Muscogee-Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Blandford, Carrie November 2, 1908
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The Marion County Patriot, November 6, 1908
The Marion County Patriot, No. 43
Friday, November 6, 1908
Page One

Miss Carrie Blandford Dies In Columbus

Miss Carrie Blandford, an aged lady in Columbus, died at her home in Columbus 
Monday and her remains were brought to Buena Vista and interred in the cemetery 
at Ramah Tuesday.

Many of the older people in Marion County remember back in the early seventies 
when Miss Carrie lived in Buena Vista and was a general favorite among the 
people.  She was a lady of brilliant intellect, a charming conversationalist 
and endeared every one to her by her womanly graces.  She was a sister of the 
late Judge Mark Blandford, who used to live in Buena Vista and in the early 
days of the sixties raised a regiment and became its colonel.

Colonel Blandford was a fearless soldier and while on the field of carnage 
leading his regiment he lost an arm.  On returning home, he was elected to the 
Confederate Congress and after the war he resumed his law practice in Buena 
Vista and after a few years he moved to Columbus where he was regarded as a 
leader of the bar.  A few years after his removal to Columbus, he was elected 
to the supreme bench, where he left his impress as one of the truly great 
lawyers who occupied that bench.

Judge Blandford and Miss Carrie Blandford had a sister who lived in Marion 
County, Miss Fannie Stevens, a lady of superior mind, who died at her home near 
Buena Vista a few years ago and her remains were interred at Ramah.  Mrs. 
Stevens was the grandmother of Dr. Mark Hollis, Col. Howell Hollis, Mr. Tom 
Hollis, Miss Nannie Clare Hollis and Mrs. Sam Croxton.  The remains were 
accompanied from Columbus by Mr. John Blandford, Miss Lucy Blandford and Col. 
Howell Hollis.



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