Sumter-Jefferson-Wilkes County GaArchives Biographies.....Blalock, Laurence Jefferson unknown - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 924-925

   LAURENCE JEFFERSON BLALOCK. Possessing a large measure of veritable talent, a
distinctive intellectuality, and keen mental powers. Laurence Jefferson Blalock,
of Americus, is a distinguished member of the Sumter county bar, and one of the
leading criminal lawyers of Georgia, his success being due to a systematic
application of his abilities to the profession of his choice. A son of Rev.
David Blalock, he was born in Louisville, Jefferson county, Georgia, of pioneer
stock, his paternal grandparents, natives of South Carolina, having been among
the early settlers of Wilkes county, Georgia.

   Rev. David Blalock was born, it is thought, in Wilkes county, and as a young
man embarked in mercantile pursuits in Augusta, Georgia. Uniting with the
Methodist Episcopal church in early manhood, he became a preacher in that
denomination, and having, in 1850, joined the Georgia Methodist Episcopal
conference held pastorates in different localities. In 1867 the state was
divided, and he became a member of the South Georgia Conference, and remained
active in the ministry until his death, which occurred in Americus, in 1881, at
the age of seventy-two years. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Lalledsteded.
She was born in Augusta, of French Huguenot ancestry, and died at the age of
fifty years, leaving four children, namely: Emma; Laura; Laurence J.; and Mary.

   Acquiring his education in the different places in which his father was
settled as a minister, Laurence J. Blalock began earning his living at the age
of eighteen years, and for four years was in the employ of the Houston & Texas
Central Railroad Company, being located in Texas. Returning then to Georgia, he
was engaged in business at Americus as a general merchant for two years. His
tastes and ambitions leading him to choose a professional career, Mr. Blalock
then began the study of law, for which he was well adapted, and in October,
1875, was admitted to the bar. Locating in Americus, he met with encouraging
success from the start, and now holds high rank among the foremost lawyers of
the state, his specialty of criminal law having brought him into prominence in
legal circles, and won for him an enviable reputation for professional skill and
ability.

   Mr. Blalock married in 1875, Mary A, Cobb, who was born in Americus, a
daughter of Joseph A. Cobb, of whom further account is given elsewhere in this
volume. Fraternally Mr. Blalock is a member of Americus Lodge, No. 13, Ancient
Free and Accepted Order of Masons, of which he is past master; a member and past
high priest of Wells Chapter, No. 42, Royal Arch Masons; and a member, and past
noble grand of Sumter Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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