This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blasdel Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1836 Message Board Post: Source: The Lawrenceburg Press, Aug. 4, 1870 ed. 'Death of Enoch Blasdel.' "A telegraph dispatch was received here from England, Monday, by Peter Brann, Esp., from George Blasdel, announcing the death there of his brother Enoch, and stating that he would be buried there. This is the first cable dispatch ever received here." NOTE: I am not related, and have no further information. Kathleen Esposito