Radford Frank Blackard was the first child born to Elizabeth and Jeremiah Blackard in either Caswell or Person County North Carolina on July 20, 1814. He first moved to Maury County, Tennessee when he was about two years old. His father witnessed the will of Money Ganaway in Maury County, Tennessee on March 24, 1815. Radford's sister Elizabeth Blackard was born January 31, 1816 in North Carolina therefore the family must have moved back to North Carolina prior to that date, perhaps because the mother was ill, as she died March 7, 1816 in North Carolina. On November 28, 1817, Jeremiah, his new wife, Jane Hargis Blackard, and probably his sister Frances wen back to Maury County, Tennessee, as on November 28, 1817, Jeremiah is listed as one of the overseers of men repairing a public road in that county.
Radford lived in Franklin County, Tennessee from sometime before 1819 through sometime after 1836. In July 1836, he married Sarah (Sally) Cliff Berry. He and his wife must have left Franklin County, Tennessee in a wagon train with his father and family. He was located in the 1840 and 1850 census in Hardeman, County, Tennessee. He left Hardeman County, Tennessee between 1851 and 1854. He lived in Marshall County, Mississippi from that time until he died in April 1864.
-from the records of Beverly Blackard Dalton, St. Louis Co., MoMoved to TN and MS between 1857 and 1854. - Records of Beverly Blackard Dalton
According to Henry Beavers, Radford Frank operated farm and grain grinder in VA but this is uncertain.
(source:Wanda Blackard Letters)Hardeman Co Tn Deed Book I p.314
Hardeman Co Tn Deed Book J p.412
Hardeman Co Tn Deed Book K p.224
James Monroe Blackard, Born: ca. 1842 (see 1860 census, Marshall County, MS). Son of: Radford Frank Blackard and Sarah (Sally) Cliff Berry. They came to Hardeman County before 1840, as they are in both 1840 and 1850 census of that county, from Franklin County, TN. They left Hardeman County between 1851 and 1854, and lived the rest of their lives in Marshall County, MS. James Monroe enlisted in the 18th Miss. Inf. and was killed at Antietam, 17 Sept. 1862, without ever marrying. -Charles M. Blackard
181. Elizabeth Blackard
Moved to Mississippi 1837. - Lizzie Holeman
501. Benjamin F. Webb
Raised by Jeremiah Blackard.
Lived in Holly Springs, moved near Memphis Tenn Rt 3 Box 55. - Lizzie HolemanFAMILY-LETTERS: Colbert, Marshall Co Miss.
Feb'y 28th 1894
Mr Thomas W. BlackardDear Sir, no Doubt you will be surprised to receive a letter from me, but
having heard from you through James S. Lucas, who taught school in this
neighborhood and was afterwards in your country. I would like to hear from
you and the other kinsfolk in the old country. There are none of grandpa
Jeremiah Blackard's children living now except Aunt Martha, who lives with
me. She was never married and her health has been bad for many years.
Uncle William who raised me was never maried either, he died 28th of January
1883 age 62 years. Wiley F. Blackard (Washington Blackard's son) lives in
Jackson Tennessee. I am the youngest son of James B.[?] Webb, who married
Elizabeth Blackard grandpa's oldest daughter. My father and mother died
when I was less than a year old. There were eight children of us. Grandpa
and Uncle William raised us. There are five of us living yet. One in Texas
and four in Miss. Two brothers died in Texas. I have been to Texas three
times on visits but have never lived there. I live 1 1/2 mile from the place
grandpa settled in 1846. Lived on the old place until a year ago when I
bought the place I live on now. This country is not as good as it was
before the war. It being sandy and somewhat broken, has washed badly in
many places, however a man, by industy and economy can still make a living
here. .........This being principally a cotton county the credit system has prevailed since
the war, and farmers who buy on a credit are generally hard run financially.
I am a farmer, but fortunately have not had to buy on a credit for several
years, have a very good home, enough to live on and am out of debt.
Although we have never had an correspondence I would be very glad to get a
letter from you I have been married 14 years. We have been very
unfortunate with our children. Have four dead and only three living. Please
answer soon and give us all the news in regard to your family and country,
and I shall take pleasure in anserring any questions you may ask about his
country of the Blackards who lived here.Yours truly,
B.F. Webb
(I am 38 yers. old last November)Marshall Co
Colbert Mississippi April 4th 1894It is with pleasure that I acknowledge the receipt of your interesting
letter in answer to mine which I wrote you sometime ago. I have concluded to
write to you agian and exchange a few more items about the family.We are all about as well as usual. Aunt Martha whose health is never
good has not been as well as usual lately. The health of this country is
generally very good at present. We are getting along rather slowly farming
on account of rain and cold weather. We had 2 or 3 white frosts and ground
frozen about M'ch 21st to 30th. Killed peaches and cherries, and everything
in the garden except onions, English peas and Irish potatoes. We generally
plant corn here from 15th of M'ch to 10th of April and cotton from middle of
April to middle of May.Well, about the family record. Your father's two sisters were named Nancy
and Frankey. Nancey married William Clayton and died in Lawrence Co., Tenn.
many years ago. Frankey married Zacharay Allen in Tennessee, they moved to
Gallatin Co Illinois and died there, I think, during or just after the war.
