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Caddo Co. Oklahoma - Civil War 
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Flansburg, James Alonzo - 
Union Army

The Anadarko Tribune 10-Jun-1926
James Alonzo Flansburg was born March 1, 1847 in the pioneer home of his parents, near Freeport, Illinois. He attended the district school in which his father was his first teacher, and later entered the seminary at Mount Morris, Illinois, but withdrew from this school without graduating in the spring of '64, to volunteer for service in the Union Army. After the war his duty as the only son of an invalid father caused him to give up his idea of studying for a profession toward which he was by nature strongly inclined, and he remained on the farm. He was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah Murdaugh. early in the 70's he removed with his family to Nebraska, taking up land in Pawnee county, but moved again the next year, this time to Washington county, Kansas. His wife died in 1878, leaving five children, four of whom survive their father. In 1883, he married Mrs. Almeda Mason Hayes. To these two were born seven children, two of whom died in early childhood. Mr. Flansburg homesteaded land in Beaver township, Caddo county, Okla., and lived on this farm continuously from April, 1902, until the autumn of 1925, when he and his wife removed to Hydro where he died June 4, 1926.
Funeral services were conducted at the M.E. church at Eakly, and the body was laid to rest in the Eakly cemetery, June 5.
Mr. Flansburg had reached the age of 79 years, 3 months and 3 days. He leaves his wife, one sister, Miss Fonetta Flansburg, Colorado Springs, Colo., and four sons and five daughters. Of these, Mr. O.E. Smith, Mrs. Agnes Alvis, Mrs. J.E. Kardokus, A.A. Flansburg, and L.H. Flansburg lived near him in Oklahoma. The others are O.M. Flansburg, Clinton, Montana, J.H. Flansburg, Los Angeles, Miss Alda Flansburg, Colorado Springs, and Miss Elenor Flansburg, New York City.
Mr. Flansburg knew from personal experience the hardships and problems of frontier days in four of our great states. Except for the last few years of his life, when he became a constant sufferer from the heart disease which caused his death. He was a man of rugged energy. He possessed a vigorous intellect which made him a wide and unusually retentive reader. He was for many years conversant with the opinions and attainments of great statesmen and scientists the world over, and his mind was a storehouse of quotations from the best in literature. He was an independent thinker, and supremely courageous in his convictions. Truly it may be said of him that he was as much in the vanguard of civilization intellectually as he was geographically.
Mr. Flansburg was a devoted husband and a loving father. The welfare of his family being his first concern. He particularly loved little children. During the last days of his life, when he was too weak to speak, the bringing of a little child to the bedside always brought a smile to the worn face. Always upright in behavior, scrupulously just in all his dealings with his fellow man, and alert to the best interests of the neighborhood, he was a power for good in the community and the world.