Biographical Sketch of Franklin C. Blackwell, Dent County, Missouri
			& Hardy Blackwell, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Franklin C. and Hardy Blackwell, proprietors of livery and feed stable
at Salem, MO., were born in 1856 and 1864, respectively, being sons of
James H. and Nancy M. (Barnes) Blackwell, grandsons of William & Mary
(Halbert) Blackwell, who were natives of Virginia, coming to Missouri
at a very early date, and settling in Crawford County.  William died
in 1856, at the age of sixty-three, and his wife is yet living, and 
is now in her eighty-ninth year, her birth occuring in 1801.  James H.
Blackwell was born in 1822, and died in 1866 in Dent County, eight
miles north of Salem, where his widow now lives on the old homestead
of 393 acres.  She was born in Tennessee, later moving to Alabama, and
came to Dent County, MO., with her parents, Thomas and Elizabeth 
Barnes, who located four miles north of the county seat. Mrs. Blackwell
is the mother of nine children:  Sarah, wife of Harvey McDonald;
Eliza J., wife of James L. Chambers; Frances, wife of Thomas Frank;
James T.; Rachel, wife of Samuel Roney; Franklin C.; John P.; Nancy,
wife of George Plank, and Hardy.  Franklin C. was reared on his fathers
farm, and in 1884 was elected constable of Spring Creek Township, and 
was also appointed deputy sheriff of Dent County.  In 1886 he was 
elected sheriff of Dent County, and served the people faithfully for
two years.  In September, 1888, Blackwell Bros. bought the livery and
feed stable from Powell Bros., and are doing a good business.  They
have nine horses, three buggies, three hacks and one wagon.  They are
young men of good business capacity, and gentlemen in every sense of
the word.  They keep a first-class stable.  In October, 1877, Franklin
C. was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Ann Norris, who was born in 
Dent County, MO., in 1860.  They have one child, Emmet H.  In 1886
Hardy Blackwell married Miss Jane Peck, a native of Dent County, MO.,
born in 1866, and the daughter of Thomas Peck.  They have one child,
Arley Fulton.  In politics the Blackwell brothers are Democrats, and
Franklin C. and wife are members of the Christian Church.

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