Well, this one about blew me away. This was my Aunt Lena (b. 8 June 1893, d. 21 July 1981) sister of my grandmother, Lula Gadsey Blake. She was the daughter of Isaac Blake and Martha (Mattie) Dorman and the granddaughter of Thomas Blake and Delaney Young, and Allen Dorman and Aurilla Vickers. She was from a family of nine daughters and one son, the below mentioned Bud (Forney Linton) Blake. (More below announcement) << MISS BLAKE MAY BE CANDIDATE The Cleburne News is reliably informed that Miss Lena Blake, 28, is seriously considering entering the 1930 Democratic Primary for tax collector of Cleburne county and provided she decides to become a candidate, will make formal announcement the early part of the new year. Miss Blake, who is the sister of "Bud" Blake, with whom she has made her home for the past several years, received her education in the rural and Heflin schools. She is active in all civic undertakings. >> I never would have thought Aunt Lena would run for public office. She just didn't seem to be the type. In 1940, she married Seaborn Hearn, a widower with five children, and moved to his home in the Palmetto-Rico area of what was formerly Campbell County, but by 1940 was (south) Fulton County. They had an honest-to-gosh working farm just south of Atlanta with animals, crops and the whole shebang. A special treat was to visit Aunt Lena and Uncle Seaborn on a Sunday in the late 1940s and early 1950s (spend the whole day ... eat a scrumptious home-grown, home-cooked dinner) and get to either drive the tractor or ride the mule ... maybe both. For a tom-boyish pre-teen like me, that was heaven. Aunt Lena was a wonderful seamstress and made the entire accessories portion of our guest bedroom --- curtains, bed canopy, coverlet, dust ruffle and all. It was fascinating to watch her work. About 1956 or '57, Uncle Seaborn didn't come home for dinner one evening and one of his sons found him lying in a ditch. His tractor had overturned on him and he had been dead for hours. Aunt Lena moved back to Cleburne County after the children left home and remarried to a Mr. Casey, who was a judge. She died in 1981 and is buried in the Blake Cemetery not far from Ranburne. Finding this notice was a real shocker. A side of Aunt Lena I never knew. Genealogy sure is full of surprises, isn't it? Judy Fowler Kilgore Newnan, GA