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Richard Solomon BLACKWELL
(1853 –1937)

 

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1. Margaret Malinda COBBS

Richard Solomon BLACKWELL 2 3
  • Born: 1 April 1853, Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA
  • Marriage (1): Margaret Malinda COBBS on 10 September 1885 in Canyon City, Grant County, Oregon, USA 1
  • Died: 8 July 1937, Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA at age 84 4
  • Buried: 1937, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
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bullet  Burial Notes

River View Cemetery

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • Other Spouses: Martha C. Byrd (1850-1876, m. Sep 1870).
  • Parents: Clement Cude Blackwell and Jane Esther Morris.
  • He appeared on the 1910 US Federal Census on 19 April 1910 in Hamilton, Grant County, Oregon, USA. 5 Hamilton, Grant County, Oregon, USA (R.S., age 57)
  • He appeared on the 1920 US Federal Census on 31 January 1920 in North Fork, Grant County, Oregon, USA. 6 North Fork, Grant County, Oregon, USA (Richard S., age 66)
  • His obituary was published in The Oregonian on 10 July 1937 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.

    INDIAN WAR VET CALLED BY DEATH

    Richard Solomon Blackwell, 84, pioneer Oregon resident and veteran of the Bannock Indian war, died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. M. Colvin of Oregon City. Funeral services will be held in Oregon City Monday, with interment in Riverview cemetery.

    Born April 1, 1853, at Van Buren, Ark., he married Martha C. Byrd in September of 1870. She bore him three children, William C., Nancy and John Ann Blackwell.

    Following the death of his first wife, he married Margaret M. Cobb in 1885. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1935. Six children survive from this union. They are Miner L. and Sherman Blackwell of Monument, Or.; James B. of Yachats, Mrs. D. R. Long of Ione, Or.; Mrs. E. M. Colvin of Oregon City and Mrs. A. C. Ford of Portland.

    Crossing the great plains by mule-team in 1875, Mr. Blackwell settled in Grant county, Or., engaging in farming and stock raising there for the greater part of his life. He moved to Portland four years ago.
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Richard married Margaret Malinda COBBS, daughter of James Murray COBBS and Mary Jane TETRICK, on 10 September 1885 in Canyon City, Grant County, Oregon, USA.1 (Margaret Malinda COBBS was born on 14 March 1865 in Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri, USA,7 died on 22 October 1942 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA 8 and was buried in 1942 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. FamilySearch Historical Record Collections, Oregon, Marriages, 1853 –1935.
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 102. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  4. Oregon State Government, Oregon Historical Records Index.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC).
  6. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC).
  7. Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls; and Minnesota Census Schedules for 1870, NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, DC), James Cobbs household, Mount Vernon Township, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA.
  8. Ancestry.com, Oregon, Death Index, 1898 – 2008 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of Oregon. Oregon Death Index, 1903 –1998. Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Archives and Records Center; and Oregon Death Indexes, 1903 –1970 and Oregon Death Indexes, 1971– 2008; Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Library).


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