Robert Floyd, eldest of seven children of Enoch M. and Alice (Mettlen) Blake was born January 28, 1880 in Rooks County, Kansas.
He was not one-year old when the family returned to Iowa, the trip being made in a covered wagon.
Robert was reared in the Toledo area and received his education in Center School in Howard Township, Tama County, Iowa.
He was united in marriage to Cora Mae Mason on February 4, 1903, at the home of her parents, Richard and Sarah (Beery) Mason southeast of Toledo, with Rev. Edward Lee, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Toledo performing the ceremony. The couple made their home on farms in Otter Creek and Howard Townships until retiring in January of 1961 and moving to Toledo. They farmed in Howard Township for fifty-seven years.
In February 1963, they observed their 60th Wedding Anniversary with their family. Her wedding gown of white silk, fashioned with a train, was still one of her treasured possessions.
Cora Mae Mason was born August 6, 1879 near Red Cloud, Nebraska where her parents had gone to homestead and was little more than six months old when the family returned in a covered wagon to Iowa, a trip that took six weeks.
Cora often told the story that she learned to stand and walk by supporting herself on that wagon tongue when the family stopped for the night.
She received her education in the rural schools of Tama County and for a time followed a vocation of dress making.
Mrs. Blake joined the United Brethren Church at Gladstone, long since torn down and Rose Hill Methodist Church. She joined the Rose Hill Ladies Aid and was a member as long as the Society existed. When the members reorganized as the Community Club she continued that association. She was also a charter member of the Rose Hill Cemetery Society for seventy years and a member of the Toledo Cemetery Society.
Before her passing at the age of 94 years, her life span covered a time of transportation by covered wagon, the automobile, the airplane and rockets putting men on the moon in 1969.
Robert and Cora Mae are the parents of two children: Kenneth Mason Blake; and Beatrice Florence "Bea" (Blake) Fowler.
Mr. Blake died June 19, 1963 and Mrs. Blake November 26, 1973. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery in Howard Township, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Blake, Robert Floyd" F102, as written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak and included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, located at the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
He was not one-year old when the family returned to Iowa, the trip being made in a covered wagon.
Robert was reared in the Toledo area and received his education in Center School in Howard Township, Tama County, Iowa.
He was united in marriage to Cora Mae Mason on February 4, 1903, at the home of her parents, Richard and Sarah (Beery) Mason southeast of Toledo, with Rev. Edward Lee, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Toledo performing the ceremony. The couple made their home on farms in Otter Creek and Howard Townships until retiring in January of 1961 and moving to Toledo. They farmed in Howard Township for fifty-seven years.
In February 1963, they observed their 60th Wedding Anniversary with their family. Her wedding gown of white silk, fashioned with a train, was still one of her treasured possessions.
Cora Mae Mason was born August 6, 1879 near Red Cloud, Nebraska where her parents had gone to homestead and was little more than six months old when the family returned in a covered wagon to Iowa, a trip that took six weeks.
Cora often told the story that she learned to stand and walk by supporting herself on that wagon tongue when the family stopped for the night.
She received her education in the rural schools of Tama County and for a time followed a vocation of dress making.
Mrs. Blake joined the United Brethren Church at Gladstone, long since torn down and Rose Hill Methodist Church. She joined the Rose Hill Ladies Aid and was a member as long as the Society existed. When the members reorganized as the Community Club she continued that association. She was also a charter member of the Rose Hill Cemetery Society for seventy years and a member of the Toledo Cemetery Society.
Before her passing at the age of 94 years, her life span covered a time of transportation by covered wagon, the automobile, the airplane and rockets putting men on the moon in 1969.
Robert and Cora Mae are the parents of two children: Kenneth Mason Blake; and Beatrice Florence "Bea" (Blake) Fowler.
Mr. Blake died June 19, 1963 and Mrs. Blake November 26, 1973. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery in Howard Township, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Blake, Robert Floyd" F102, as written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak and included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, located at the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
Robert Floyd, eldest of seven children of Enoch M. and Alice (Mettlen) Blake was born January 28, 1880 in Rooks County, Kansas.
