Allen Lewis Blackman (1864-1934)

BLACKMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal July 23, 1934 (page 1)

A. L. BLACKMAN DIED SUDDENLY

FORMER NEVADA BUSINESS MAN FOUND DEAD IN HIS BATHROOM

A. L. "Lou" Blackman, 70, longtime Nevada resident, was found dead in the bath room at his home 302 Lincoln avenue, Saturday afternoon about 3:00.

Mr. Blackman had entered the room to take a bath about 1:00. As was his custom he had locked the door to the room.

When he failed to come out of the room after an hour, the housekeeper, Mrs. Abernathy, notified the brother, T. W. Blackman. Calls failed to bring any response and help was summoned. The door was finally opened and the unfortunate man found dead, his lifeless body hanging over the bathe tub, the face immersed in the water, as he still grasped the wash cloth in his hand.

He had evidently taken his bath and left the tub, holding the wash cloth of clean the tub, and either fell over from a heart attack or from a stroke of apoplexy, to which he was subject.

When found by Dr. Bowers and others who has been summoned he lay over the side of the tub, with his face immersed in the water.

The proper officers were summoned and after looking the situation over carefully, it was decided that death was unquestionably accidental, either from apoplexy or from falling over into the water.

The funeral was held at the Nevada Methodist Episcopal church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with his pastor Rev. George A. Lawton in charge. Interment was in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery, by the sides of the parents who passed away many years ago.

Allen Lewis Blackman, 70, was born in Benton county, Iowa, October 14, 1884, shortly after the family had arrived in Iowa from New York State.

The parents, James W. and Belinda Ann Blackman, with their elder son Theron W. Blackman, had made the trip from their home in the eastern Iowa county until 1872, when they came on west to Nevada.

Here the father engaged in the meat business and other lines for time, but finally the family was centered in the market gardening business on a tract of land they had acquired just west of the city limits.

This business was conducted by the Blackman family for over a third of a century with marked success.

The parents died in the early month of 1907 and the sons had since maintained the family home at 302 Lincoln avenue.

The success of the Blackman brothers in the gardening business was due the happy combination of industry, perseverance and good judgment of the two; their ever evident spirit of fairness and co-operation and their very strict honesty and integrity.

They were long recognized as high authority in market gardening circles of the state and when they retired from the business about six years ago their plant was one of the very modern and successful ones in the state.

The deceased was a man of rare character and was held in the highest of esteem by all who knew him.

Like his surviving brother he had long been actively identified with the Methodist Episcopal church and with the cause of temperance and prudent living.

In the sudden and rather tragic passing of Louis Blackman, Nevada loses and excellent citizen.