Robert
Lee
(Roy)
[uncertain]
Bledsoe
Born in Tennessee, United States
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
Husband of
Cortner Adalade Perry
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Lula Lenore (Bledsoe) Evans and
Mattie (Bledsoe) Evans
Died
at age 21
in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Aug 2009 | Last significant change: 21 Feb 2023
16:37: Melanie (Green) Armstrong edited the Status Indicators for Robert Lee Bledsoe (1880-1901). (Minor corrections. ) [Thank Melanie for this]
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Biography
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]
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]
research notes
- Fact: Burial Bledsoe Cemetery, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
Sources
- ↑ FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124709879&ref=acom)
- ↑ familysearch.org Family Tree, with sources (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MQK8-7M6)
- ↑ "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 .
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 29 March 2021, 22:15), entry for Roy Lee Bledsoe (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MQK8-7M6 ); contributed by various users.
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Krisli Hyland
wife Cortner Adalade (Perry) Brooks (1876 - 1959)
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