He was not one-year old when the family returned to Iowa, the trip being made in a covered wagon.
Robert was reared in the Toledo area and received his education in Center School in Howard Township, Tama County, Iowa.
He was united in marriage to Cora Mae Mason on February 4, 1903, at the home of her parents, Richard and Sarah (Beery) Mason southeast of Toledo, with Rev. Edward Lee, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Toledo performing the ceremony. The couple made their home on farms in Otter Creek and Howard Townships until retiring in January of 1961 and moving to Toledo. They farmed in Howard Township for fifty-seven years.
In February 1963, they observed their 60th Wedding Anniversary with their family. Her wedding gown of white silk, fashioned with a train, was still one of her treasured possessions.
Cora Mae Mason was born August 6, 1879 near Red Cloud, Nebraska where her parents had gone to homestead and was little more than six months old when the family returned in a covered wagon to Iowa, a trip that took six weeks.
Cora often told the story that she learned to stand and walk by supporting herself on that wagon tongue when the family stopped for the night.
She received her education in the rural schools of Tama County and for a time followed a vocation of dress making.
Mrs. Blake joined the United Brethren Church at Gladstone, long since torn down and Rose Hill Methodist Church. She joined the Rose Hill Ladies Aid and was a member as long as the Society existed. When the members reorganized as the Community Club she continued that association. She was also a charter member of the Rose Hill Cemetery Society for seventy years and a member of the Toledo Cemetery Society.
Before her passing at the age of 94 years, her life span covered a time of transportation by covered wagon, the automobile, the airplane and rockets putting men on the moon in 1969.
Robert and Cora Mae are the parents of two children: Kenneth Mason Blake; and Beatrice Florence "Bea" (Blake) Fowler.
Mr. Blake died June 19, 1963 and Mrs. Blake November 26, 1973. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery in Howard Township, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Blake, Robert Floyd" F102, as written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak and included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, located at the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
He was not one-year old when the family returned to Iowa, the trip being made in a covered wagon.
Robert was reared in the Toledo area and received his education in Center School in Howard Township, Tama County, Iowa.
He was united in marriage to Cora Mae Mason on February 4, 1903, at the home of her parents, Richard and Sarah (Beery) Mason southeast of Toledo, with Rev. Edward Lee, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Toledo performing the ceremony. The couple made their home on farms in Otter Creek and Howard Townships until retiring in January of 1961 and moving to Toledo. They farmed in Howard Township for fifty-seven years.
In February 1963, they observed their 60th Wedding Anniversary with their family. Her wedding gown of white silk, fashioned with a train, was still one of her treasured possessions.
Cora Mae Mason was born August 6, 1879 near Red Cloud, Nebraska where her parents had gone to homestead and was little more than six months old when the family returned in a covered wagon to Iowa, a trip that took six weeks.
Cora often told the story that she learned to stand and walk by supporting herself on that wagon tongue when the family stopped for the night.
She received her education in the rural schools of Tama County and for a time followed a vocation of dress making.
Mrs. Blake joined the United Brethren Church at Gladstone, long since torn down and Rose Hill Methodist Church. She joined the Rose Hill Ladies Aid and was a member as long as the Society existed. When the members reorganized as the Community Club she continued that association. She was also a charter member of the Rose Hill Cemetery Society for seventy years and a member of the Toledo Cemetery Society.
Before her passing at the age of 94 years, her life span covered a time of transportation by covered wagon, the automobile, the airplane and rockets putting men on the moon in 1969.
Robert and Cora Mae are the parents of two children: Kenneth Mason Blake; and Beatrice Florence "Bea" (Blake) Fowler.
Mr. Blake died June 19, 1963 and Mrs. Blake November 26, 1973. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery in Howard Township, Iowa.
Bio info obtained from "Blake, Robert Floyd" F102, as written by Mary C. Blake Dvorak and included in the book titled History of Tama County Iowa, Volume I, 1987, 977.7756 HIS Iowa, located at the Toledo, Iowa Public Library.
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