Meriwether-Jones-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dr. John L. Blackburn July 11 1856 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 May 7, 2004, 10:01 am Empire State – Spalding County – Week of July 16, 1856 Died in Meriwether County, on Friday 11th inst. Dr. John L. Blackburn in the 65th year of his age. He was a native of South Carolina, but at an early age removed to Jones County in this State, which he represented for several years in the Legislature. He afterwards removed to Pike County, where his fellow citizens likewise honored him several times with a seat in the Legislature. From Pike he removed to Harris County, thence to Meriwether, where his ashes now slumber. Dr. Blackburn was a man of many virtues, universally esteemed for his integrity of character, and is justly entitled to that honorable distinction, - an honest man, the noblest work of God. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb