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Rev Armstrong Blevins

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Rev Armstrong Blevins

Birth
Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
12 Jun 1868 (aged 49–50)
North Carolina, USA
Burial
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Armstrong born on Prathers Creek in Ashe County North Carolina (now Alleghany). His parents settled there in 1801 on land grant 522. According to Eastern Cherokee Applications submitted to Guion Miller, special commissioner US Court of claims, by 31 Aug 1907, the grandchildren were to be given a share of the more than one million dollars to compensate all Cherokee descent. Lydia Sizemore Blevins was the daughter of Edward (Old Ned) Sizemore, who was believed to have been full-blooded Cherokee. Armstrong and Catharine moved ca. 1840 to Weasel, North Carolina where he bought a farm on what is now road 1358. In 1847 he received a N.C. land grant #4449 for 100 acres on this road adjacent his own land, the Roops and the Virginia Line, and in Jul 1852 land grant #3305 adjoining his land and Calvin Perkins and Edward Blevins, Armstrong was a Baptist minister, a history in in J.F. Flecther's HISTORY OF ASHE CO. CHURCHES, photocopy of article #97 and #86 in file.

Children:

Edward Armstrong Blevins
1835 – 1895

Eugene Blevins
1836 – 1850

Charity Blevins
1837 – 1902

Eliza (twins) Blevins
1837 – 1843

Artemecia "Mecy" Blevins
1838 – 1865

Mary Blevins
1839 – 1877

William Harrison Blevins
1840 – 1925

Amelia A "Milly" Blevins
1843 – 1898

Elizabeth Blevins
1844 –

Olivia Blevins
1844 – 1844

Amelia A (Twin) Blevins
1846 – 1885

Eli Winton Blevins
1846 – 1909

Elijah Blevins
1847 – 1916

Hannah Naomi Blevins
1850 – 1891

Orma O Blevins
1850 –

Mary Elizabeth Blevins
1851 – 1884

Almeda Blevins
1854 – 1855

Sarah Jane Blevins
1858 – 1916

Hezekial Blevins
1860 –

Benjamin Franklin Blevins
1862 – 1919

Ida Effingham Blevins
Armstrong born on Prathers Creek in Ashe County North Carolina (now Alleghany). His parents settled there in 1801 on land grant 522. According to Eastern Cherokee Applications submitted to Guion Miller, special commissioner US Court of claims, by 31 Aug 1907, the grandchildren were to be given a share of the more than one million dollars to compensate all Cherokee descent. Lydia Sizemore Blevins was the daughter of Edward (Old Ned) Sizemore, who was believed to have been full-blooded Cherokee. Armstrong and Catharine moved ca. 1840 to Weasel, North Carolina where he bought a farm on what is now road 1358. In 1847 he received a N.C. land grant #4449 for 100 acres on this road adjacent his own land, the Roops and the Virginia Line, and in Jul 1852 land grant #3305 adjoining his land and Calvin Perkins and Edward Blevins, Armstrong was a Baptist minister, a history in in J.F. Flecther's HISTORY OF ASHE CO. CHURCHES, photocopy of article #97 and #86 in file.

Children:

Edward Armstrong Blevins
1835 – 1895

Eugene Blevins
1836 – 1850

Charity Blevins
1837 – 1902

Eliza (twins) Blevins
1837 – 1843

Artemecia "Mecy" Blevins
1838 – 1865

Mary Blevins
1839 – 1877

William Harrison Blevins
1840 – 1925

Amelia A "Milly" Blevins
1843 – 1898

Elizabeth Blevins
1844 –

Olivia Blevins
1844 – 1844

Amelia A (Twin) Blevins
1846 – 1885

Eli Winton Blevins
1846 – 1909

Elijah Blevins
1847 – 1916

Hannah Naomi Blevins
1850 – 1891

Orma O Blevins
1850 –

Mary Elizabeth Blevins
1851 – 1884

Almeda Blevins
1854 – 1855

Sarah Jane Blevins
1858 – 1916

Hezekial Blevins
1860 –

Benjamin Franklin Blevins
1862 – 1919

Ida Effingham Blevins


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