Rochella was born on Sunday at 1:15 in the morning at Log Town Farm near Camden, South Carolina. She was the third daughter of Lovick William Rochelle Blair and Sarah T. Workman. Her father was born about five o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, July 10, 1821 in Red Oak Camp, Kershaw County, South Carolina. Her mother was born March 12, 1830 in Camden, Kershaw County.
Lovick Blair and Miss Sallie Workman were married on September 10, 1859 in Camden by the Reverend Dr. Boyd. Colonel Lovick Blair was assassinated on the streets of Camden by James L. Haile a few days short of Lovick's 61st birthday "in the cause of liberty and free government."
After her father died, Rochella took her own life at age 16 with poison under a tree near the family home. "On Tuesday, 22 Aug. 1882,(at age 16) Rochella ended her young and glorious life voluntarily." (Rochelle Family Bible, Allen Rountree)
The Chester Bulletin, Sept 1, 1882, Chester, South Carolina, page three.
The suicide of Miss Rochelle Blair adds another sad page to the dreadful record of the ill-starred Blair family. Her great-grandfather William Blair was hanged; her grandfather James Blair committed suicide; her father, the late Col. L.W.R Blair, was once tried for murder of a woman and escaped only to be shot to death in a personal argument with Capt. Haile a short time since; one of Col. Blair's natural sons, Neil Blair is now in the Penitentiary serving a life time for the murder of two men and now the suicide of the 17 year old daughter, one of the most interesting and beloved of the present generation.
Truly, it is a sad record. The Camden papers say Miss Blair was a bright young lady of rare gifts of heart and mind, and her distressing death has elicited for the family the sympathies of the entire community. It is said she has been inconsolable ever since the killing of her father, and it is thought that a broken heart drove her to the unnatural act she has committed.
She died at Dixie's Retreat, SC.
Lovick Blair and Miss Sallie Workman were married on September 10, 1859 in Camden by the Reverend Dr. Boyd. Colonel Lovick Blair was assassinated on the streets of Camden by James L. Haile a few days short of Lovick's 61st birthday "in the cause of liberty and free government."
After her father died, Rochella took her own life at age 16 with poison under a tree near the family home. "On Tuesday, 22 Aug. 1882,(at age 16) Rochella ended her young and glorious life voluntarily." (Rochelle Family Bible, Allen Rountree)
The Chester Bulletin, Sept 1, 1882, Chester, South Carolina, page three.
The suicide of Miss Rochelle Blair adds another sad page to the dreadful record of the ill-starred Blair family. Her great-grandfather William Blair was hanged; her grandfather James Blair committed suicide; her father, the late Col. L.W.R Blair, was once tried for murder of a woman and escaped only to be shot to death in a personal argument with Capt. Haile a short time since; one of Col. Blair's natural sons, Neil Blair is now in the Penitentiary serving a life time for the murder of two men and now the suicide of the 17 year old daughter, one of the most interesting and beloved of the present generation.
Truly, it is a sad record. The Camden papers say Miss Blair was a bright young lady of rare gifts of heart and mind, and her distressing death has elicited for the family the sympathies of the entire community. It is said she has been inconsolable ever since the killing of her father, and it is thought that a broken heart drove her to the unnatural act she has committed.
She died at Dixie's Retreat, SC.
Rochella was born on Sunday at 1:15 in the morning at Log Town Farm near Camden, South Carolina. She was the third daughter of Lovick William Rochelle Blair and Sarah T. Workman. Her father was born about five o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, July 10, 1821 in Red Oak Camp, Kershaw County, South Carolina. Her mother was born March 12, 1830 in Camden, Kershaw County.
Lovick Blair and Miss Sallie Workman were married on September 10, 1859 in Camden by the Reverend Dr. Boyd. Colonel Lovick Blair was assassinated on the streets of Camden by James L. Haile a few days short of Lovick's 61st birthday "in the cause of liberty and free government."
After her father died, Rochella took her own life at age 16 with poison under a tree near the family home. "On Tuesday, 22 Aug. 1882,(at age 16) Rochella ended her young and glorious life voluntarily." (Rochelle Family Bible, Allen Rountree)
The Chester Bulletin, Sept 1, 1882, Chester, South Carolina, page three.
The suicide of Miss Rochelle Blair adds another sad page to the dreadful record of the ill-starred Blair family. Her great-grandfather William Blair was hanged; her grandfather James Blair committed suicide; her father, the late Col. L.W.R Blair, was once tried for murder of a woman and escaped only to be shot to death in a personal argument with Capt. Haile a short time since; one of Col. Blair's natural sons, Neil Blair is now in the Penitentiary serving a life time for the murder of two men and now the suicide of the 17 year old daughter, one of the most interesting and beloved of the present generation.
Truly, it is a sad record. The Camden papers say Miss Blair was a bright young lady of rare gifts of heart and mind, and her distressing death has elicited for the family the sympathies of the entire community. It is said she has been inconsolable ever since the killing of her father, and it is thought that a broken heart drove her to the unnatural act she has committed.
She died at Dixie's Retreat, SC.
Lovick Blair and Miss Sallie Workman were married on September 10, 1859 in Camden by the Reverend Dr. Boyd. Colonel Lovick Blair was assassinated on the streets of Camden by James L. Haile a few days short of Lovick's 61st birthday "in the cause of liberty and free government."
After her father died, Rochella took her own life at age 16 with poison under a tree near the family home. "On Tuesday, 22 Aug. 1882,(at age 16) Rochella ended her young and glorious life voluntarily." (Rochelle Family Bible, Allen Rountree)
The Chester Bulletin, Sept 1, 1882, Chester, South Carolina, page three.
The suicide of Miss Rochelle Blair adds another sad page to the dreadful record of the ill-starred Blair family. Her great-grandfather William Blair was hanged; her grandfather James Blair committed suicide; her father, the late Col. L.W.R Blair, was once tried for murder of a woman and escaped only to be shot to death in a personal argument with Capt. Haile a short time since; one of Col. Blair's natural sons, Neil Blair is now in the Penitentiary serving a life time for the murder of two men and now the suicide of the 17 year old daughter, one of the most interesting and beloved of the present generation.
Truly, it is a sad record. The Camden papers say Miss Blair was a bright young lady of rare gifts of heart and mind, and her distressing death has elicited for the family the sympathies of the entire community. It is said she has been inconsolable ever since the killing of her father, and it is thought that a broken heart drove her to the unnatural act she has committed.
She died at Dixie's Retreat, SC.
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