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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Susan BLAIR: Birth: 1845 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: in Colbert County, Alabama

  2. Rachel BLAIR: Birth: 1848 in Lawrence County, Tennessee.

  3. Martha Jane BLAIR: Birth: 1 MAY 1849 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 16 NOV 1930 in Colbert County, Alabama

  4. Thomas A. BLAIR: Birth: 1852 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: in Lawrence County, Tennessee

  5. Margaret BLAIR: Birth: 1854 in Lawrence County, Tennessee.

  6. Francis BLAIR: Birth: 1856 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: ABT 1935 in Colbert County, Alabama

  7. Sarah BLAIR: Birth: 1857 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: in Arkansas

  8. Namora BLAIR: Birth: 1860 in Lawrence County, Tennessee.


Sources
1. Title:   Paul Welsh, "History of West Point, Tennesee"
2. Title:   Military records.
3. Title:   Lawrence Co. TN marriage records.
4. Title:   Compiler has copy of document.

Notes
a. Continued:   He was raised by Isaac and Rachel REEDER (relationship uncertain). Rachel gave him her entire estate in 1846 stating that she had raised him from the age of two years old and "he has been like a son to me". Rachel (age 62) was living in William's home in the 1850 census.
b. Continued:   Was wounded at the Battle of Nashville. Remained in hospital for fourteen days before his death on 28 Dec 1864. This was some sort of mobile hospital unit that kept moving with the troops because the daily roster had reports of him and other wounded each day.
c. Note:   iece of Williams step-mother. They were no blood kin to each other.
Note:   This marriage sounds almost incestous at first glance. Sarah was the n


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