George J. Blair (1959)

BLAIR, CHAFFIN, MOORE, SCOTT, WALKER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 1/20/2007 at 18:36:47

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 26, 1959

GEORGE J. BLAIR Dies at 84 Year

Was Member of Pioneer Blair Family of Kentucky Colony Here

George J. Blair, member of a pioneer Madison county family and a resident of the county nearly all his life, died last Friday, Aug. 21, 1959, at Memorial hospital in Winterset. He was 84 years of age.

Mr. Blair was a son of Alexander and Amanda Scott Blair, chapel community. He was one of 10 children, with only one now surviving. She is Mrs. Lucy Moore of New Virginia.

Mr. Blair was born near Blair pioneer resident of the Blair chapel on Nov. 5, 1874. He spent his life in this county, with the exception of two and half years which, as a young man, he spent traveling in the western states and Canada.

His active life was spent farming, and working as a carpenter, in the St. Charles and Blair Chapel areas of this county. Twenty years ago he retired and moved to Winterset.

On Dec. 17, 1905, he was married to Hattie Chaffin of Maxwell. Her death occurred Jan. 6, 1958.

In addition to his sister, he leaves three children, Robert F. Blair of St. Charles, Mrs. Georganna Walker of Cedonia, Wash., and Rex A. Blair of Grand Junction, Colo. He also leaves eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Funeral services were held Monday from Blair Chapel, conducted by Arthur Eady of Indianola. Burial was made in the Blair chapel cemetery, in a black walnut casket which he had constructed, himself, of lumber milled from the black walnut trees on his home farm.

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