Pike County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Blair, John 
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Cemetery:           Beulah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
Name:               John Blair

Date Of Photograph: July 29, 2007
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SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN BLAIR
BORN IN
NEWBERRY DIST. S. C.
MARCH 15, 1800
DIED OCT. 2, 1881


Additional Comments:
On March 15, 1800, John Solomon Blair was born in Newberry District of South 
Carolina. It is not known at this time who his parents were. John moved from 
South Carolina and was first found in Henry Co., AL and later moved to Pike 
Co., AL where over the next several decades he built a large plantation. He 
married Cedena Stephens on February 14, 1828. Their first child William was 
born in 1829. Shortly after his birth, Cedena was attacked and killed by a 
black bear. John next married Kitsy Ann Stephens, the sister of Cedena. Many 
years later, John married another Stephens sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Swanner. Two 
of John's sons died in the Civil War, Leonard Blair on December 3, 1862 and 
Levi Blair on September 27, 1863.  Note other sources has his middle initial 
as J. 

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