John H. Blair and Emily Griffin

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Husband John H. Blair ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 May 1823 - County Derry, Ireland 1 2
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           Died: 4 Jul 1896
         Buried:  - Hebron Cemetery, Victory Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Robert Blair (      -      ) 1 2 4
         Mother: Nancy Eakin (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 2 Jan 1849 - Butler Co, PA 1 2

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Wife Emily Griffin ²

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            AKA: Amelia Griffin 1
           Born: 5 Oct 1827
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           Died: 12 Jul 1902
         Buried:  - Hebron Cemetery, Victory Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: William Griffin (Abt 1782-Abt 1862) 1 2
         Mother: Emily [Unk] (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M Marion Blair ²

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2 M George A. Blair ⁶

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           Born: 24 Dec 1855 - Victory Twp, Venango Co, PA 7
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           Died: 1939
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 8

         Spouse: Mary Ann Sutton (1855-1943) 9
           Marr: 18 Oct 1877 10

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3 M James A. Blair ²

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4 M Elmer E. Blair ²

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5 F Ann Blair ²

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         Spouse: M. McMillan (      -      ) 2

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6 M Ed. Blair ²

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7 F Sarah Blair ⁷

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           Born: Abt 1869
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         Spouse: Elonza S. Eakin (1865-1903)
           Marr: 13 Jan 1888 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA

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8 M Byron Blair ²

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           Born: 1872
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           Died: 1954
         Buried:  - Hickory Grove Cemetery, Victory Twp, Venango Co, PA 11

         Spouse: Lizzie E. Hovis (1872-1949)
           Marr: 29 Nov 1899 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 12

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General Notes: Husband - John H. Blair

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He grew up in Butler County, Pennsylvania, receiving a limited education in the primitive schools then available. When old enough to begin life on his own account he was engaged as a contractor at the Buchanan and Jefferson furnaces in Clarion County for a time, but being ambitious to establish a home of his own he bought a tract of land in October, 1848, 120 acres in Victory Township, Venango County. He did not move there until 1851, a couple of years after his marriage, and he spent the remainder of his active life in the development and improvement of this property which he cleared. After devoting a number of years entirely to agriculture he opened a store on the farm in 1876, and thereafter profitably combined merchandising with farming, managing his affairs thriftily. He mingled in local public affairs, being a well known member of the Democratic Party, held various township offices, and took a helpful part in the activities of the Hebron congregation of the Evangelical Association, with which he was associated during the last twenty-five years of his life, and with which his family was also connected. He was buried in a cemetery on his own farm. [CAB, 623]

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General Notes: Wife - Emily Griffin

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She died on the farm when seventy-six years old.

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1039.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 623.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 144.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1399.

5 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 21.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 539, 623, 704.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 624.

8 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 48.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 539, 624, 704.

10 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 21.

11 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 150.

12 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #4601.