Father: Lee Cage Blakemore

Mother: Charlotte Johnson

1831 - Arrived in Arkansas with his parents

1850 - Farmer, Mountain Township, Washington Co., AR (lived with parents)

1854 - Studied medicine under Dr. William H. Douglas, Memphis, TN (2 years).

- Attended, Medical Department of the University of Nashville, Nashville, TN (but did not graduate)

05/17/1859 - Married, Nancy J. "Nannie" Trammell, near Greenwood, AR (she died in 1894)

1860 - Practiced medicine, Greenwood, Sebastian Co., AR

05/26/1862 - Birth of son, Jesse Lee Blakemore [Jesse received his M.D. degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, in 1888]

06/27/1862 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co. D, 35th AR Infantry, Greenwood, AR [Description - height: 6 ft. 1 in.; hair: light; eyes: blue; complexion: light; occupation: physician; nativity: Tenn; residence: Sebastian Ark]

07/12/1862 - Detailed as Hospital Steward, Fort Smith, AR

- Acting Asst. Surgeon, Confederate States Army

01/06/1863 - "The following acting medical officers having been rejected by the Army Medical Board will have their names dropped from the rolls, and will from this day cease to be officers of the C. S. Army:...William F. Blakemore...." [S.O. 4/5]

1870 - Practiced medicine, Centre Township, Sebastian Co., AR

1876 - M.D. degree, Kentucky Medical School, Louisville, KY

1880 - Practiced medicine, Boone, Logan Co., AR

1886 - Practiced medicine, Ft. Smith, Sebastian Co., AR

1890 - Practiced medicine, Greenwood, Sebastian Co., AR

1891 - Member, Greenwood [AR] School Board

1893 - Practiced medicine, Greenwood, Sebastian Co., AR

- Member, Sebastian County [AR] Medical Association

- Member, Arkansas State Medical Association

01/21/1894 - Died, Greenwood, Sebastian Co., AR

Note: Input to this biography was provided by Tom Mullis, John A. Blakemore, John Blakemore Sellers, and Bob Krick.

This biographical sketch is from:

Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical

register of physicians who served the

Confederacy in a medical capacity.

04/19/2014. Unpublished database

Note: Gravestone is engraved with a date of birth of 10/04/1830 while most sources give a date of birth of 10/30/1830.

Note: The creator of this memorial added the following:

Served 2 months in the Civil War as Captain in the Confederate Army. Was discharged due to disabilities(unknown).

Father of five children: Jesse Lee, Kate, Bessie, Ora and William.

Dr. Blakemore was a Masonic Mason, a member of the Odd Fellows; Sebastian County Medical Assoication; Greenwood Schood Board Member in 1891; and a Democrat.

Dr. William Finley Blakemore was the grandson of Thomas Blakemore and Sallie (Douglass) Blakemore.

Sources:

1.)Confederate Army Compiled Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration.

2.) Polk's Medical and Surgical Registers of the United States.

3.) Birnie Brothers' Funeral Home records.

4.)"Physicians and Medicine: Crawford and Sebastian Counties: 1817-1976." Fort Smith, Arkansas. 1976.