A son of O.W. Sr. & Caroline Blacknall, he had moved to Arizona in December, hoping the climate would benefit his failing health. "Gifted with rare conversational powers, with an unflagging flow of the most rare and genial humor, widely read with a most comprehensive and accurate memory, he charmed and drew to him all who knew him, high or low... As secretary of the Continental Plant Co., at Kittrell, he organized a distinctly new business, worked out himself the multitudious details necessary In the starting of a new business and carried them all through to success. Had he lived a few years longer he would have been a wealthy man. Upright, truthful, honorable, moral, he has left a stainless name. From the day of his birth he showed that precocity of intellect which marks those whose stay in the world cannot be long. But in the twenty-five years of his busy and happy life, he lived more, enjoyed more, made more, gave more happiness to others than the average man could in a dozen lives." - [News and Observer, Fri, 20 Feb 1903, pg 2.]
A son of O.W. Sr. & Caroline Blacknall, he had moved to Arizona in December, hoping the climate would benefit his failing health. "Gifted with rare conversational powers, with an unflagging flow of the most rare and genial humor, widely read with a most comprehensive and accurate memory, he charmed and drew to him all who knew him, high or low... As secretary of the Continental Plant Co., at Kittrell, he organized a distinctly new business, worked out himself the multitudious details necessary In the starting of a new business and carried them all through to success. Had he lived a few years longer he would have been a wealthy man. Upright, truthful, honorable, moral, he has left a stainless name. From the day of his birth he showed that precocity of intellect which marks those whose stay in the world cannot be long. But in the twenty-five years of his busy and happy life, he lived more, enjoyed more, made more, gave more happiness to others than the average man could in a dozen lives." - [News and Observer, Fri, 20 Feb 1903, pg 2.]
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