Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Blakey, Robert O. July 13 1867 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ROBERT O. BLAKEY, of the firm of Cunningham & Blakey, wholesale and retail
druggists, of Selma, Ala., was born in Marengo county, Ala., July 13, 1867. His
father, Robert O. Blakey, was born in Stanardsville, Va., in 1836, and died at
Old Spring Hill, Ala., in 1867. He descended from an old Virginia family of
English origin, and his mother and the mother of President Grover Cleveland were
sisters. His father was born in Virginia, and his grandfather, the first
representative of the Blakey family in the United States, was born in England.
He settled in Virginia and his descendants have become numerous and well
scattered throughout the several states. The father of Robert O. Blakey was
reared and educated in Virginia. When a young man he went to Missouri, and was
there engaged in the mercantile business when the war came on. At the beginning
he entered the commissary department of the Confederate service in connection
with the First Missouri brigade. He participated in the service during the
entire war, and was at Mobile when the final surrender was made. At Demopolis he
met Miss Melissa A. Sledge, whom he married in 1865. She was born in Marengo
county, Ala., in 1841. The Sledge family is of English origin, but came from
North Carolina to Alabama. After his marriage he removed to Old Spring Hill,
Ala., where he established himself in the mercantile business, remaining there
thus engaged until his death. He left a widow and one child, the subject of this
sketch, who was reared and educated at Old Spring Hill during his earlier
boyhood, but later attended school at St. Louis, Mo., and at Sparta and at
Nashville, Tenn. However, the greater part of his scholastic training was
obtained at Sparta, under a kinsman, Prof. J. L. Cary. His studies covered the
branches usual in a college course, and he mastered them thoroughly. On July 1,
1885, he became bookkeeper for Cawthon & Coleman, wholesale druggists at Selma,
with whom he remained until July 1, 1891, when he entered into partnership with
George A. Cunningham, and under the firm name of Cunningham & Blakey they have
since then conducted a wholesale and retail drug business. In 1891 Robert O.
Blakey was married to Alva Craig, daughter of Judge George H. Craig, of Selma,
where she was born and reared. He and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, at Selma, and Mr. Blakey is a steward of his church. He
is also an Odd Fellow, and an honored and useful member of society.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 845-846
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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