Robert E. Lee Bledsoe, 1880-1901, was the son of Lewis J. and Mary E. Bledsoe. In 1896, he married Cortner Adelaide Perry (1876-1959). They had a daughter, Lula Lenora, 1897-1988. He died, aged 21, in 1901, and is buried at Bledsoe Cemetery, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Among other family buried there is his mother, and his paternal grandparents. [1] He was born in Tennessee, the son of Lewis J. Bledsoe, 1840-1923, and Mary E. Hopper, 1852-1900, who married in 1869 in Lincoln, Tennessee. [2]
Residence
In 1880, the Bledsoe family lived in Grainger, Tennessee. The household included
L. J. Bledsow, 40, born in Tennessee, a foreman
Mary Bledsow Wife. 28 , b. Alabama
W. T. Bledsow Son 14 Tennessee
Lewis Bledsow Son 12 Tennessee
James Bledsow Son 10 Tennessee
Fannie Bledsow Daughter 8 Tennessee
R. E. Lee Bledsow Son 4 months Tennessee
Laura Bradford Other 16 Tennessee, hired on farm
Sinr. Gully Other 18 Tennessee, hired on farm. The four eldest children were in school. [3]
Burial
Fact: Burial Bledsoe Cemetery, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD7W-KPB : 29 December 2021), R. E. Lee Bledsow in household of L. J. Bledsow, District 1, Grainger, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
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