William Monroe Blackstone was born March 12, 1836, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1854, he removed with his parents to Iowa and in 1857 was married to Mary Hale. To this union were born eight children, three of whom survive, Fred E., Minnie B., wife of C.H. Burke, and Mabel H., wife of B.H. Brackett, the others dying in childhood.
In 1860, failing health caused him to seek a change of climate and with several companions he made the journey by team across the plains to Leadville, being gone a year. In the summer of 1862, he enlisted in Company E. 33rd Iowa Volunteers and served until the fall of 1865, he with his regiment taking part in the Yazoo River campaign, battles of Helena, Jenkins Ferry, Spanish Fort, Mobile, and others, and at the close of the war being sent to the Mexican border, and the regiment finally disbanded at Rock Island in August 1865.
Returning to his farm life in Mahaska County, Iowa, and afterwards to Lucas County where he lived until 1881 when he moved to Harlan, Iowa, where he resided until 1898 when he moved to Garner where in 1902 the faithful wife with whom he had traveled life's pathway for 45 years was called away. This left him with health impaired, and he started to travel, finally finding at Colorado Springs renewed health and what to him seemed ideal enjoyment for his active spirit. He disposed of his Garner interests and has lived at Colorado Springs for the past six years, returning May 28, 1911, and after enjoying a visit with all of his children was taken sick June 26 and after much suffering died July 5, 1911, at noon.
Father Blackstone was brought up in the Presbyterian Church but did not unite with any church until after his marriage when he became a member of the Christian Church, and on his removal to Harlan united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at that place and afterwards transferred by letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garner of which he was a member at the time of his death.
Source: William Monroe Blackstone obituary, Garner Signal, Wednesday, July 12, 1911
In 1860, failing health caused him to seek a change of climate and with several companions he made the journey by team across the plains to Leadville, being gone a year. In the summer of 1862, he enlisted in Company E. 33rd Iowa Volunteers and served until the fall of 1865, he with his regiment taking part in the Yazoo River campaign, battles of Helena, Jenkins Ferry, Spanish Fort, Mobile, and others, and at the close of the war being sent to the Mexican border, and the regiment finally disbanded at Rock Island in August 1865.
Returning to his farm life in Mahaska County, Iowa, and afterwards to Lucas County where he lived until 1881 when he moved to Harlan, Iowa, where he resided until 1898 when he moved to Garner where in 1902 the faithful wife with whom he had traveled life's pathway for 45 years was called away. This left him with health impaired, and he started to travel, finally finding at Colorado Springs renewed health and what to him seemed ideal enjoyment for his active spirit. He disposed of his Garner interests and has lived at Colorado Springs for the past six years, returning May 28, 1911, and after enjoying a visit with all of his children was taken sick June 26 and after much suffering died July 5, 1911, at noon.
Father Blackstone was brought up in the Presbyterian Church but did not unite with any church until after his marriage when he became a member of the Christian Church, and on his removal to Harlan united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at that place and afterwards transferred by letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garner of which he was a member at the time of his death.
Source: William Monroe Blackstone obituary, Garner Signal, Wednesday, July 12, 1911
William Monroe Blackstone was born March 12, 1836, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1854, he removed with his parents to Iowa and in 1857 was married to Mary Hale. To this union were born eight children, three of whom survive, Fred E., Minnie B., wife of C.H. Burke, and Mabel H., wife of B.H. Brackett, the others dying in childhood.
In 1860, failing health caused him to seek a change of climate and with several companions he made the journey by team across the plains to Leadville, being gone a year. In the summer of 1862, he enlisted in Company E. 33rd Iowa Volunteers and served until the fall of 1865, he with his regiment taking part in the Yazoo River campaign, battles of Helena, Jenkins Ferry, Spanish Fort, Mobile, and others, and at the close of the war being sent to the Mexican border, and the regiment finally disbanded at Rock Island in August 1865.
Returning to his farm life in Mahaska County, Iowa, and afterwards to Lucas County where he lived until 1881 when he moved to Harlan, Iowa, where he resided until 1898 when he moved to Garner where in 1902 the faithful wife with whom he had traveled life's pathway for 45 years was called away. This left him with health impaired, and he started to travel, finally finding at Colorado Springs renewed health and what to him seemed ideal enjoyment for his active spirit. He disposed of his Garner interests and has lived at Colorado Springs for the past six years, returning May 28, 1911, and after enjoying a visit with all of his children was taken sick June 26 and after much suffering died July 5, 1911, at noon.
Father Blackstone was brought up in the Presbyterian Church but did not unite with any church until after his marriage when he became a member of the Christian Church, and on his removal to Harlan united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at that place and afterwards transferred by letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garner of which he was a member at the time of his death.
Source: William Monroe Blackstone obituary, Garner Signal, Wednesday, July 12, 1911
In 1860, failing health caused him to seek a change of climate and with several companions he made the journey by team across the plains to Leadville, being gone a year. In the summer of 1862, he enlisted in Company E. 33rd Iowa Volunteers and served until the fall of 1865, he with his regiment taking part in the Yazoo River campaign, battles of Helena, Jenkins Ferry, Spanish Fort, Mobile, and others, and at the close of the war being sent to the Mexican border, and the regiment finally disbanded at Rock Island in August 1865.
Returning to his farm life in Mahaska County, Iowa, and afterwards to Lucas County where he lived until 1881 when he moved to Harlan, Iowa, where he resided until 1898 when he moved to Garner where in 1902 the faithful wife with whom he had traveled life's pathway for 45 years was called away. This left him with health impaired, and he started to travel, finally finding at Colorado Springs renewed health and what to him seemed ideal enjoyment for his active spirit. He disposed of his Garner interests and has lived at Colorado Springs for the past six years, returning May 28, 1911, and after enjoying a visit with all of his children was taken sick June 26 and after much suffering died July 5, 1911, at noon.
Father Blackstone was brought up in the Presbyterian Church but did not unite with any church until after his marriage when he became a member of the Christian Church, and on his removal to Harlan united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at that place and afterwards transferred by letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garner of which he was a member at the time of his death.
Source: William Monroe Blackstone obituary, Garner Signal, Wednesday, July 12, 1911
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