MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - BIOS Urban Mercer Blackmon

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BLACKMON

Irvin Blackmon's real name was Urban Mercer Blackmon. 
Irvin was what people thought his name was because it
sounded that way. He was the son of Nathaniel and
Susan A. Blackmon of SC born in Harris Co., GA in
1847.  His son Urban Mercer, Jr. was my husbands great
grandfather.


Urban Mercer married Missouri Dennis in Harris Co., GA
in 3/17/1865. (on-line in Harris County)

His civil war records and marriage certificate list
him as Urban Mercer.  U. M.'s civil war pension record
list Missouri as applicant. Courthouse records show U.
M.


Blackmon died 8/01 and J. E. Blackmon and William
Myers were administrators.


"History of Harris Co., GA" list his name as Irvin and
Urban.  Urban aka Irvin owned Hale's Ferry located at
Lickskillet.  The property consisted of a cotton gin,
a sawmill, a grist mill, a dam and a bridge.  The
property was purchased from the Hargett family.  


Most of this Blackmon family lived in Whitaker and are
buried at Shady Grove Church Cemetery, along with the
Myers, Hales and Hargetts.


Trying to find the link of Nathan or Nathaniel born
about 1810 in S.C. to the other Blackmon or Blackmans
of Harris / Muscogee Co., GA from around 1830.

======== Patricia Miller patemiller@worldnet.att.net ====
The BLACKMON part of my family seems to have been
caught in the Harris/Muscogee Counties land swaps.
Irvin BLACKMON inhabited Lickskillet, and a later
BLACKMON (Joseph Dewitt Blackmon) farmed for the
Burneys. Joseph Dewitt was born and married Kate KING
in Mountain Hill, Harris County, GA. I guess he
followed opportunities, because he moved to Chambers
Co., AL where he worked another farm of the Burneys.