Burial Source: Violet Cemetery Records by Mabel F Edrington, Mississippi County Historian.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 1989, Volume 1 Number 1
Page 12
THE HALE FAMILY Dr. Eldon Fairley*
Nancy [Emery Hale] married John Oscar Blackwood on May 13, 1864, when she was 15. Blackwood held several city and county offices and established the Osceola Times in 1870. They had twelve children, including Mrs. Jessie Davis, Mrs. J. Lan Williams, Mrs. Emma B. Moore, Mrs. Belva Martin, John Blackwood, William Blackwood, and Dwight Blackwood.
Family gatherings were frequent, as a 1910 dinner and party for Mrs. Nancy Hale Blackwood Sawyer (she had a second marriage) on her sixty first birthday.
Two sheriffs of Mississippi county have come from this family--the late Dwight Blackwood and the late Hale Jackson. Mrs. Belva Blackwood Martin was state land commissioner in the late 1920's. Mr. Blackwood also served as the state Highway commissioner and was a candidate for governor.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 2000
Page 88
DWIGHT HALE BLACKWOOD(December 24, 1886-June 18, 1953),son of NANCY EMERY HALE BLACKWOOD; served as Mississippi County Sheriff in the late teens and early twenties, and as Chairman of the Arkansas State Highway Commission from the mid-twenties until 1932. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas in Primary of 1932. Note the use of his Mother's maiden name as his middle name.
Other note worthy information for Dwight Hale Blackwood:
Dwight's young school years were in the Osceola schools and he finished high school years at Ouachita College.
He began a professional baseball career in 1908 for the Arkansas League as a pitcher. He was sold to the Cleveland Indians in the American League. In 1919 due to a weakened arm he quit baseball and settled in Blytheville, Arkansas.
1925 appointed State Treasurer, 1926 appointed to the State Highway Department and served 6 years. He served as Blytheville Deputy Sheriff in 1931 and was elected Sheriff and Collector of Mississippi County and served three terms. In 1932 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas and retired from politics.
He and his wife, Lucy Jones, married in 1909 and they had two children, Virginia, who married Jettie Driver; and Dwight Hale Blackwood, Jr.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 1989, Volume 1 Number 1
Page 12
THE HALE FAMILY Dr. Eldon Fairley*
Nancy [Emery Hale] married John Oscar Blackwood on May 13, 1864, when she was 15. Blackwood held several city and county offices and established the Osceola Times in 1870. They had twelve children, including Mrs. Jessie Davis, Mrs. J. Lan Williams, Mrs. Emma B. Moore, Mrs. Belva Martin, John Blackwood, William Blackwood, and Dwight Blackwood.
Family gatherings were frequent, as a 1910 dinner and party for Mrs. Nancy Hale Blackwood Sawyer (she had a second marriage) on her sixty first birthday.
Two sheriffs of Mississippi county have come from this family--the late Dwight Blackwood and the late Hale Jackson. Mrs. Belva Blackwood Martin was state land commissioner in the late 1920's. Mr. Blackwood also served as the state Highway commissioner and was a candidate for governor.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 2000
Page 88
DWIGHT HALE BLACKWOOD(December 24, 1886-June 18, 1953),son of NANCY EMERY HALE BLACKWOOD; served as Mississippi County Sheriff in the late teens and early twenties, and as Chairman of the Arkansas State Highway Commission from the mid-twenties until 1932. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas in Primary of 1932. Note the use of his Mother's maiden name as his middle name.
Other note worthy information for Dwight Hale Blackwood:
Dwight's young school years were in the Osceola schools and he finished high school years at Ouachita College.
He began a professional baseball career in 1908 for the Arkansas League as a pitcher. He was sold to the Cleveland Indians in the American League. In 1919 due to a weakened arm he quit baseball and settled in Blytheville, Arkansas.
1925 appointed State Treasurer, 1926 appointed to the State Highway Department and served 6 years. He served as Blytheville Deputy Sheriff in 1931 and was elected Sheriff and Collector of Mississippi County and served three terms. In 1932 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas and retired from politics.
He and his wife, Lucy Jones, married in 1909 and they had two children, Virginia, who married Jettie Driver; and Dwight Hale Blackwood, Jr.
