Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Blunt family, 1959 

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"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 54, No. 45, Mon., June 1, 1959, p. 1 

Letters To The Editor 

Historian Wants Information On Old Southampton County Family 

                          7626 South Colfax Avenue 
                          Chicago 49, Illinois 
                          May 26, 1959 

Editor, Tidewater News: 

   Ellen Key Blunt, daughter of Francis Scott Key, on whose biography I am 
working, became the wife of Lt. Simon Fraser Blunt, U.S.N., of Southampton 
County, Virginia, in 1846. 

   He was the son of Dr. Samuel Blunt and Mary McDonald Fraser, of Southampton 
County. 

   Other residents of Southampton County named Blunt and apparently related to 
Dr. Samuel Blunt and Lt. Simon Fraser Blunt, were Dr. Simon Blunt and Benjamin 
Blunt. 

   Dr. Simon Blunt is said to have been the proprietor of the Belmont estate, 
Southampton County.  One author, referring to this estate in 1900, stated that 
it was located on the Atlanta and Danville Railroad, near Pope's Station.  At 
the turn of the last century, the owner of the estate was supposed to have 
been one R.S. Pope. 

   Would you please publish this letter in the Tidewater News, asking your 
readers to send me any information they may have regarding the above-mentioned 
men? 

   Your kind and generous assistance, and that of your readers, will be very 
much appreciated. 

                       Sincerely yours, 
                       Edward A. Egan 


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