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Emily Clarissa Houston and Newton Blair

NEWTON BLAIR was born June 6, 1817 in Chilicothe, Ross, Ohio, and died January 31, 1883 in Solomon, Dickinson, Kansas.6278, 6279 He is buried in Prairie Mound Cemetery, Solomon, Dickinson, Kansas.456, 6280

He married EMILY CLARISSA HOUSTON on November 18, 1841 in Schuyler County, Illinois,7295 daughter of ELIZABETH PURDY and CALEB HOUSTON. She was born in 1822 in Indiana, and died August 13, 1906 in Riverside, Riverside, California.4722 She is buried in Prairie Mound Cemetery, Solomon, Dickinson, Kansas.4722, 456

Children of EMILY CLARISSA HOUSTON and NEWTON BLAIR:

  1. MARY EVALINE BLAIR, b. 1843; m. TILGHMAN HOWARD STRICKLER on March 26, 1868 in Solomon, Kansas4749; d. November 22, 1880.4750
  2. LEONIDAS R. BLAIR, b. January, 1844, Keokuk, Lee, Iowa;456 d. July 9, 1846, Des Moines County, Iowa;456 bur. Kossuth Cemetery, Mediapolis, Des Moines, Iowa.456
  3. CHARLES NORRIS BLAIR, b. December 8, 1845, Kossuth, Des Moines, Iowa;4783 m. LAMOILLE LUCY PARISH on June 30, 1870 in Manhattan, Riley, Kansas4694; d. March 1, 1909, Saline County, Kansas.4783
  4. EDGAR WILSON BLAIR, b. May 12, 1847, Kossuth, Des Moines, Iowa;706 m. EMMA ANN MCCLURE on January 11, 18724754; d. February 10, 1929, Jefferson, Cole, Missouri.706
  5. REV. HENRY JAMES BLAIR, b. 1848; m. MALINDA JANE CARTRIGHT on January 3, 1870 in Miami County, Kansas4694; d. January 12, 1916, Springfield, Lane, Oregon.5483
  6. SARAH ELIZABETH BLAIR, b. January 8, 1850, Kossuth County, Iowa;250, 8224 m. (1) ANDREW PERRY COLLINS on March 26, 18688224, m. (2) JOHN WILGUS COVERT; d. March 11, 1946, Riverside, Riverside, California.250, 11855
  7. ALBERT HOUSTON BLAIR, b. December 12, 1851, Iowa;456 m. SALOME ANNETTE PIERSON on January 1, 1880 in Presbyterian Church, Solomon City, Kansas9801, 9802; d. May 26, 1951.456
  8. HELEN BRUCE BLAIR, b. September 3, 1853;456 m. KOSCIUSKO GLEN FLEMING in 18738295; d. August 5, 1929.456
  9. HARRIET WINSLOW BLAIR, b. September 3, 1853, Kossuth, Des Moines, Iowa;456 m. JAMES HENRY CARKHUFF on October 29, 1874 in Junction City, Geary, Kansas8288; d. May 29, 1936, Santa Ana, Orange, California.8260
  10. THOMAS SPENCER BLAIR, b. October 10, 1856, Iowa;706 d. March 19, 1943, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri.706
  11. BRYSON PURDY BLAIR, b. June 1, 1861, Iowa;1669 m. (1) NELLIE J. TUCKER on November 29, 1890 in De Beque, Mesa, Colorado10815, m. (2) LILLIAN MAMIE HALE on July 23, 1907 in Montrose, Montrose, Colorado8261, m. (3) MARY DIXON on June 15, 1914 in Rock Island County, Illinois4635, 11838, m. (4) SARAH HELEN STILLWELL on March 31, 1925 in Santa Ana, Orange, California3541; d. May 15, 1947, rural Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.1669
  12. ADA F. BLAIR, b. June 20, 1869, Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas;456 d. 1870;456 bur. Prairie Mound Cemetery, Solomon, Dickinson, Kansas.456
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Solomon Sentinel, February 7, 18836280

Died, January 31, Newton Blair, Esq., of pneumonia, aged 66 years. Funeral services were held at Presbyterian church, Friday, Feb. 2, Rev. Mr. Pierson, the pastor, officiating. Although the day was very cold, the funeral services were well attended, and a large line of carriages followed the remains to the Solomon cemetery. The deceased was one of the oldest settlers, a staunch member of the Presbyterian church, and respected by all for his good Christian qualities.

