Theron Winfield Blackman (1858-1934)

BLACKMAN, ALLEN

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

From Nevada Evening Journal September 8, 1934 (page 1)

T. W. BLACKMAN DIED EARLY TODAY

WELL KNOWN LINCOLN AVE., RESIDENT DEAD; FUNERAL MONDAY

T. W. Blackman, 76, died at Iowa sanitarium at 3:30 a. m. today, following a major surgical operation earlier in the week. It had been known that his condition was critical and the announcement of his death was not unexpected to members of the family and friends.

The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist Episcopal church of which he had been a long time member. Interment will be in the Nevada cemetery by the side of the parents and the younger brother, who died six weeks ago.

In the death of T. W. Blackman, a resident of Nevada for over 60 years, Nevada loses one of its valuable citizens; one who had contributed much to the success of the community.

The younger brother, A. L. Blackman, junior member of the firm of Blackman Brothers, died very suddenly at the home on Lincoln ave., July 21, leaving the elder brother as the sole survivor of the family of Mr. and Mrs. James Blackman, who some to Iowa in October, 1864, settling first in Benton county, where they lived until coming to Nevada in 1872.

Theron W. Blackman, elder son of James W. and Belinda Allen Blackman, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1858 and came with his parents to Benton county, Iowa in 1864. During the eight years that the family lived in Benton county, the younger son Allen Lewis Blackman was born.

After the family came to Nevada where the father engaged in the meat business for a time, the elder son, after attending the public schools, began to center his interests around the market gardening business. This continued, the father and younger brother being associated with him in the business until it became one of the outstanding market gardening plants in central Iowa.

This business was conducted by the Blackman family, with the subject of this sketch as the guiding spirit, for over a third of a century with marked success.

After the death of the parents in the early part of 1907 the brothers maintained their home for many years with a cousin. Mrs. Mary Hodges as housekeeper. During those years and continuing up until the end Clyde Hodges, a grandson of Mrs. Hodges sr., had been in the home.

The Blackman home on Lincoln and Third street in one of the landmarks of the city and familiar figures of the two brothers will be missed by their neighbors and many friends.

They had made a marked success of their business through a happy combination of industry, perseverance and good judgment, added to their integrity and natural thrift an their ever-evident spirit of fairness, honesty and fortitude.

He was a man of highest type of character and held in esteem by all who knew him. Like his deceased brother Lewis, he had been actively identified with the Methodist Episcopal church during his lifetime, as well as with the cause of temperance and good living.