Joseph A Blackman & Ann Flowers

!NOTES:Marty Grant's 2nd cousin, 4 times removed.

!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/blackman/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/lane/

!NOTES:Was not named in a deed dated 17 Feb 1848 from John Blackman to his children, so probably born later that same year.;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 255/256
John Blackman 35 Farmer $1000 Marion
Ann 40
Hamilton 10
Mary 8
Elizabeth 7
John 6
Peter 2 <--- (sic);

!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist., SC Marion, Marion CH PO # 215/214
John Blackman 48 Farmer $1400/3000 SC
Anna 50
H. 20 m Farmer $-/300
M. A. 18 f
H. G. 14 m
Jos 12;

!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Marion # 404/413
John Blackman 62 Farmer $1875/480 SC
Anna 70 Keeping House
Joseph 21 Farm Labor
Mary Ann 23 at home;

!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co., SC Marion # 352/356
Joseph A. Blackman 31 S ~ SC-SC-SC
Mary A. 35 sister S;

!MARRIAGE:From the Marion Star - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 386-395
...
Osborne Lane married a Miss Crawford, a sister of old James Crawford, of Spring Branch-I suppose, older than her brother. The Crawfords were quite respectable in that day and have continued to be so down to the present time. The fruits of the marriage, as known, were eight sons, John, Thomas, Alexander, James, Robert, David, Stephen and William, and two daughters, Kesiah and Elizabeth.
...
Of the daughters, one, Elizabeth, married old John Blackman, a son of the old Tory John, that Colonel Murphy tied and whipped ; by this marriage were three children born and raised, as known to the writer- Stephen Blackman and John, called Jack ; the name of the daughter was Elizabeth, or Betsey; when an old maid, she became the second wife of Rev. John D. Coleman, below Marion ; both are dead ; don't know whether she left any children or not. Stephen Blackman married some one, to the writer not known ; he died many years ago, and left a son, William, called Billy Blackman, and is now a middle-aged man and lives somewhere in the Latta neighborhood ; married, and has a family. John (Jack) Blackman married a Miss Bird, a sister of the late Hugh and Joe Bird, of the Toby's Creek section ; by her he raised two sons, Joseph A. and Hamilton, who, like their father, were good soldiers in the war. Hamilton was killed about Charleston, S. C. Joe died since the war, leaving several children; his widow married again, Robert C. Rogers, of Wahee Township ; know nothing of Joseph A. Blackman's children, suppose some or all of them are grown. John (Jack) Blackman was married a second time, late in life, to Caroline Mears, and by her had and raised one or two sons- one, named John, is as much like old John as it- is possible for a young man to favor an old man ; these sons are in the Mullins section. Old John (Jack) died in 1895, in June, and was ninety years of age in December before he died, as brave and patriotic as any man that ever lived in the county, and as honest as the days were long. ;

Marty and Karla Grant

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