Washington Blackard married a Miss Oliver and died in Haywood Co. Tenn. in
1835. As I said in my other letter, he has one son living in Jackson Tenn.
named Wiley F. Jeremiah Blackard (my grandfather) married Elizabeth
Farquhar in Person Co. N.C. in 1812 I think. They moved to Maury Co. Tenn.
a year or two later. They had two children, Radford & Elizabeth born July
20, 1814 & January 31, 1815. She (his wife) died M'ch 7, 1816.Radford married Sallie Cliff in 1836 (they had 11 or 12 children some of
them live in this country now) and died in this country in 1864. Elizabeth
was my mother. She married James D. Webb in 1836 and died 1856. They had 9
children. I was the youngest. Five are living yet, four in this country,
one in Fa_____ Co. Texas. After grandmother died, grandfather went back to
Person Co. N.C. the same year and married Jane Hargiss and came back to
Tennessee. They moved from Tenn. to Tippah Co. Miss. in 1837 and to
Marshall Co. about 8 miles west in 1846 that was in this neighborhood. His
second wife died in 1864. They had five children. Melinda married Robt.
Hudspeth and died in 1876. Martha living with me now. Nancy married Wm
Hudspeth and died 1869. William, never married, lived with his father and
mother, and took the Webb children when our father & mother died in 1856,
and died 1888. Frances married Augustus Jones and died 1863. Grandfather
married the third time in 1874, when he was 81 yrs. old, a widow McCoy, and
died in 1878 as I said in my first letter.I have a letter (I will send it in this one) here written by your father
to my grandfather in 1829, when you was the baby: at the end of the letter
your father writes his own name and his wife's & gives a list of their
children and yours is the last. I als have a letter writeen to grandfather
in 1861 by Elizabeth (Hargis) Glenn. It was written by S.W. Glenn who I
suppose was her daughter. Her post office was Van Hook's store, Person Co
N.C. She spoke of a number of the kinsfolk, among others, Jesse Hargis &
children who were not doing much good, were drinking too much whiskey - also
William and Polly Day and their children who were getting along very well.
She also spoke of you and your brother Lawrence. Her language in regard to
you and your brother is: "They are both intelligent, sober and well disposed
boys, both memberes of the M. E. Church." She also said Lawrence had
married Stephen Phillips' daughter and you was not married. She spoke of
her only son Thomas Glenn & family.I would be very glad if you would give me all the news about the
Farquhars, Hargis' and other kinsfolk who live near you or elsewhere that
you know of. Hoping to hear from you again soon. I remain.Yours truly,
B.F. Webb
187. Toliver Goldstone Blackard
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1850 BLACKARD TOLIVER G. Johnson County AR 155 Spadra Township US Census
1850 BLACKARD TOLIVER G. Johnson County AR 657 Spadra Township Slave Schedule
1860 BLACKARD T. G. Johnson County AR 007 Spadra Twp Slave Schedule
1870 BLACKARD T. G. Johnson County AR 109 Spadra Township US Census*********************************************************************************
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"Between the years of 1846 and 1850, a caravan of immigrants arrived from NC, among whom were W. M. Hamlen and Loften Walton, who located two miles northwest of Clarksville; Bentley Gray, Toliver Blackard and brothers, Lewis Blaylock and Daniel Farmer and sons. Vincent Wallace, Robert and Orren Wallace settled east of Clarksville on Green Briar Creek, so named because of trhe mass of briars growing along the creek." (Taken from a series of articles written by Ex-Senator G.T.Cazort of Lamar in 1905, submitted by Lillian Mickel-Johnson Co.,
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Tolliver G. Blackard served in the 10th Arkansas Militia Infantry and later as Sergeant of Company L,
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This file was compiled from the Bureau of Land Management land records and includes Homestead and Cash Entry Patents before 1908 for what is now Johnson Co, AR.
