Lydia was born on the Blackburn farm 1/2 mile east of the town named for her father' Marshall Paxton Blackburn, Esq; and his brother, Churchill Jones Blackburn, MD; who are both buried near her in this same cemetery. Her grandfather is buried just west of the town in the old Maple Grove Cemetery (now called Alma). There is a cell tower where the house used to stand as the farm was called Quality Ridge. Lydia grew up in the Blackburn house completing high school in Blackburn. After graduating, she went to work for Mr. Koenig in the bank as a teller. She did not go to college as her other sisters and her brother Marshall had done. The family was not successful at that time and she was needed to help the family. Her father committed suicide when she was 23 and it fell to her to support her mother. Her older brother was blinded in WWI, David was killed in France in WWI, and Margaret had married and left with her husband Paul Hatcher. When her mother was distressed, living in the house on the farm; believing she heard her husbands footsteps in their bedroom upstairs; Lydia acquired a house in town and moved there with her mother. Lydia's younger sister Sallie went to Cottie College for a year and then worked at the bank in Kansas City where she met her future husband Anton Zajic. Lydia met Lloyd Winn when he was the depot manager in Blackburn and he had occasion to go up to the Blackburn house to play tennis on their court. Lydia and Lloyd were married in in 1928 and Margaret was born in 1929. I suspect that Lloyd and Lydia married after Lloyd was assigned to be the full time depot manager at Blackburn. Their house was the second house south of the Depot on Main St. It still stands. After the death of her husband, Lydia moved to Phoenix, AZ for a few years near her older sister, Margaret, who had transferred there after the death of her husband, Paul Hatcher. She remained there until 1980 when her grandson Ronald Schilb, her daughter Margaret Schilb and her son in law, James Schilb, used a moving van and Ron's car to move her to the Schilb home in Pontiac, MI. During this trip the party was marooned all night on the railroad tracks by a flash flood in Pawnee Rock, KS. Ron and his grandmother spent the night in his 78 VW Rabbit and Margaret and Jim spent the night in the moving van. It was quite the adventure. Ron had placed a bucket on the top of the car to collect drinking water and it had 9" of water by morning. The railroad tracks was the highest place around and we literally watched a car being carried down the road in the flood waters before the night came. The alarm at the crossing clanged and flashed red all night long. We worried that a train would come and plow into us. In the morning a local man invited us to his house for breakfast. We all climbed into the moving van and drove through the water to his house where there was dry land. His basement had water up to the bottom of the first step. He gave us a rope and after eating, which we all helped prepare, we pulled Ron's Rabbit to dry ground, returned the rope and after allowing the car to dry, we went on our way without further incident. Lydia lived in the Schilb home until she fell and broke her arm. She was moved to a nursing home since Margaret's health was too poor to care for her. Here she died of pneumonia after breaking a hip and being bed ridden.