Elizabeth Wealthy Blair (bef. 1860 - abt. 1924)

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Elizabeth Wealthy was born to Benjamin Blair and Olive Frisbee in May of 1840 in Brookfield, Massachusetts ^{[1] [2]}. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Vermont.

She first married a man with the last name of Oaks.

She then married her cousin, Eugene Everdue Blair, on May 5th, 1868 in Brattleboro, Vermont ^[3]. According to the 1900 Federal Census, Elizabeth had given birth to four children with only two surviving to the new millennium ^[4]:

• Susan E. - born 1869 ^[5]
• Jennie S.- born 1871 ^[6]
• Eugene Hiram- born 1873 ^{[7] [8]}

The family lived in Wendell for many years but moved to Athol where Eugene would pass away in 1916 ^{[9] [10] [11]}. Elizabeth would eventually move to Montague where she lived out the rest of her life ^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFK7-J57 : 14 April 2020), Benjamin Blair in entry for Eugene Blair and Elizabeth W Oaks, 1868.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2J2-1LG : accessed 17 August 2020), Lizzie W Blair in household of Eugene Blair, Wendell, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 521, sheet 2A, family 27, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 589; FHL microfilm 1,374,602.
3. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFK7-J54 : 14 April 2020), Eugene Blair and Elizabeth W Oaks, 1868.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9RF-8R1 : accessed 17 August 2020), Elizabeth W Blair in household of Eugene Blair, Wendell Town, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 500, sheet , family 61, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,649.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQFQ-C5G : 14 January 2020), Elizabeth Blair in entry for Susan E. Blair, 1869.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHGP-GLC : 24 January 2020), Lizzie Blair in entry for John K. Burkhardt, 1890.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH12-V4K : 24 January 2020), Eugene Blair in entry for Eugene Blair, 1900.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHYC-JVJ : 24 January 2020), Eugene Blair in entry for Eugene Blair, 1900.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD3Q-HBS : 19 March 2020), Elizabeth Blair in entry for Eugene Blair, 1870.
10. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Athol, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1906. Page 19.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6J-WFJ : 8 September 2017), Elizabeth Blair in household of Eugene Blair, Wendell, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 263, sheet 261B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,533.
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXBM-F1V : accessed 17 August 2020), Elizabeth W Blair, Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 121, sheet 21B, line 51, family 263, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 698; FHL microfilm 1,820,698.