Posted on: Blackburn Family Obituaries Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/BlackburnObits?read=19 Surname: Blackburn ------------------------- >From Fort Wayne News Seninel Monday, April 6, 1931: JAMES H. BLACKBURN, aged 76, 231 East DeWald Street, died at 1:20 o'clock today at his home after an illness since last October of uraemic poisoning. He was a retired Pennsylvania Railroad passenger brakeman having retired eight years ago. He was a member of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church. Surviving are the wife, Grace, and a daughter, Miss Helen Blackburn, of this city. Mr. Blackburn was the last of a family of 14 children.