Thomas Hartford Blackstone and Mary Pew

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Husband Thomas Hartford Blackstone ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Thomas Blackston
           Born: 8 Jul 1824 - Whistler House, Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Father: James Blackstone (1798-1865) 4
         Mother: Nancy Waugh (Abt 1793-1877) 4

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       Marriage: 5 Mar 1867 5

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   Other Spouse: Nancy Reed (      -1866) 3 - 19 Apr 1848 3

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Wife Mary Pew ⁵

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           Born:  - Mercer Co, PA
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           Died: 22 Oct 1889 6
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         Father: William Pew (1798-Bef 1877) 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Thompson (      -Bef 1888) 7

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Children

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1 F Lillie Irene Blackstone ^{5 6}

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         Spouse: John W. Gilchrist (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Hartford Blackstone

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Beginning the study of books in the typical log schoolhouse of pioneer days, when the teacher "boarded around," he acquired a practical knowledge of the branches taught, and while yet a lad became familiar with farm work. In those days all grain was cut with a cradle or a sickle, and either threshed with flails or trampled out with horses. Remaining on the homestead, he lived with his parents, or they with him, during their lives, and he succeeded to the ownership of the old home farm. Here he began housekeeping in the old log house. Meeting with eminent success as a general farmer, he erected a fine set of frame buildings, and made substantial improvements on the place, rendering it one of the most attractive and desirable estates in the neighborhood. [HMC 1909, 899]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 879, 931.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 899.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 879.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 931.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 880.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 900.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 747.