Re: Sam Blackshear (Blackshare) Clay Co., AR
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Sam Blackshear (Blackshare) Clay Co., AR
Talmage Hawthorne 6/17/01
I think this may be the parents to whom you refer.Hope this helps.
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JAMES BLACKSHIR (BLACKSHEAR?), b. Obion Co., Tenn., 19 Aug 1824, son of Mary Berry and Jacob Blackshir.D. in Clay Co., Ark. Wife No. 1, SARAH ANNE DINES, b. Tenn. in 1828.D. 1857. M. 27 May, 1847. Issue No. 1 William Samuel, m. No. 1 Emily S. Cox, m. No. 2, Aneliza Ellis.No. 2, Robert, b. 1851.D. 1884, No. 3, Sidney, b. 1853, d. 1884, No. 4 James Thomas, m. Gentry, No. 5 Jacob Lynden, b. 1857.Issue 2, 3, 4, & 5 born in McNairy Co., Tenn.Wife No. 2, Mrs. RUTH EMALENE (RIGGS) EVANS, b. Tenn., m. 14 March, 1858. Issue No. 6 Infant, b. 1859, died in infancy, No. 7 Mary, b. 1861, No. 8 John S., b. 1863, o. 9 Ora, No. 10 Ira, No. 11 Lee. Treasurer of Clay Co., Ark., 1874-1876-1878. "My grandfather came from McNairy Co., Tenn. I was a small boy when he died. He was 6'3" tall.None of his sons were
under 6'3"."R. I. Blackshire. "My grandfather moved to Clay Co., Ark., in 1857 or 1858." Plaut L. Blackshire.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF
NORTHEAST ARKANSAS, 1889.
The Goodspeed Publishing Company. 1889
CLAY COUNTY
Pages 201-202:
"JAMES BLACKSHARE. Among all classes and in every condition of life where the struggle for a livelihood is going on, where will independence be found more clearly demonstrated than in the life of the honest, industrious farmer?Mr. Blackshare, who has followed agricultural pursuits for the past fifty-two years, and who has never missed a crop during the years thus spent, is a fair example of the tiller of the soil.He was born in West Tennessee, in 1824, and is the son of Rev. Jacob and Mary (Barry) Blackshare, the father of a native Tennessee, born in 1802, and the mother born in 1799.James Blackshare was left motherless at the age of ten years, and May 27, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Dines, who bore him five sons: William S., a member of the firm of Blackshare & Co., in the manufacturing of staves and in the general milling business, is married and the father of six children: Robert B. (deceased), left a widow and five children; James T., lives on a farm near Boydsville, is married and the father of three sons, and Jacob L., farmer near Boydsville, is married and the father of two sons and two daughters, The mother of these children died in 1857. March 14, 1858, Mr. Blackshare took for his second wife Mrs. Ruth E. Evans of Tennessee, and in the fall of the same year he and family moved to Clay County, (then Greene County) Ark., and settled on the farm where he is now residing, three miles northeast of Boydsville, which consisted of eighty acres, to which he added eighty more. To his last marriagewere born six children, three of whom survive at the present: Mary F., wife of Dr. John J. Prince, and the mother of one daughter, resides at Bethel Station, Tenn., where her husband follows his profession and is also engaged in merchandising;John S., a merchant at Rector, married and the father of one child, a daughter; Ora A., the wife of A. J. Burton, and the mother of three children, two daughters and a son, is now living near her father where her husband is occupied in farming; IRA E., died in his sixteenth year.Mr. Blackshare came to this State with his wife and seven children in two wagons, drawn by oxen, being the owner of seven or eight head of cattle, six or eight head of horses, and about $200 in money.The first winter before there were gins introduced into the country, the cotton, which they picked with their fingers, was made into clothing for the family.There were no mills then except little hand mills, which were only used to grind corn, and were called corn crackers.They would crack the kernel into about four pieces.A few years later Mr. Blackshare raised a little wheat and ground it in the same mills and "sarcht it"; this consisted of a box with a muslin cloth over it, opened at one end, on which was dropped some of the meal, and then by a rocking motion the bran was forced to the top and back through the opening at the rear, while the fine flour passed through the muslin into the box.At that time trading was done by exchanging pelting and furs for salt, sugar, coffee, etc., at Cape Girardeau, Mo., 100 miles distant, to which place they made their trips with ox teams about once a year.Mr. Blackshare has not taken a drink of liquor of any kind, or a chew of tobacco, for over forty years, or since joining the church, and has always been willing to render aid, as far as he was able, to all laudable enterprises.He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Blackshare was township magistrate for four terms of two years each, and was also county treasurer for two terms. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is one of the representative men of the county.He is now the owner of 340 acres of land, after having supported his family and settled nine children at an expense of $14,000, and does not owe a cent."
Cit. 1850 Census McNairy Co., Tenn. Father's Bible via P. L. Blackshire, Bellefonte, Ark. (1953). Ls. Mrs. C. H. Metcalf, Sarasota, Fla. James Osmer Blackshire, Albuquerque, N. M. 1953. Hempstead's History of Ark. p. 1143 Clay Co., 1893 via Mrs. V. S. Veitch, Washington, D. C. L. R. I. Blackshare, Little Rock, Ark. 1953. Biographical Historical Memoirs of NE Ark. 1889, Goodspeed Pub. Co.
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