General Information

Birth
29 MAR 1826
Sumner County, Tennessee
Death
7 MAR 1900
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas

Notes

Jesse Lee Blakemore. Prominent among the early settlers and farmers of

Washington County, Ark., are the Blakemores, who first became represented in

this county, in 1831, by Hon. L. C. Blakemore, who was a Tennesseean, born in

1800. He was married to Charlotte Johnson, a native of North Carolina, and on

-coming to Arkansas first located in Fayetteville, where he was engaged in the

hotel business for about two years, and then engaged in farming; was in the

Legislature, and was afterward appointed register of lands. He returned to

Fayetteville, where he filled the duties of that office for four years. He was

afterward chosen to represent Washington County in the State Legislature, and

after serving three or four terms retired to his farm in the country, where he

spent the remainder of his days, dying in August, 1882, at the age of eightytwo

years. He had lived a long, active and useful life, and his death was

lamented by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Jesse L. Blakemore

was born in Sumner County, Tenn., March 29, 1827, and was reared on a brm,

making his heme with his father until he attained his twentieth year, when he

began fighting the battle of life for himself. He enlisted in an independent

company, under Col. S. B. Everett, and served in the Mexican war for about

thirteen months, but although he saw some hard service he was in no battles.

In July, 1848, he 'returned home, and, after making his home with his father

for nearly two years, was married in 1849 to Eliza Jane Wheeler, and began

farming on rented land. In 1852 he bought a farm on White River, which he

-sold at the end of two years and bought his present home. His farm consists of

216 acres, 150 acres of which are under fence and cultivation, and he has a fine

young orchard of 400 apple and peach trees, just beginning to bear. His wife

is a daughter of John A. Wheeler, who :first settled in Yell County, Ark., in

1841. She was born in Campbell County, Tenn., and is the mother of thirteen

children, ten living: Mary (wife of J. J. Pearson), Rally (wife of W. B.

Harrison), Charlotte (wife of W. West), Belle (wife of George Lisenby), Lee D.,

William W., Jesse J., James A., Benjamin I. and Burk F.; those deceased are

John T., Anna E. and Lulie A. Mr. and Mrs. Blakemore are members of the

Methodist Episcopal Church South. and he is a member of the A. F. & A. M.

and the Masonic fraternities.

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1850 Census of Northwest Arkansas:

Washington Counties - Bobbie Jones McLane and Desmond Walls Allen

Cane Hill Township

BLAKEMORE, Jesse L. 22. Eliza [Wheeler, m 1

Nov 1B49, Washington Co.- ARMARRJ 21

TN/TN dwg 97. Cane Hill twp

Parents

Lee Cage Blakemore
- Father
1800 - 1881
Birth
16 NOV 1800
Sumner County, Tennessee
Death
4 AUG 1881
Springdale, Washington County, Arkansas
Charlotte Johnson
- Mother
1798 - 1851
Birth
29 SEP 1798
North Carolina
Death
4 SEP 1851
Springdale, Washington County, Arkansas

Spouse

Eliza Jane Wheeler
- Wife
1829 - 1897
Birth
24 JUL 1829
Campbell County, Tennesse
Married
1849
Death
25 NOV 1897
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Burial
Cane Hill Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas

Children

Charlotte Elizabeth Blakemore
- Daughter
1858 - 1946
Birth
31 OCT 1858
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
10 MAY 1946
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Mary Blakemore
- Daughter
1851 - 1909
Birth
4 MAR 1851
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
2 DEC 1909
Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
Burial
Rhea Cemetery, Washington County, Prairie Grove, Arkansas
Rally Blakemore
- Daughter
Belle Blakemore
- Daughter
1864 - 1936
Birth
20 APR 1864
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
17 JUL 1936
Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
Lee Douglass Blakemore
- Son
1854 - 1938
Birth
8 MAY 1854
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
17 NOV 1938
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Burial
Cane Hill Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas
William Wheeler Blakemore
- Son
1842 - 1910
Birth
1842
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
31 AUG 1910
Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma
Burial
Cane Hill Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas
Jesse J. Blakemore
- Son
1860 - 1950
Birth
1860
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
10 MAY 1950
Brea, Orange County, California
James Andrew Blakemore
- Son
1866 - 1917
Birth
27 OCT 1866
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
28 APR 1917
Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma
Benjamin I. Blakemore
- Son
1871 - 1936
Birth
1871
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
19 MAY 1936
Latimer County, Oklahoma
Burk F. Blakemore
- Son
1875 - 1951
Birth
30 DEC 1875
Death
7 JUL 1951
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Burial
Cane Hill Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas
Lulie A. Blakemore
- Daughter
1868 - 1884
Birth
6 MAR 1868
Death
28 MAY 1884
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Burial
Cane Hill Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas
Sally Tennesse Blakemore
- Daughter
1852 - 1933
Birth
30 MAY 1852
Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas
Death
8 JAN 1933
Poteau, Le Flore County, Oklahoma