This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RobertLJackson29 Surnames: ASDELL, BLACKMORE, BYNUM, EASTON, FULLER, HOYT, STONE, TODD, WHITAKER Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene/9793/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, July 30, 1953,Volume LXXVII , Number , Page 1, Column 2, "Blackmore Rites Held Monday-Long Illness Fatal To Taylor Township Man." [Transcribed on July 23, 2007 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.] Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock at the family residence in Taylor Township for George Dawson BLACKMORE, 87 year-old prominent resident of that township. Rev. Verl Underwood, pastor of the first Christian Church here, officiated, and burial was in Grandview Cemetery, with Jenkins & Sons Funeral Directors in charge. Mr. BLACKMORE passed away at 1:45 o'clock Friday afternoon at his home following a lingering illness. Born in Taylor Township on January 30, 1866, he had spent his entire life there where he was a retired farmer. His wife, Hattie May (BYNUM) BLACKMORE, preceded him in death on April 12, 1945. Mr. BLACKMORE was a member of the First Christian Church. Survivors include seven daughters, Mrs. Mina L. OCKERMAN, of Bloomfield; Mrs. Nellie L. WHITAKER, of Scotland; Mrs. Carrie B. TODD, of Bloomfield Route 2; Mrs. Mary Ann FULLER, of Worthington; Mrs. Lois M. HOYT and Mrs. Ruth J. ASDELL, or Seattle, Washington; and Mrs. Elizabeth Maxine EASTON, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; five sons, Emerson D. BLACKMORE and George V. BLACKMORE, of Bloomfield Route 2; Charles Lee BLACKMORE, of Switz City; Gilbert B. BLACKMORE, of Atherton, California, and James D. BLACKMORE, of Washington, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth J. STONE, of Bloomfield Route 2. - Link to the Obituary of his mother, Margaret Elizabeth (GEDDES) BLACKMORE [1840OH-1923IN]: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene/3656/mb.ashx - Link to the Obituary of his father-in-law, Daniel Miles BYNUM [1846IN-1925IN]: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene/2677/mb.ashx Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.