This biographical sketch was found some time ago online. Names in the article are those of the family of Francis Flood and his brother The Reverend Jonathan Flood.
"Mr. Allan was again married, May 12, 1896, his second union being with Miss Charita Flood, who was born in this county, April 10, 1858, a daughter of Robert and Eliza J. (Walker) Flood. She attended school in Dixon Illinois, and prior to her marriage engaged in school-teaching in DeWitt county for fourteen years. Her mother died in 1867, but her father, who is a native of Clark county, Ohio , is still living and now makes his home in Weldon. By his first marriage he had four children: Oscar, who died in Montgomery county, Illinois , February 18, 1910; Sarah, the wife of Amos Berkley, of Weldon; Charita, the wife of our subject; and Mary, the widow of Leonard Hardesty and a resident of Weldon. For his second wife Mr. Flood married Mrs. Armadilla Jones, by whom he had two children: Charles, who died about 1890; and Mattie, who makes her home with her parents. During the Civil war Mr. Flood joined the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry and is today an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is also prominently identified with the Methodist Protestant church, with which the family has long been connected. His father, @Francis Flood, and uncle, Jonathan Flood, were present in Baltimore Maryland, in 1828, on the organization of the first Methodist Protestant church in this country, the former as a lay delegate and the latter as a minister. Mr. Flood has filled all of the offices in the church with which he is connected and has been a local preacher. He threw the first shovel full of dirt in making the excavation for the new church at Weldon and took a very active part in its building. Although he is now eighty-three years of age he is still doing some business as an auctioneer."
