Hannah (Lane) Blackwell and her husband, Samuel Blackwell, were the parents of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., the first woman awarded a medical degree in the United States.
Death Record
"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQ5-KFX : 2 June 2020), New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,683.
Hannah Blackwell, aged 77, died 22 Aug 1870 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, Note on document: "Far Rockaway" [neighborhood in Queens County], buried Greenwood, certificate 6768
Death Announcement
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930. Ancestry.com. Image. New York Evening Post, issue Thurs 25 Aug 1870.
"Rockaway 22nd Hannah, 78 y wid Samuel Blackwell formerly Cincinnati lately Roseville, N.J."
Death and Burial of Husband
Her husband Samuel, aged 38, died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, of malaria on 7 Aug 1838 and was buried there in the family cemetery of Samuel J. Browne, Hannah's relative.
Sources of Samuel's death and burial info
- Million, Joelle. "Samuel Blackwell: Sugar Refiner and Abolitionist." New York History Review. 14 June 2017 (http://newyorkhistoryreviewarticles.blogspot.com/2017/06/samuel-blackwell-sugar-refiner-and.html)
- Letter of Samuel J Browne to "aged Mother" [Mrs. Farmer, his mother-in-law in England], 25 Aug 1838, John W. Browne Coll.; Blackwell Family Papers, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (BSL), Elizabeth Blackwell's diary, 31 Jul- 8 Aug 1839.
- Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998. Ancestry.com. Index to will. Samuel Blackwell died in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Death Record
"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQ5-KFX : 2 June 2020), New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,683.
Hannah Blackwell, aged 77, died 22 Aug 1870 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, Note on document: "Far Rockaway" [neighborhood in Queens County], buried Greenwood, certificate 6768
Death Announcement
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930. Ancestry.com. Image. New York Evening Post, issue Thurs 25 Aug 1870.
"Rockaway 22nd Hannah, 78 y wid Samuel Blackwell formerly Cincinnati lately Roseville, N.J."
Death and Burial of Husband
Her husband Samuel, aged 38, died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, of malaria on 7 Aug 1838 and was buried there in the family cemetery of Samuel J. Browne, Hannah's relative.
Sources of Samuel's death and burial info
- Million, Joelle. "Samuel Blackwell: Sugar Refiner and Abolitionist." New York History Review. 14 June 2017 (http://newyorkhistoryreviewarticles.blogspot.com/2017/06/samuel-blackwell-sugar-refiner-and.html)
- Letter of Samuel J Browne to "aged Mother" [Mrs. Farmer, his mother-in-law in England], 25 Aug 1838, John W. Browne Coll.; Blackwell Family Papers, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (BSL), Elizabeth Blackwell's diary, 31 Jul- 8 Aug 1839.
- Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998. Ancestry.com. Index to will. Samuel Blackwell died in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Hannah (Lane) Blackwell and her husband, Samuel Blackwell, were the parents of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., the first woman awarded a medical degree in the United States.
Death Record
"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQ5-KFX : 2 June 2020), New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,683.
Hannah Blackwell, aged 77, died 22 Aug 1870 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, Note on document: "Far Rockaway" [neighborhood in Queens County], buried Greenwood, certificate 6768
Death Announcement
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930. Ancestry.com. Image. New York Evening Post, issue Thurs 25 Aug 1870.
"Rockaway 22nd Hannah, 78 y wid Samuel Blackwell formerly Cincinnati lately Roseville, N.J."
Death and Burial of Husband
Her husband Samuel, aged 38, died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, of malaria on 7 Aug 1838 and was buried there in the family cemetery of Samuel J. Browne, Hannah's relative.
Sources of Samuel's death and burial info
- Million, Joelle. "Samuel Blackwell: Sugar Refiner and Abolitionist." New York History Review. 14 June 2017 (http://newyorkhistoryreviewarticles.blogspot.com/2017/06/samuel-blackwell-sugar-refiner-and.html)
- Letter of Samuel J Browne to "aged Mother" [Mrs. Farmer, his mother-in-law in England], 25 Aug 1838, John W. Browne Coll.; Blackwell Family Papers, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (BSL), Elizabeth Blackwell's diary, 31 Jul- 8 Aug 1839.
- Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998. Ancestry.com. Index to will. Samuel Blackwell died in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Death Record
"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQ5-KFX : 2 June 2020), New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,683.
Hannah Blackwell, aged 77, died 22 Aug 1870 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, Note on document: "Far Rockaway" [neighborhood in Queens County], buried Greenwood, certificate 6768
Death Announcement
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930. Ancestry.com. Image. New York Evening Post, issue Thurs 25 Aug 1870.
"Rockaway 22nd Hannah, 78 y wid Samuel Blackwell formerly Cincinnati lately Roseville, N.J."
Death and Burial of Husband
Her husband Samuel, aged 38, died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, of malaria on 7 Aug 1838 and was buried there in the family cemetery of Samuel J. Browne, Hannah's relative.
Sources of Samuel's death and burial info
- Million, Joelle. "Samuel Blackwell: Sugar Refiner and Abolitionist." New York History Review. 14 June 2017 (http://newyorkhistoryreviewarticles.blogspot.com/2017/06/samuel-blackwell-sugar-refiner-and.html)
- Letter of Samuel J Browne to "aged Mother" [Mrs. Farmer, his mother-in-law in England], 25 Aug 1838, John W. Browne Coll.; Blackwell Family Papers, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (BSL), Elizabeth Blackwell's diary, 31 Jul- 8 Aug 1839.
- Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998. Ancestry.com. Index to will. Samuel Blackwell died in Hamilton County, Ohio.
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