Susan Brokenshire Gillett and Herbert Edgar Blair

REV. HERBERT EDGAR BLAIR, son of EMMA ANN MCCLURE and EDGAR WILSON BLAIR, was born September 27, 1878 in Salina, Saline, Kansas,⁶²⁹ and died February 20, 1945 in Phillipines.^{10042, 456}

He married SUSAN BROKENSHIRE GILLETT on June 25, 1907 in Korea.⁴⁵⁶ She was born January 12, 1877 in Illinois,²⁵⁰ and died September 25, 1966 in Los Angeles County, California.²⁵⁰

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  • Samuel Houston Descendant Report (Ancestor of Herbert E. Blair)

Children of SUSAN BROKENSHIRE GILLETT and REV. HERBERT EDGAR BLAIR:

1. MARY GILLETT BLAIR, b. December 21, 1908, Taiku, South Korea;⁶²⁹ m. REV. ARTHUR ROBERT HARRISON on April 6, 1940 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania¹⁰⁰⁴⁴; d. January 16, 1995, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.⁶¹³
2. HONORA MCCLURE BLAIR, b. June 8, 1910, South Korea;⁴⁵⁶ d. July, 1919, South Korea;⁴⁵⁶ bur. Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery, Seoul, South Korea.⁴⁵⁶
3. SUSAN BROKENSHIRE BLAIR, b. March 20, 1912, Kangei, South Korea;^{629, 4532} m. VICTOR WADE MACY on June 2, 1936 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania²⁹⁸⁵; d. October 18, 1997, Stanwood, Snohomish, Washington;⁴⁵⁶ bur. Anderson Cemetery, East Stanwood, Snohomish, Washington.⁴⁵⁶
4. MARGARET HOUSTON BLAIR, b. February 27, 1915, Seoul, South Korea.⁶²⁹
5. HULDAH LORING BLAIR, b. July 24, 1917, Taiku, South Korea;⁶²⁹ m. DR. ARCHIBALD GREY FLETCHER on August 3, 1946 in First Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania²⁹⁸⁵; d. November 10, 1999, California;⁴⁵³² bur. Live Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia, Los Angeles, California.⁴⁵⁶



Work History

Obituaries

Springfield Leader and Press, March 17, 1945¹⁰⁰⁴²

Brother of Judge Succumbs at Manila

Just two days before American troops liberated internees in the Los Banos camp north of Manila, Rev. Herbert Edgar Blair died there—"probably from malnutrition"—according to word received by his brother, David E. Blair, judge of the Springfield court of appeals.

In a letter from the Presbyterian board of foreign missions, under whose auspices Rev. Mr. Blair had spent more than 30 years in the Far East, Judge Blair was told of his brother's death.

A doctor who was in the camp had informed the board that he had officiated at Rev. Mr. Blair's funeral, and of the probably cause of death.

Rev. Mr. Blair and his wife—who is evidently well because she has sent word to her daughter in New York of her father's death—were missionaries in Korea when first taken prisoner by the Japanese.

They escaped, however, going to Shanghai and then to Manila with the understanding that they were on their way home.

This was about December 1, 1941. Some of the Korean missionaries were given passage home but the board asked some—Rev. Mr. Blair and his wife among them—to stay in Manila.

The Japanese invasion caught them there, and they were immediately interned. SInce that time Judge Blair has had no direct word from his brother.

Daily News-Post, September 30, 1966¹⁰⁰⁴³

BLAIR — SUSAN G., passed away September 25, 1966. Missionary for 39 years. Survived by four daughters, Mrs. Mary Harrison of Saginaw, Mich.; Mrs. Susan Macy of Rhodesia, South Africa; Mrs. Hulda Fletcher of Miraj, India; and Miss Margaret Blair of Vineland, N.J.; brother-in-law, Rev. William Blair of Duarte; and sister-in-law Mrs. Lewis Gillett of Portola Valley, Calif. Services Monday, 3 p.m., Westminster Gardens, Fellowship Hall. Douglass & Zook Mortuary directors. Interment, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 8, 18804752	WaKeeney, Trego, Kansas	Edgar Wilson Blair Emma Ann McClure David Ellmore Blair William Newton Blair Herbert Edgar Blair
April 4, 19307642	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey	Herbert Edgar Blair Susan Brokenshire Gillett Mary Gillett Blair Susan Brokenshire Blair Margaret Houston Blair Huldah Loring Blair