This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blakely Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2426 Message Board Post: The BLAKELY brothers had a reunion at the home of Mr. Charley BLAKELY one day last week near Morton's Gap. There were present six of the brothers of the following ages and weights: J.D. BLAKELY, sixty-four years of age, weight, 194 lbs.; J.J. BLAKELY, sixty-one years of age, weight, 188 lbs.; W.H. BLAKELY, fifty-eight years of age, weight, 200 lbs.; C.T. BLAKELY, fifty years of age, weight 150 lbs., E.F. BLAKELY, forty-seven years of age, weight, 196 lbs.; L.A. BLAKELY, forty-four years of age, weight, 149 lbs. The average weight of the boys is 179 1/2 pounds, and their average ages fifty-four years. They are all well preserved and splendid people. W.H. BLAKELY resides at Bowling Green, J.D. and J.J. BLAKELY at Gracey, in Christian county, L.A. BLAKELY at Russellville, and C.T. and E.F. BLAKELY in Hopkins County. (Source: Madisonville Hustler, Fri., July 10, 1896)