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WAYNE CO., IL

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

LAMARD TWP

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BLACKBURN, WILLIAM., farmer, P. O. Jeffersonville, was born November 27, 1844, in Brownsville. Penn.; he is a son of Isaac K. Blackburn, of Pennsylvania, who was born April 4, 1812, in Washington County, Penn. He was married to Liddie, daughter of John Wood, of Fayette County, Penn.

Our subject came to Wayne County, Dl., in the spring of 1868, and settled where he still resides; he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Jeffersonville, Wayne Co., IL He served three years in the late war, in Company. K, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; he was in the siege of Corinth, Vicksburg and Atlanta; he made the march to the sea, and back as far as Fayetteville, N. C., under Sherman. He was discharged on the 3d day of March, 1865; he has held the office of Highway Commissioner for sixteen years in this county.

Our subject was married, March 10, 1888, in Stark County, Ohio, to Eliza J., daughter of Samuel Klingalan, of Stark County, Ohio, who was born December 12, 1850. They have five children, four living, viz., Elba G., Cora B., Ida G., Charles W., and Mary E., who died January 27, 1878, and was buried in the Jeffersonville Cemetery.

Our subject owns 100 acres of good-land, and is engaged in fanning and stook-raising Politics, Republican.