Joel Horace Blackmer (1887 - 1952)

Born 29 Jul 1887 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Oct 1952 at age 65 in Santa Clara, California, United States

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Biography

Joel Horace Blackmer was a son (and the only child) of Dr. Rollin Clinton Blackmer and his wife Helen (Tarleton) Blackmer. He was born on 29 July 1887 in St. Louis, Missouri.

He volunteered for military service during World War I. According to his uncle Alven M. Smith, he was sent to Paris, France, where he did "clerical work at headquarters."^[1]

In 1930, the U.S. Census recorded 71-year-old widow Helen Blackmer at 6778 Manchester Avenue in St. Louis, head of a household that also included her unmarried son "Joe" Blackmer, 41, and her sister Dora Graham, 72 and also a widow. Joe worked as a salesman in the "brick-tin" industry, and the women had no occupations. Their home was valued at $5000.^[2] At about that same time, Alven Smith reported that Joel was employed as a salesman for the Hydraulic Brick Co. of St. Louis.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Smith, page 63.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RCJ-WFY?cc=1810731&wc=QZF7-NCK%3A649530101%2C1589299808%2C651540801%2C1589284372 : 8 December 2015), Missouri > St Louis (Independent City) > St Louis (Districts 1-250) > ED 149 > image 1 of 74; citing NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002).

• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3TM-8KQ : 13 March 2018), Joel H Blackmer, 1917-1918; citing St. Louis City no 24, Missouri, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,683,856.
• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP76-71Q : 26 November 2014), Joel H Blackmer, 05 Oct 1952; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• Smith, Rev. Alven Martyn. Three Blackmore Genealogies. Privately published, South Pasadena, California, 1930.