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Spencer Blair

Birth
Chenango, Broome County, New York, USA
Death
21 Sep 1870 (aged 48)
Tuolumne, Tuolumne County, California, USA
Burial
Tuolumne, Tuolumne County, California, USA Add to Map
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Spencer Blair, aged 50, a farmer residing at Summerville, fell dead. [History of Tuolumne County, 1888]

The Union Democrat - Sep 24, 1870 - Page 3
DROPPED DEAD. -- Mr. Spencer Blair a farmer living near Summerville, on Thursday morning as usual went to milk his cows, after tying up a calf he returned to the house to lay down, saying he felt bad. Before reaching the bed he fell in the doorway of the bedroom. His son was present caught hold of his father who told him to rub his arms. Upon being raised he did not speak or move again, dying immediately. Mr. Blair was in usual health, except for the past two or three weeks he had complained of a pain in the breast. He was a native of New York about fifty years of age.
Spencer Blair, aged 50, a farmer residing at Summerville, fell dead. [History of Tuolumne County, 1888]

The Union Democrat - Sep 24, 1870 - Page 3
DROPPED DEAD. -- Mr. Spencer Blair a farmer living near Summerville, on Thursday morning as usual went to milk his cows, after tying up a calf he returned to the house to lay down, saying he felt bad. Before reaching the bed he fell in the doorway of the bedroom. His son was present caught hold of his father who told him to rub his arms. Upon being raised he did not speak or move again, dying immediately. Mr. Blair was in usual health, except for the past two or three weeks he had complained of a pain in the breast. He was a native of New York about fifty years of age.


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