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John Stevens Blasingame

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John Stevens Blasingame

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
1 Nov 1901 (aged 65–66)
Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California, USA
Burial
Chico, Butte County, California, USA Add to Map
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Hall of Faith, west wall
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[biography of daughter Easley Lillian Blasingame Ballew] "She was born at Dawsonville, GA, a daughter of John Stevens Blasingame, who had come to California, via Cape Horn when he was a lad of sixteen. Here he engaged in mining, and here me met and married Rose Sullivan, a native of New York State. She came with her parents to California, via Panama, first settling in Nevada County, where her father was engaged in the butcher business, obtaining his stock in various parts of the Sacramento Valley. Mr. Blasingame returned to Georgia where he lived for twenty years. He had become a mining expert and was employed as superintendent of mines for a number of years, when, on account of failing health, he came to California and located in Gilroy. Later he was mining at Georgetown, but again on account of ill health, he went back to Gilroy, where he died." History of Butte County, CA 1918
by George C. Mansfield, p. 828.

1880 census Dawsonville, Dawson, GA: Jno Blassingame, aged 54, farmer, bp GA, both parents unknown; Rose aged 25, bp GA, father GA, mother unknown; Lottie aged 7; Clara aged 5; Easlie aged 4; Sallie aged 1 -- all born GA; aunt, Eliza Scroggins, aged 60, widow, seamstress, bp GA, both parents GA.

1900 census Gilroy, Santa Clara, CA: This census is illegible. Can clearly make out on the second page Ralph Blassingame & Harris Blassingame, both aged 7, born Dec 1892, bp GA, father GA, mother NY. On the bottom of the prior page you can make out the head of household, wife Rose, and three other children.
[biography of daughter Easley Lillian Blasingame Ballew] "She was born at Dawsonville, GA, a daughter of John Stevens Blasingame, who had come to California, via Cape Horn when he was a lad of sixteen. Here he engaged in mining, and here me met and married Rose Sullivan, a native of New York State. She came with her parents to California, via Panama, first settling in Nevada County, where her father was engaged in the butcher business, obtaining his stock in various parts of the Sacramento Valley. Mr. Blasingame returned to Georgia where he lived for twenty years. He had become a mining expert and was employed as superintendent of mines for a number of years, when, on account of failing health, he came to California and located in Gilroy. Later he was mining at Georgetown, but again on account of ill health, he went back to Gilroy, where he died." History of Butte County, CA 1918
by George C. Mansfield, p. 828.

1880 census Dawsonville, Dawson, GA: Jno Blassingame, aged 54, farmer, bp GA, both parents unknown; Rose aged 25, bp GA, father GA, mother unknown; Lottie aged 7; Clara aged 5; Easlie aged 4; Sallie aged 1 -- all born GA; aunt, Eliza Scroggins, aged 60, widow, seamstress, bp GA, both parents GA.

1900 census Gilroy, Santa Clara, CA: This census is illegible. Can clearly make out on the second page Ralph Blassingame & Harris Blassingame, both aged 7, born Dec 1892, bp GA, father GA, mother NY. On the bottom of the prior page you can make out the head of household, wife Rose, and three other children.

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