James Young Blair^{[1, 2]}

1834 - 1913  (79 years)

• Name	James Young Blair
  Born	22 Oct 1834	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Dec 1913	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Buried	Blair Cemetery Swansonville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia   [3]
  Person ID	I6713	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Rev. William Blair
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Captain James Blair,   b. 27 Mar 1775, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia ,   d. 29 May 1840, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Ann S. Coleman,   b. Est 1786, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 12 Sep 1854, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F4106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Permelia Coleman Soyars,   b. 1834, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 21 Jan 1870, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 36 years)
  Married	21 Dec 1854	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Children	1. Mary Ann Blair,   b. 1 Oct 1856, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. James Addison Blair,   b. 23 Jan 1860, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 26 Jan 1937, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 77 years)   3. Lucy P. Blair,   b. 20 Mar 1861, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Charles E. Blair,   b. 20 Nov 1862, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Robert Young Blair,   b. 12 Dec 1865, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 18 Jun 1939, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 73 years)   6. Thomas Pickney Blair,   b. 4 Aug 1866, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 22 Jun 1923, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 56 years)
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2018
  Family ID	F6289	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Lattitia/Laticia W. Thomas,   b. 1836, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 17 Sep 1883, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 47 years)
  Married	1870
  Children	1. Willard Frank Blair,   b. 2 Apr 1876, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 21 Feb 1945, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 68 years)   2. Permelia Gray Blair,   b. 1880, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 9 Sep 1943, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 63 years)
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2017
  Family ID	F6291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Janirah Willis,   b. 18 Jan 1852, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 19 May 1914  (Age 62 years)
  Married	22 Feb 1884
  Children	1. Fitzhugh Lee Blair,   b. 13 Jan 1886, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 3 Mar 1939, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 53 years)
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2017
  Family ID	F6292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  James Young Blair P6713JamesYoungBlair.jpg

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Listing of Blair Cemetery, Callands, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia BlairGraveyard-2.jpg
  		Robert Young Blair-Obit The Danville Bee Jun 17, 1939
  		Permelia Blair McKinney-Obit The Danville Bee Sep 9, 1943
  		Willard Frank Blair-Obit The Danville Bee Feb 22, 1945
  		Death Certificate-James Young Blair blairjy.jpg

  
  

  Headstones		Headstone James Young Blair hs6713JamesYoungBlair.jpg
  		James Young Blair Headstone hs6713-2JamesYoungBlair.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S84] Rootsweb, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=caswellcounty&id=I43246. Ann S. Coleman married (1) William A. Price on 20 Mar 1826. William's will was proven in Pittsylvania Co., VA, 16 Apr 1827. It was written 13 Mar 1827 and named a "child yet unborn". That child, born 1827, was named William A. Price. Ann married (2) widower James Blair on 23 Oct 1832. James Blair's 1st wife Polly Dickinson died 24 Mar 1831 (in the Family Bible). That family Bible in the possession of Martha Blair Hylton in Danville, VA, records that James Blair married (1) Polly Dickinson on 01 Apr 1796. She was the daughter of Francis Dickinson. The Bible also records a date of birth for Drury Blair as 20 Mar 1801, the marriage of Drury and Chloe Coleman on 08 Nov 1827, and that Drury died 02 Sep 1864. Note that Chloe Coleman is the sister of Ann Coleman. So James Blair married the older, widowed sister of his son's wife. Drury reported Chloe's death of typhoid on 12 Sep 1854 (Death Register of Pittsylvania Co., VA, p. 15, line 168). Per the Bible, James Blair had 4 children by his first wife Polly, and 1 by Ann Coleman. His child with Ann Coleman was son James Young Blair. The Bible gives the last names of 3 wives for James Young Blair, a Soyars, a Thomas, and a Willis. James Blair Marriage 1 Ann S. Coleman b: 1788?Married: 23 OCT 1832 Children1. James Young Blair Marriage 2 Polly Dickinson [S37] Death Certificate. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=blair&GSfn=james&GSmn=y&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=149150961&df=all&. James Young Blair Birth 22 Oct 1834, Swansonville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Death 10 Dec 1913 (aged 79), Swansonville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Burial Blair Cemetery Swansonville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ather: Capt. James Blair 1775-1840 Mother: Ann S. Coleman 1782-1854 buried: outside fence Blair/Scarce cemetery Cross Stitch Road north of Mt. Cross Road near Whitmell 1st wife: Permelia Gray Soyars 1834-1870 married: 1854 8 children: Mary A. Blair 1856 Sceneptha W. Blair 1858 James W. Blair 1859 James Addison Blair 1860 Charles E. Blair 1862 Robert Young Blair 1864-1939 Thomas Pickney Blair 1866 Albert S. Blair 1868 2nd wife: Lalatia W. Thomas 1836-1884 married: 1870 2 children: Willard Frank Blair 1876-1945 Permelia Gray Blair 1880 3rd wife: Janirah Willis 1852-1914 married: Feb. 22, 1884 one child: Fitzhue [Fitzhugh] Lee Blair 1886-1939