Uncle Jesse L. Blakemore; one of the best known and oldest citizens of Washington County, died March 7, near Nicols, Mo. His son and nephew were called to his bed side and they accompanied his remains from Nicols to Boonsboro, where he lived. He left here a fortnight ago to attend to business in Missouri and was stricken with pneumonia of which he died in three days. He has a brother at Billngsly and one at Springdale. Mr. Blakemore came to this county from east Tennessee twenty years ago. Although he was three years past three score and ten he was hale and hearty and carried his age well. He was buried Thursday at Boonsboro in the College cemetry.
Fayetteville Weekly Democrat--March 15, 1900.
Same stone as wife Eliza Jane Wheeler Blakemore.
Other children (grave locations unknown) were:
John T. Blakemore
b. December 11, 1856
d. March 01, 1857
Ann Eliza Blakemore
b. May 10, 1862
d. June 1862
Uncle Jesse L. Blakemore; one of the best known and oldest citizens of Washington County, died March 7, near Nicols, Mo. His son and nephew were called to his bed side and they accompanied his remains from Nicols to Boonsboro, where he lived. He left here a fortnight ago to attend to business in Missouri and was stricken with pneumonia of which he died in three days. He has a brother at Billngsly and one at Springdale. Mr. Blakemore came to this county from east Tennessee twenty years ago. Although he was three years past three score and ten he was hale and hearty and carried his age well. He was buried Thursday at Boonsboro in the College cemetry.
Fayetteville Weekly Democrat--March 15, 1900.
Same stone as wife Eliza Jane Wheeler Blakemore.
Other children (grave locations unknown) were:
John T. Blakemore
b. December 11, 1856
d. March 01, 1857
Ann Eliza Blakemore
b. May 10, 1862
d. June 1862
Inscription
JESSIE L.
BLAKEMORE
BORN
MAR. 29, 1826
DIED
MAR. 7, 1900
Side of Stone:
The precious ones from us
has gone,
The voices we loved is
stilled,
The places is vacant in
our home
Which never can be
filled.
Family Members
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Mary M. Blakemore Pearson
1851–1909
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Sally Tennessee Blakemore Harrison
1852–1933
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Lee Douglass Blakemore
1854–1938
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William Wheeler Blakemore
1857–1910
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Charlotte Elizabeth "Lottie" Blakemore West
1858–1946
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Jesse Johnson Blakemore
1860–1950
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Dixie Belle Blakemore Lisenby
1864–1936
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James Andrew Blakemore
1866–1917
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Lula A. Blakemore
1868–1884
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Benjamin Irby Blakemore
1870–1936
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Burke Finley Blakemore
1875–1938
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