Mills County, Iowa

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Ival Melville Blair      

Born in Mills County in 1870, Only child of Andrew Franklin Blair and Nancy Matthews McWilliams.
Thompson Milton Blair & wife, Sarah Elizabeth Linville. c1880 Thompson and Sarah moved to Rawles Township from Gentry, Missouri, in the early 1850's traveling with Richard Coleman Estes and his wife Elizabeth. They, with their children traveled in a set of covered wagons. Thompson farmed for years just east of the Wahbonsie Church, which he and his wife helped found. He is buried (1883) at Pleasant Hill/Estes Cemetery northwest of Tabor, alongside four of his sons and a granddaughter. Sarah, who lived 28 years longer, died in 1911 at Junction City, Kansas, and is buried there near her daughter Rebecca. His father, Andrew Franklin Blair, and his grandfather, Thompson Milton Blair, are both buried at the Estes Cemetery northwest of Tabor in Mills County. Thompson’s wife was Sarah Elizabeth Linville, daughter of Reverend Zachariah Linville and Nancy Cash Linville. Zachariah was the son of Thomas Linville III and Jemimah Campbell.

~ Contributed by John Ival Blair