Burial Source: Violet Cemetery Records by Mabel F Edrington, Mississippi County Historian.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 1989, Volume 1 Number 1
Page 12
THE HALE FAMILY Dr. Eldon Fairley*
Nancy [Emery Hale] married John Oscar Blackwood on May 13, 1864, when she was 15. Blackwood held several city and county offices and established the Osceola Times in 1870. They had twelve children, including Mrs. Jessie Davis, Mrs. J. Lan Williams, Mrs. Emma B. Moore, Mrs. Belva Martin, John Blackwood, William Blackwood, and Dwight Blackwood.
Family gatherings were frequent, as a 1910 dinner and party for Mrs. Nancy Hale Blackwood Sawyer (she had a second marriage) on her sixty first birthday.
Two sheriffs of Mississippi county have come from this family--the late Dwight Blackwood and the late Hale Jackson. Mrs. Belva Blackwood Martin was state land commissioner in the late 1920's. Mr. Blackwood also served as the state Highway commissioner and was a candidate for governor.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 2000
Page 88
DWIGHT HALE BLACKWOOD(December 24, 1886-June 18, 1953),son of NANCY EMERY HALE BLACKWOOD; served as Mississippi County Sheriff in the late teens and early twenties, and as Chairman of the Arkansas State Highway Commission from the mid-twenties until 1932. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas in Primary of 1932. Note the use of his Mother's maiden name as his middle name.
Other note worthy information for Dwight Hale Blackwood:
Dwight's young school years were in the Osceola schools and he finished high school years at Ouachita College.
He began a professional baseball career in 1908 for the Arkansas League as a pitcher. He was sold to the Cleveland Indians in the American League. In 1919 due to a weakened arm he quit baseball and settled in Blytheville, Arkansas.
1925 appointed State Treasurer, 1926 appointed to the State Highway Department and served 6 years. He served as Blytheville Deputy Sheriff in 1931 and was elected Sheriff and Collector of Mississippi County and served three terms. In 1932 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas and retired from politics.
He and his wife, Lucy Jones, married in 1909 and they had two children, Virginia, who married Jettie Driver; and Dwight Hale Blackwood, Jr.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 1989, Volume 1 Number 1
Page 12
THE HALE FAMILY Dr. Eldon Fairley*
Nancy [Emery Hale] married John Oscar Blackwood on May 13, 1864, when she was 15. Blackwood held several city and county offices and established the Osceola Times in 1870. They had twelve children, including Mrs. Jessie Davis, Mrs. J. Lan Williams, Mrs. Emma B. Moore, Mrs. Belva Martin, John Blackwood, William Blackwood, and Dwight Blackwood.
Family gatherings were frequent, as a 1910 dinner and party for Mrs. Nancy Hale Blackwood Sawyer (she had a second marriage) on her sixty first birthday.
Two sheriffs of Mississippi county have come from this family--the late Dwight Blackwood and the late Hale Jackson. Mrs. Belva Blackwood Martin was state land commissioner in the late 1920's. Mr. Blackwood also served as the state Highway commissioner and was a candidate for governor.
Exerpts from The DELTA Historical Review
Published by the Mississippi County Historical and Genealogical Society; Osceola, Arkansas
Spring 2000
Page 88
DWIGHT HALE BLACKWOOD(December 24, 1886-June 18, 1953),son of NANCY EMERY HALE BLACKWOOD; served as Mississippi County Sheriff in the late teens and early twenties, and as Chairman of the Arkansas State Highway Commission from the mid-twenties until 1932. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas in Primary of 1932. Note the use of his Mother's maiden name as his middle name.
Other note worthy information for Dwight Hale Blackwood:
Dwight's young school years were in the Osceola schools and he finished high school years at Ouachita College.
He began a professional baseball career in 1908 for the Arkansas League as a pitcher. He was sold to the Cleveland Indians in the American League. In 1919 due to a weakened arm he quit baseball and settled in Blytheville, Arkansas.
1925 appointed State Treasurer, 1926 appointed to the State Highway Department and served 6 years. He served as Blytheville Deputy Sheriff in 1931 and was elected Sheriff and Collector of Mississippi County and served three terms. In 1932 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Arkansas and retired from politics.
He and his wife, Lucy Jones, married in 1909 and they had two children, Virginia, who married Jettie Driver; and Dwight Hale Blackwood, Jr.
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