This is the
second section of a booklet that I put together for my father-in-law’s 96th birthday. His parents were Clifford Franklin and Bertha
Bryan Blackmore. Section two is about
Clifford’s parents. Future postings will
include the other parents and grandparents of Clifford and Bertha and will
include Blincow and Doyle surnames. I
have also included a small amount of information about the siblings of these
direct ancestors.
George
Marlin Blackmore and Mary Blincow
George
Marlin BLACKMORE was born on 27 March 1865 in Odell, Livingston County,
Illinois to Thomas Greenslade Blackmore and Jane Francis Lemon. Sometime in the 1870s George with his family
moved to Nebraska. In the 1880 census
George and his parents were living in North Platte, Nebraska and in 1885
they were living in McFadden in York County, Nebraska.
George married Mary Elizabeth “Polly” BLINCOW. “Polly” was born on 3 May 1869 in
Long Buckby, England. She was the
daughter of William A Blincow and Betsy Wikes Howe. This family emigrated from
England about 1872.
In 1885 the Blackmore family and the
Blincow family lived next to each other in York, Nebraska. Then on 30 December 1887 Polly married George
in York. They lived in Nebraska, for a
brief time in Kansas as Mattie Hazel was there and then they moved to Colorado.
Mary and George had eight
children: Henry Irvin, Clifford
Franklin, Ada Florence, Mattie Hazel, Harold Robert, Leonard, Reba Martha and
George Raymond Blackmore.
According to different census
records, George was a teamster (1900) and a house carpenter (1910) in Granite,
Colorado, and a farmer (1920) in Rifle, Colorado. However, in the 1906 Colorado State
Business Directory it stated that George M Blackmore owned a meat market. George’s brother Calvin owned a meat market
in 1896. Did George buy this from his
brother Calvin who then moved?
In 1940 George and Mary lived “in
town” at 239 Fifth Street, Rifle. George
died on 13 November 1949 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado and he was buried
in November 1949 in Rifle. Polly died on
23 January 1951 and she was also buried in Rifle.
Children
of George and Mary Blincow Blackmore
Henry Irvin Blackmore was
born on 8 December 1888 in McCool, Nebraska. I believe he died in January 1898
in Granite, Chaffee County, Colorado. No
further information is known about him.
Clifford Franklin Blackmore
was born on 16 February 1890 in McCool, Nebraska. He married Bertha Jane Bryan on 10
November 1914 in Winchester, California.
More complete information about this family is found in the first
section of this blog series.
Ada Florence Blackmore was
born on 1 November 1891 in Fairmont, Nebraska. By 1900 Ada and her family were living in
Granite, Colorado. Ada married Edward Loesch on 29 June 1913 in
Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Edward was
born on 4 January 1889 in Colorado. His
parents were Jacob B Loesch and Julia A Voltz.
According to the World War I Draft Registration card, Edward was short,
stout and had blue eyes and light brown hair.
Edward and Ada had five
children: three boys (Edward Jacob, George
Wallace and Russell Eugene) and two girls (Mary Idell and Lois Ada). All of the children were born in
Colorado. Edward and Ada lived in
Granite County, but according to various census records, their farms were in
the towns of Divide, South Rifle and Silt.
Edward died on 31 January 1952 in Colorado. Ada died in August 1982 in Rifle,
Colorado.
Mattie Hazel Blackmore was
born on 4 February 1893 in Colby, Thomas County, Kansas. She married Otis Albert Mallory on 26 July
1914 in Rifle, Colorado. Otis was born on 26 July 1886 in Wills Gulch,
Gilpin County, Colorado.
Otis and Mattie had six children,
four boys (Albert “Marlin”, Clayton Kent, Lloyd Raymond and Gene) and two girls
(Phyllis Marie and Mary Margie). Gene
died when he was about six weeks old. He
is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. Another
son, Albert Marlin died at age 22. He is
also buried in this cemetery.
Otis was a farmer but in a 1928 city
directory it stated that he and Mattie were living in Grand Junction and he was
working for the Holly Sugar Corp.
Then in 1940 Otis was working in
Brea, California, for a citrus fruit company.
It is unknown how long they lived in California but Otis was listed in
the 1948 voter registration list for Orange County, California.
Otis died on 24 October 1949 and he is
buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Colorado.
Mattie died on 4 January 1958 in Brea, Orange County, California.
Harold Robert Blackmore was born
on 23 June 1895 in Granite, Colorado.
Harold married Florence Moore on 19 November 1923 in Glenwood Springs,
Colorado. When looking at postcards, parts of the town look
less developed, but Glenwood Springs appears to have been a resort area because
the town had at least two large hotels, springs and even a large wood slide for
the children to use to go into some water.
I don’t know if it was a lake or springs though.
In 1930 Harold and Florence were
living in Phoenix, Arizona. Florence was
a nurse and Harold was a lettuce packer.
A 1932 Reno, Nevada, newspaper stated that Florence Blackmore and Harold
Blackmore were granted a divorce decree.
After the divorce I don’t have any more information about Florence.
On 31 December 1935 Harold married
Alta Lucine Gwynn in Rifle. Alta was
born about 11 September 1913 in Thermopolis, Wyoming. They had no children.
Harold died on 8 March 1979 in
Rifle.
Alta died on 11 May 2006 also in
Rifle, Colorado. The obituary for Alta
ran in four Colorado newspapers. This
one is from the Vail Daily News on May 17, 2006
Leonard S Blackmore was born
on 4 April 1898 and died a few months later on 26 August 1898, in Granite,
Colorado. Leonard was buried in Home of
Peace Cemetery in Weld, Colorado.
Reba Martha Blackmore was
born on 7 December 1900 in Granite, Colorado.
Reba married Emery Clifford Harlow on 14 August 1921 in Meeker,
Colorado. Often Emery went by the name
Clifford. He was born on 30 November
1898 in Glenwood Springs, Garfield County.
From his World War I Draft Registration card it indicated that he was
tall and slender and had blue eyes and light brown hair.
Cliff and Reba had one boy Gerald
Vincent and one girl Gladys Maxine. Both
of them were born in Colorado. Cliff was
generally a farmer; however in the 1940 census he was listed as a proprietor of
a “Gasoline Filling Station” in Rifle, Colorado. Cliff and Reba both died in Rifle: Cliff on
27 February 1968 and Reba in 1974. They
were buried in the Moose Lodge Section of Rose Hill Cemetery in Rifle.
George Raymond Blackmore was
born on 17 May 1904 in Granite, Colorado.
He married Nettie Wright on 7 March 1928 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Nettie was the daughter of Barnabas
Wright and Daisy Raymond and was born on 9 March 1907 in Garfield County. George and Nettie had three children, Harold
Elmer, Irene Loraine and Dorothy Rae.
Nettie died on 14 January 1956 in Rifle.
According to a book written by Clifford F Blackmore, George then married
Zella, last name unknown, on 21 February 1960.
They probably married in Colorado since it appears that George spent his
entire life in that state.
George died on 12 July 1967 in Grand
Junction, Colorado. No further
information is known about Zella.
