Burial: Bethlehem, Cemetery, Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States
Obituary
Pneumonia Victim
Mrs. Eliza Blair, 76 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.J. Mowery, of 477 McPherson Avenue, Sunday night at 11 o'clock. Death was due to pneumonia and heart trouble which she had suffered for two months.
She was born February 29, 1840 in Westminster, Ohio, and was the widow of Edmund Blair, who died 12 years ago. Since the death of her husband, she has made her home with her children. Mrs. W.R. Harris, of Rarden, Ohio, Archibald and Harl Blair of Westminster, Ohio, are other surviving children.
Funeral services will be held at Bethlehem Church, six miles East of Lima at a time not set. Internment will be in Bethlehem Cemetery.[2]
Sources
↑ 1850 United States Federal Census: The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Jackson, Allen, Ohio; Roll: 657; Page: 275a Ancestry Record 8054 #13121755
Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 11 November 2020), memorial page for Eliza Jane Williams Blair (29 Feb 1840–5 Mar 1916), Find A Grave: Memorial #34101729, citing Bethlehem Cemetery, Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA.
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