This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SNE.2ACIB/1137 Message Board Post: The History Of Belmont & Jefferson Counties, Ohio author - J. A. Caldwell pub. in - 1880 page - 523 ANTHONY BLACKBURN is a native of Guernsey county, Ohio ; born in 1830 , and a son of James Blackburn, born in Westmoreland county, Pa, in 1793. The old gentleman moved to this state in 1800, and settled in Wayne township, Jefferson county. The mother of our subject, before marriage, was named Mary Lyle, of Wayne township, and subsequently had a family of two girls and four sons. Anthony Blackburn took his education in Hocking county Ohio, and served his time to shoemaking with Mr. R. H. Halstead of Steubenville. In 1854, he began business on his own account and always remained a master tradesman to the present, his excellent and reliable store being located at 122 South Fourth Street. He was married March 27, 1851 to Margaret M., a daughter of W. Hood, highly respected in Steubenville, but who died here in 1844. They have had a family of three children - James M., born March 6, 1852 ; Charles E., born May 6, 1858 ; and George, born December 27, 1860, but who died March 6, 1851. Mr. Blackburn is among Steubenville's many old stand-by residents - a fair trader, and highly respected citizen. I double checked the dates. This is what is in the book, but I do not know if they are right.