Cyrus H. Blood and Maude Darr

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Husband Cyrus H. Blood ¹

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           Born: 26 May 1860 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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           Died: 8 Nov 1913 - Ontario, San Bernardino Co, CA 2
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         Father: Hon. Kennedy L. Blood (      -      ) 3 4
         Mother: Rebecca J. Corbett (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 3 Jun 1885 1

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Wife Maude Darr ¹

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           Died: Aft 1917
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         Father: Joseph T. Darr (1827-1901) 2 5
         Mother: Margaret Burket (      -      ) 5 6

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Children

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1 F Marion H. Blood ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Cyrus H. Blood

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His home was at Brookville, Pennsylvania, all his life. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, and later took up the study of law with Jenks & Clark, being admitted to the practice of law in Jefferson county in 1884. After practicing law for a number of years he served as a clerk in the prothonotary's office, and in 1899 was a candidate for that office on the Republican ticket. Such was his personal popularity in the county, gained by years of courteous service of those having business at the prothonotary's office, that after he received the Republican nomination no candidate was presented by the Democratic party for the office, Mr. Blood being given a handsome vote. In 1902 and 1905 he was reelected prothonotary, the Democratic party making no nomination against him in the last named year. In 1908 a host of friends again urged him to be a candidate for reelection. After mature consideration, however, he decided to retire and devote his time to the practice of his profession, and from the time of his retirement, in January, 1909, he was associated with his brother-in-law, William T. Darr, Esq.
He was widely known in fraternal circles, being a member of Hobah Lodge, No. 276, F. & M., and Jefferson Chapter, No. 225, R. A. M., of Brookville; Bethany Commandery, No. 83, K. T., of DuBois, and Jaffa Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Altoona. His Masonic history is an interesting one. He served as secretary of the two local Masonic organizations, blue lodge and chapter, for ten years or more preceding his decease. He served as master in the blue lodge, high priest in the chapter, and eminent commander in the commandery, and was so thoroughly equipped for the degree work that he had conferred every degree from Entered Apprentice to Knight Templar, ten in all, with possibly one exception. He served four or five years as district deputy grand high priest for the district composed of the counties of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion and Jefferson. Along with being secretary of his lodge and chapter at the time of his death, he was their representative in the Grand Lodge and in the Grand Chapter. In addition to being a blue lodge, chapter and commandery Mason, he had taken the Scottish Rite degrees up to and including the fourteenth.
He died suddenly at Ontario, California, after an operation for appendicitis. He had gone out to Seattle to visit his brother, James C. Blood, who had been in poor health for some time, and finding him much improved had gone to Ontario to visit his cousin, Mrs. Herbert Ross, before returning East. He was taken ill with appendicitis, of which he had had an attack a year previously, and died unexpectedly a few days after an operation.

1 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 372.

2 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 373.

3 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 952.

4 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 78.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 537.

6 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 374.