* Dates on stone & in bio do not match.
* William Blackledge was born in 1829 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died in 1913 at Caney, Kansas. He grew up in Columbiana County and worked as a builder and contractor, removing to Rockville, Indiana, prior to the opening of the Civil war.
In 1861 he enlisted for service in the same, in an infantry regiment, and continued his soldierly duties until the close of the war when he returned to Indiana.
He had survived the many dangers to which he had been exposed but he found business conditions disturbed in his old home and in 1876 removed to Peoria, Illinois.
In 1878 he came to Kansas and located at Oswego, subsequently, as his business demanded, living at different places, going to Salina then back to Oswego, then to Carthage, Missouri and to Kansas City, in 1896 settling permanently at Caney, Kansas.
In politics he was a republican. He belonged to the Masons and was a member of the Rockville Lodge. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and brought their six children up honest and industrious and gave them every advantage their means would allow.
William Blackledge was married to Phebe Johns, who was born in 1832 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died at Caney, Kansas, in 1909.
The following children were born to them: Nettie, who is the wife of G. Torbert, a retired farmer and vice president of a bank at Altamont, Kansas; Seward, who owns a farm near Chetopa, Kansas, for the past five years has been building mills in Old Mexico; Elmer E., who travels over the country as his trade of millwright demands; Mary E., who is the wife of J. F. Johnson, a schoolteacher at Altamont, Kansas; Sallie F., who is the wife of A. L. Utterback, who terminated two terms as postmaster of Caney in 1916, is an employe as metal weigher for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company; and James F.
(Transcribed from volume 4, pages 1845-1846 of A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; originally transcribed 1998, modified 2003 by Carolyn Ward.)
*Birth & Death Date per Michael Blackledge (#47408643) 12/25/2016
* William Blackledge was born in 1829 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died in 1913 at Caney, Kansas. He grew up in Columbiana County and worked as a builder and contractor, removing to Rockville, Indiana, prior to the opening of the Civil war.
In 1861 he enlisted for service in the same, in an infantry regiment, and continued his soldierly duties until the close of the war when he returned to Indiana.
He had survived the many dangers to which he had been exposed but he found business conditions disturbed in his old home and in 1876 removed to Peoria, Illinois.
In 1878 he came to Kansas and located at Oswego, subsequently, as his business demanded, living at different places, going to Salina then back to Oswego, then to Carthage, Missouri and to Kansas City, in 1896 settling permanently at Caney, Kansas.
In politics he was a republican. He belonged to the Masons and was a member of the Rockville Lodge. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and brought their six children up honest and industrious and gave them every advantage their means would allow.
William Blackledge was married to Phebe Johns, who was born in 1832 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died at Caney, Kansas, in 1909.
The following children were born to them: Nettie, who is the wife of G. Torbert, a retired farmer and vice president of a bank at Altamont, Kansas; Seward, who owns a farm near Chetopa, Kansas, for the past five years has been building mills in Old Mexico; Elmer E., who travels over the country as his trade of millwright demands; Mary E., who is the wife of J. F. Johnson, a schoolteacher at Altamont, Kansas; Sallie F., who is the wife of A. L. Utterback, who terminated two terms as postmaster of Caney in 1916, is an employe as metal weigher for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company; and James F.
(Transcribed from volume 4, pages 1845-1846 of A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; originally transcribed 1998, modified 2003 by Carolyn Ward.)
*Birth & Death Date per Michael Blackledge (#47408643) 12/25/2016
* Dates on stone & in bio do not match.
* William Blackledge was born in 1829 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died in 1913 at Caney, Kansas. He grew up in Columbiana County and worked as a builder and contractor, removing to Rockville, Indiana, prior to the opening of the Civil war.
In 1861 he enlisted for service in the same, in an infantry regiment, and continued his soldierly duties until the close of the war when he returned to Indiana.
He had survived the many dangers to which he had been exposed but he found business conditions disturbed in his old home and in 1876 removed to Peoria, Illinois.
In 1878 he came to Kansas and located at Oswego, subsequently, as his business demanded, living at different places, going to Salina then back to Oswego, then to Carthage, Missouri and to Kansas City, in 1896 settling permanently at Caney, Kansas.
In politics he was a republican. He belonged to the Masons and was a member of the Rockville Lodge. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and brought their six children up honest and industrious and gave them every advantage their means would allow.
William Blackledge was married to Phebe Johns, who was born in 1832 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died at Caney, Kansas, in 1909.
The following children were born to them: Nettie, who is the wife of G. Torbert, a retired farmer and vice president of a bank at Altamont, Kansas; Seward, who owns a farm near Chetopa, Kansas, for the past five years has been building mills in Old Mexico; Elmer E., who travels over the country as his trade of millwright demands; Mary E., who is the wife of J. F. Johnson, a schoolteacher at Altamont, Kansas; Sallie F., who is the wife of A. L. Utterback, who terminated two terms as postmaster of Caney in 1916, is an employe as metal weigher for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company; and James F.
(Transcribed from volume 4, pages 1845-1846 of A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; originally transcribed 1998, modified 2003 by Carolyn Ward.)
*Birth & Death Date per Michael Blackledge (#47408643) 12/25/2016
* William Blackledge was born in 1829 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died in 1913 at Caney, Kansas. He grew up in Columbiana County and worked as a builder and contractor, removing to Rockville, Indiana, prior to the opening of the Civil war.
In 1861 he enlisted for service in the same, in an infantry regiment, and continued his soldierly duties until the close of the war when he returned to Indiana.
He had survived the many dangers to which he had been exposed but he found business conditions disturbed in his old home and in 1876 removed to Peoria, Illinois.
In 1878 he came to Kansas and located at Oswego, subsequently, as his business demanded, living at different places, going to Salina then back to Oswego, then to Carthage, Missouri and to Kansas City, in 1896 settling permanently at Caney, Kansas.
In politics he was a republican. He belonged to the Masons and was a member of the Rockville Lodge. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and brought their six children up honest and industrious and gave them every advantage their means would allow.
William Blackledge was married to Phebe Johns, who was born in 1832 in Columbiana County, Ohio, and died at Caney, Kansas, in 1909.
The following children were born to them: Nettie, who is the wife of G. Torbert, a retired farmer and vice president of a bank at Altamont, Kansas; Seward, who owns a farm near Chetopa, Kansas, for the past five years has been building mills in Old Mexico; Elmer E., who travels over the country as his trade of millwright demands; Mary E., who is the wife of J. F. Johnson, a schoolteacher at Altamont, Kansas; Sallie F., who is the wife of A. L. Utterback, who terminated two terms as postmaster of Caney in 1916, is an employe as metal weigher for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company; and James F.
(Transcribed from volume 4, pages 1845-1846 of A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918; originally transcribed 1998, modified 2003 by Carolyn Ward.)
*Birth & Death Date per Michael Blackledge (#47408643) 12/25/2016
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