The Claud and Flythe Families

The Flythe family is certainly related to me. My mother always said that we were related to the Flythes. This is part of the long story about the Flythe family. Long ago in 1842, Sarah Claud was born. She was the daughter of Zilphy Claud (1820-1893). She lived form 1842 to 1892. Later, Sarah Claud married a man named Tom Hill. They had the following children: Adeline Hill (1862-1930), Matt Hill (1868-1931), Scap Hill (1868-?), Susanna Sarah M. Hill (1868-?), Roberta Hill (1875-1935), and Rev. James Thompson Claud (1857-1926). Roberta Hill was born on September 2, 1875. She married a man named William Theo Scott (1865-1935) in 1892 at Southampton County, Virginia. They had numerous children by the names of: Millard Filmore Scott (1892-1959), Lena Mae Flythe (1893-1962), Sarah Francis Scott (1894-1954), Nettie Virginia Scott (1897-1986), John Quincy Adams Scott (1898-?), Albert Scott (1899-1994), Inez Scott (1901-1961), William Scott Jr. (1903-?), Guy Claudius Scott (1905-1965), Minnie S. Hogan (1907-?), Fannie Scott (1909-?), Woodrow W. Scott (1910-1969), Ezar Scott (1910-?), Hazel Scott (1920-?), and Elijah Perry Hill.

Lena Mae Scott married into the Flythe family. Lena was born on January 6, 1893. She or Lane Mae Scott married Henry Hersey Flythe (1873-1963) on February 28, 1909 at Nortfolk, Virginia. The couple had the following children: Hattie Flythe (1911-?), Harvey Lenton Flythe (1912-1957), Neva Flythe (1915-1962), Euince Flythe (1916-1999), Pretlow Garland Flythe (1919-1986), Virginia Flythe (1920-2004), and Lena Scott Flythe (1928-1994). William Henry Flythe or the son of Henry Hersey Flythe had two wives. His first wife was a woman named Sarah Clyde Darden Flythe Joe (1913-1987). William and Sarah wed on the date of September 24, 1934. Together, William and Sarah Flythe had the following children: Wilhelmina Darden Flythe (1935-present), Cornelle Warren Flythe (1936-2007), Wallace Randolph Flythe (1938-1993), Maxine Deloris Flythe (1939-present), and Vivian Vanasse Flythe (1939-1939).

January 17, 1944 was when Saran and William had a divorce at Virginia. Later, William Henry Flythe married Virginia Mae Bailey (1926-2000) at Courtland, Virginia on the date of February 7, 1948. William and Virginia had the follwing children: James Clifton Bryant (1945-1991), Melvin Rudolph Flythe (1947-present), Willaim McKenney Flythe Sr. (1949-2016), Brenda May Flythe (1950-present), Harvey Hudson Flythe (1952-present), and Hazel Angela Flythe (1962-1963). The late, great William McKenney Flythe Sr. was my third cousin. He passed away on March 25, 2016. He worked in civic organizations, he was part of the NAACP, and he worked in ministries, and he lived his life in service to fellow people in a humble fashion. William McKenney Flythe Sr. married Laverne Saunders on the date of February 9, 1970 at Nansemond, Virginia (or Suffolk, Virginia today). William and Laverne Flythe had the following children: Dameyon Parris hFlythe (1971-1997), Darrell Obadiah Flythe (1975-present), Wilvern Major Flythe (1977-present), Angela Flythe, Lorraine Davis, and William M. Flythe Jr. William M. Flythe Jr. married Michele Rene Brockington on August 8, 1998 at Chesapeake Virginia. Their daughter is Taylor Rene Flythe (who is my 5th cousin. She was born on July 10, 1999 at Chesapeake, Virginia). So, these African American families go back long centuries.


By Timothy