Emma Ann McClure and Edgar Wilson Blair

EDGAR WILSON BLAIR, son of EMILY CLARISSA HOUSTON and NEWTON BLAIR, was born May 12, 1847 in Kossuth, Des Moines, Iowa,⁷⁰⁶ and died February 10, 1929 in Jefferson, Cole, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶ He is buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas.^{706, 456}

He married EMMA ANN MCCLURE on January 11, 1872.⁴⁷⁵⁴ She was born October 16, 1849 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio,⁷⁰⁶ and died August 13, 1929 in Jefferson, Cole, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶ She is buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas.^{706, 456}

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  • Samuel Houston Descendant Report (Ancestor of Edgar W. Blair)

Children of EMMA ANN MCCLURE and EDGAR WILSON BLAIR:

1. CHARLES WILSON BLAIR, b. December 14, 1872;⁴⁵⁶ d. September 11, 1878;⁴⁵⁶ bur. Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶
2. DAVID ELLMORE BLAIR, b. August 16, 1874, Salina, Saline, Kansas;⁷⁰⁶ m. MARY ELEANOR HENLEY in 1902; d. December 28, 1954, Springfield, Greene, Missouri.^{4766, 706}
3. DR. WILLIAM NEWTON BLAIR, b. July 11, 1876, Salina, Saline, Kansas;⁶²⁹ m. EDITH PEARL ALLEN on June 6, 1901 in First Methodist Episcopal Church, Solomon, Kansas⁴⁷⁵⁶; d. May 2, 1970, Duarte, Los Angeles, California.⁴⁵⁶
4. REV. HERBERT EDGAR BLAIR, b. September 27, 1878, Salina, Saline, Kansas;⁶²⁹ m. SUSAN BROKENSHIRE GILLETT on June 25, 1907 in Korea⁴⁵⁶; d. February 20, 1945, Phillipines.^{10042, 456}
5. MABEL EMMA BLAIR, b. December 15, 1880;⁴⁵⁶ d. March 21, 1883;⁴⁵⁶ bur. Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶
6. SUMNER HOUSTON BLAIR, b. October 31, 1884, Solomon, Kansas;⁷⁰⁶ m. ELMA RHODA SIEBEL on December 20, 1908 in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas^{4755, 4694}; d. September 6, 1947, Richmond Heights, St. Louis, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶



Work History

Obituaries

Sedalia Democrat, February 11, 1929⁴⁷⁵³

FATHER OF JUDGE DAVID E. BLAIR DEAD

By The Associated Press.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 11.—Funeral services for Edgar W. Blair, 81, father of Supreme Court Justice David E. Blair, will be held in the Presbyterian church here tomorrow morning. The body will be taken to Salina, Kansas, for burial.

Judge Blair was called home from the annual Lincoln Day banquet of the association of young republicans of Missouri by the death of his father, which occurred last night. Angina pectoris was the cause of death.

The elder Blair is survived by his wife, three brothers and three sisters, and four sons. The sons are David E., supreme judge of Missouri; William N., and Herbert E., missionaries in Korea, and Summer H. of St. Louis.

Born in Kossuth, Iowa, in 1847, Edgar W. Blair moved to Salina, Kansas, where he practiced the legal profession for a number of years, later moving to Joplin where he continued his law practice. He came to Jefferson City after the election of his son to the supreme bench in 1921.

Jefferson City Post-Tribune, August 13, 1929⁴⁷⁵⁴

MOTHER OF JUDGE DAVID E. BLAIR DIED TUESDAY

Became Ill While Attending Funeral of Sister In Iowa Month Ago.

HUSBAND DIED FIVE MONTHS AGO

Had Been Making Home With Son—Interment At Salina, Kan.

Mrs. Emma A. Blair, mother of Judge David E. Blair, of the Missouri Supreme Court, died at the home of Judge Blair Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, of infirmaties due to old age.

Mrs. Blair was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 16, 1849. She married Edgar W. Blair January 11, 1872. He died in Jefferson City February 10, 1929. Suriving are four sons, David E. Blair of Jefferson City; William N. Blair, Presbyterian missionary, Pyeng Wang, Korea; Herbert E. Blair, Taikyu, Korea, also a missionary but on furlough and at his mother's bedside when she passed away, and Sumner H. Blair of Webster Groves, Mo., electrical engineer for S. W. Bell Telephone, Co., at St. Louis.

Mrs. Blair was the last one of a family of eleven children born to William and Nancy McClure. An older sister, Mrs. Juliet Montgomery, has lived with Mrs. Blair in Jefferson City much of the time until about a year ago. Mrs. Montgomery died July 24th and it was in attending her funeral that mrs. Blair became ill in Fairfield, Iowa.

Mrs. Blair and her late husband were devoted members of the Presbyterian Church in this city as well as in Joplin, Mo., and Salina, Kansas. The many friends of the family in those cities as well as in Jefferson City feel a distinct loss at the passing of "Mother" Blair.

Interment will be at Salina, Kansas Thursday where two children who died in infancy many years ago, and her late husband are buried. A brief service will be held at the residence of Judge David Blair 1120 Moreau Drive, at 10 o'clock a. m. tomorrow.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
September 12, 18501704	Yellow Springs Township, Des Moines, Iowa	Newton Blair Emily Clarissa Houston Mary Evaline Blair Charles Norris Blair Edgar Wilson Blair Henry James Blair Sarah Elizabeth Blair
June 11, 18601703	Yellow Springs Township, Des Moines, Iowa	Newton Blair Emily Clarissa Houston Mary Evaline Blair Charles Norris Blair Edgar Wilson Blair Henry James Blair Albert Houston Blair Harriet Winslow Blair Helen Bruce Blair Thomas Spencer Blair
February 1, 18714751	Junction City, Davis, Kansas	Edgar Wilson Blair
June 8, 18804752	WaKeeney, Trego, Kansas	Edgar Wilson Blair Emma Ann McClure David Ellmore Blair William Newton Blair Herbert Edgar Blair
June 8, 1900491	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Edgar Wilson Blair Emma Ann McClure Sumner Houston Blair
May 20, 1910734	Joplin, Jasper, Missouri	Edgar Wilson Blair Emma Ann McClure
January 16, 1920705	Joplin, Jasper, Missouri	Edgar Wilson Blair Emma Ann McClure