Robert Blair and Nancy Eakin

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Husband Robert Blair ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - ? Ireland
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           Died: 
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       Marriage: 

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Robert Blair.

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Wife Nancy Eakin ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - ? Ireland
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           Died: 
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Children

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1 M 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 4

         Spouse: Emily Griffin (1827-1902) 2
           Marr: 2 Jan 1849 - Butler Co, PA 1 2

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2 F Eliza Blair ^{3 5}

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Thomas Eakin (1818-Aft 1895) 3 5
           Marr: 27 Mar 1845 5

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Blair

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They left Ireland in 1828, coming by way of Canada and settling in western Pennsylvania. Their first location was in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, whence they removed the following year to a place in Butler County near the borough of Emlenton. He met an accidental death when sixty years old, being fatally injured by a horse.

Did he possibly marry again, to Jane "Aunt Jenny" Campbell? HBC 1883, 451 & 452

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General Notes: Wife - Nancy Eakin

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She died while still a young woman.

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

4 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.

5 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1320.