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Topeka Daily Capital, February 13, 18836278

There has been considerable sickness here lately, which has resulted fatally in some few instances, the latest being Mr. Newton Blair, who died January 31st of pneumonia. Mr. Blair was aged 66 years and one of the oldest settlers here. He was universally liked and respected, and a large circle of friends mourn his loss. He was the father-in-law of Hon. A. P. Collins, one of the representatives to the Legislature from Saline county.

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German-American Advocate, February 14, 18836279

Mr. Blair died at his home, near Solomon City, in this state, at 10 o'clock last Wednesday night. Mr. Blair had been prostrated several days with pneumonia. Mrs. E. W. Blair, all of this city, had been at the bedside of the deceased most of the time since last Monday. Mr. Newton Blair was sixty-seven or sixty-eight years of age at the time of his death. He was a thoroughly good man. The fuenral and burial services took place at Solomon City.

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Salina Journal, August 18, 19064722

HAD 80 DESCENDANTS

MRS. EMILY BLAIR DIED IN CALIFORNIA LAST MONDAY.

Funeral Was Held at Solomon Yesterday Afternoon—Lived in Kansas 40 Years—Known Here.

Mrs. Emily Blair died at Riverside, Calif., last Monday, while visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. P. Collins a[n]d the funeral was held at Solomon yesterday, the services being conducted by Rev. J. N. Rankin, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Culver, and formerly of Solomon, where he was pastor of the church of which the deceased had been a member for forty years.

Mrs. Blair was one of the early settlers in central Kansas, coming here from Iowa with her husband, Newton Blair, in 1866. Mr. Blair homesteaded a claim just south of the Smoky Hill river near Solomon. A few years later Asiatic cholera broke out and swept central Kansas and many settlers died from it. Mrs. Blair heroically went into the stricken homes and nursed cholera patients until she herself was stricken with the dread disease. She was one of the very few who recovered frof [sic] the plauge.

Tremendous changes have taken place in this part of Kansas since Mrs. Blair came here forty years ago. At that time there were comparatively few settlers west of Junction City. One of her daughters, now Mrs. A. P. Collins taught the first school in Solomon. Newton Blair, her husband, died at Solomon in 1883. One of Mrs. Blair's brothers in S. D., Houston, is one of the few surviving members of the first territorial legislature held in Kansas. Mr. Houston is still active, and makes his home with his daughter Mrs. Luke Parsons, east of Salina.

Mrs. Blair had nearly eighty descendants at the time of her death, a large number of whom attended the funeral yesterday afternoon. She is survived by six sons and three daughters. They are: Rev. Henry Blair of Washingont; C. N. Blair of Solomon; E. W. Blair, formerly county attorney of Saline county, now of Joplin, Mo.; A. H. Blair of Wakeeney, until recently register of the land office at Colby; T. S. Blair, a business man of Kansas City; D. P. Blair, register of the land office at Montrose, Col.; Mrs. A. P. Collins, for many years a resident of Salina, but now of Riverside, Calif.; Mrs. K. S. Fleming of Solomon, and Mrs. J. H. Carkhuff of Abilene. Besides these Mrs. Blair had thirty-nine grandchildren and thirty great-grandchildren. Two of her grandchildren, W. N. and Herbert Blair, are missionaries in Korea; another, O. E. Collins is assistant prosecuting attorney of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and another, D. E. Blair, is a prominent attorney at Joplin, Mo. Three of the grandchildren, Walter and Herman Carkhuff and Mrs. C. H. Matson, live in Topeka.

Mrs. Blair went to California last fall to spend the winter with her daughter, but she was taken with heart failure last spring, which caused her death Monday. The body was accompanied to Solomon by Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Fleming. Four of the six sons reached Solomon in time to attend the funeral, and acted as pallbearers.

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Census Records
DateLocationEnumerated Names
September 12, 18501704Yellow Springs Township, Des Moines, Iowa
June 11, 18601703Yellow Springs Township, Des Moines, Iowa
June 18, 18704747Newbern, Dickinson, Kansas
March 1, 18754781Lincoln, Dickinson, Kansas
June 8, 18804748Lincoln, Dickinson, Kansas


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