Jesse Lee Blakemore

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