad clerk at Ripley, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Flippin are both Missionary Baptists. While in Haywood County, he was road commissioner and tax collector, and for sixteen years has been in the employ of two railroad companies, as brakeman, yard-master, agent and conductor.