This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blacketter Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1703 Message Board Post: The Pike County Republician Nov. 20,1918 Russell Loyd Blacketter was born near Nebo, September 8, 1905, and departed this life Oct. 27, 1918 at the age of 13 years, 1 month and 19 days. He leaves to mour his death, a mother, father, two brothers, Elmer in France, and Jesse of New Canton, two sisters, Ola and Mrs. Irene McCleery, a brother-in-law Tom McCleery, and also his grandfather Blacketter, besides a host of relatives and friends who mourn his departure with deepest sorrow, as he was loved by all who knew him. At the age of six he started to school at Hackberry where he attended until one year ago, when his family moved to a farm, near New Canton, where his death came from pneumonia, which followed an attack of Spanish Influenza. While death is very sad,yet he joins his two brothers and a sister who died in infancy. Interment was made in the Hollis cemetery at Nebo.