Hi! Bob, Olive Melton was my 3rd great grandmother through Samuel Simpson. I have her descendants & ancestors if interested. She was the dtr of John Melton & Sarah Inlow/Enlow. I have sibs & the Simpson line. I thought the youngest Blair was Leroy. E-mail me privately is you'd like. Lynn maserej@juno.com On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:10:01 EDT RMLM263@aol.com writes: > It has been a long time since I have posted anything but several > names here > are in my family so I will post what I know of them. > > My GGGrandfather William H. BLAIR was married to Levinia SHAW until > her death > on March 21,1850. They has eight children. On November 5,1850 > William > married Olive (nee MELTON), the widow of Samuel SIMPSON. Olive was > born > November 11, 1819, in Jefferson, OH. The marriage resulted in five > children, > the youngest was my > Great-grandfather who was named Calvin Simpson BLAIR. > > William died Oct 07, 1898; Olive died Aug 25, 1890. They are buried > together > in the > Wesley Chapel, United Methodist Church in Jefferson. > > Calvin married Sevena DEAKINS, daughter of William DEAKINS and > Hestor BAKER. > They had six children, five girls and one boy. Daughter Olive died > at age 12 > of Diphtheria in Cleveland. The surviving daughters were Hattie, > Elsie, Mary > Alice, and Ruth, who was my maternal grandmother; the only son was > Frank. > > I do not know the family of Olive MELTON SIMPSON BLAIR before she > married > William. She must have been a fine woman. > > Bob McCann > Manchester, NH > Rmlm263@Aol.com > > > ==== OHKNOX Mailing List ==== > Homepage for this list is http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohknox/ > To search this list go to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter OHKNOX > for the list name. > Lynn Simpson Maserejian maserej@juno.com Researching OHIO Families (many came from PA): ADAIR, DELONG, FEIGHTNER, GALLAGHER, MARSH, MELTON/MILTON, MOSER, OAKES, ROBINSON, SCHAUTD, SHOUTD, SIMPSON, SMITH, STITZLEIN, TAYLOR & THOMPSON GEORGIA families: FREEMAN, HAMMETT, HUNTER, PITTS, SMITH & YOUNG.