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1850 BLACKARD TOLIVER G. Johnson County AR 155 Spadra Township Federal Population Schedule
1850 BLACKARD TOLIVER G. Johnson County AR 657 Spadra Township Slave Schedule
1860 BLACKARD T. G. Johnson County AR 007 Spadra Twp Slave Schedule AR 1860 Slave Schedule
1870 BLACKARD T. G. Johnson County AR 109 Spadra Township Federal Population Schedule
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"Between the years of 1846 and 1850, a caravan of immigrants arrived from NC, among whom were W. M. Hamlen and Loften Walton, who located two miles northwest of Clarksville; Bentley Gray, Toliver Blackard and
brothers, Lewis Blaylock and Daniel Farmer and sons. Vincent Wallace, Robert and Orren Wallace settled east of Clarksville on Green Briar Creek, so named because of trhe mass of briars growing along the creek." (Taken from a series of articles written by Ex-Senator G.T.Cazort of Lamar in 1905, submitted by Lillian Mickel-Johnson Co.,
Historical Society Journal, April 1977)
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1850 US Census BLOCKARD WILLIAM M. Johnson County AR, Pittsburg Township pg 117*********************************************************************************
MILITARY RECORDS
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"Between the years of 1846 and 1850, a caravan of immigrants arrived from NC, among whom were W. M. Hamlen and Loften Walton, who located two miles northwest of Clarksville; Bentley Gray, Toliver Blackard and
brothers, Lewis Blaylock and Daniel Farmer and sons. Vincent Wallace, Robert and Orren Wallace settled east of Clarksville on Green Briar Creek, so named because of trhe mass of briars growing along the creek." (Taken from a series of articles written by Ex-Senator G.T.Cazort of Lamar in 1905, submitted by Lillian Mickel-Johnson Co.,
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Below is a transcription of a letter written by William Merritt
Blackard during the Civil War dated August 12, 1864, to his wife and children who resided on a farm near Mt. Olive Church near Clarksville AR. At the time this letter was written, Col. Anderson Gordon's 4th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry was camped on Biobartholemy 15 miles SW of Pine Bluff, AR. Toliver Goldstone Blackard is mentioned in the letter Merritt wrote to his wife Rachel in 1864, so we know that Toliver Goldstone was under the same command as was Merritt. "August 12, 1864. Dear Wife and Children once more I seat myself to write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along. I am in good health and have bin since I left home. I have not taken a dose of medison since I left home, I had a very bad cough and a cold a time or two. It has been so long since I wrote to you that I hardly know how to commens. The last letter I wrote to you I sent by ---(not readable). I reccon you got it. Well since I rote you last I've seen ups and downs, when we left winter quarters we had about six weeks of the hardest scouting that we ever done. I reccon ive went day and knight for the most of the time, reading and schemin, bing with the mamory (word may have been enemy). I woldnt a thought though that I could have stood half of what I have stood but that is not the hard part. At last I have been in two fights and that is the hard part at lest men may say what they please about fighting but when they say they do not feel bad on a battle field you may take it for granted that they was not in their proper place for when a man sees deth staring him in the face he must feel bad. When I go on a battle field the first thing I think about is my pore wife and children, if I am
smashed to pieces what will becum of you and my children. If I had no famly I would not regret death so much, but when I go into battle I give up myself to the Lord and ask him to take care of me and I believe He has done it. I was in one place that it does look like a man could not live for the cannon ball shells grape shot and minnie balls was whistling and cutting the lumber and the dirt all around me and men falliing but for some cause God spared me and many others. I have never been so scared but what I had the presents of mind and knowd exactly what I was doing but nothing cannot express the feeling i've had. It is not like any other feeling that ever come over me. I do not boast on my bravery but I think I have don my duty lest the thoughts of my little boys prompts me to stand to my post and I believe I am fittin for liberty. I never want it throwed up to my boys your father was a coward or your Father deserted the southern army. When Susy and Martha has grown up and goes out I don't want it said there comes Merit Blackards girls but He was a coward. I believe I will not keep the company of those and other things causes me to stay away from you.
192. Thomas Washington (T.W.) Blackard
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1828-1915
On Friday morning at nine o'clock May 7, 1915, the spirit of Thomas Washington Blackard went back to God who gave it. He was born November 28, 1828, making his stay on earth 86 years, 5 months, and 9 days. He served as a valient soldier during the Civil War.*********************************************************************************
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Corp Co A 50 Regt NC Trps
Confederate States Army
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NC in the Civil War - Com A, 50th N.C. Troops -2- Corporal Thomas W. Blackard age 32, farmer in Person Co, NC. Source: "North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster" by Weymouth T Jordan, Jr. 1990 - 14 Volumes*********************************************************************************
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1850 Person County NC Census pg. 420
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Susan Phillips 55 head
Thos. W. Blackard 32
Lawrence Blackard 15*********************************************************************************
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1867 Thomas M.[sic] Blackard from G.H.Loy
Deed U-304 33 acres
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1840-1916
Mrs. Sarah Fine Teer Blackard was born February 2, 1840 and died about 5:00 Tuesday evening May 30, 1916. She was 76 years, 3 months, and 28 days old. November 30, 1865 she was happily married to Thomas Washington Blackard of Person Co. To this union 7 children were born all of whom are living. She has 25 grandchildren living and three dead. At an early age she joined the Mt. Zion Methodist Church and was a faithful member until she died. She had a sweet disposition and was loved and admired by all who knew her. She was buried at Mt. Zion Church where she held her membership. Rev. J. J. Boone conducted burial services. She leaves one sister and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her departure. Oh. dear grandmother, thy voice we hear no more, we hope to meet thee, when parting is no nore.
-Her grand-daughter, Lizzie Moore Holeman.
536. Cleopatra Blackard
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Oct 28, 1866 - March 12, 1966
Cleopatra Blackard Cook died at her home in Mebane, N.C. March 12, 1966 with a heart attack at the age of 99 years, 5 months, 2 days. She was buried at Hawfield's Presbyterian Church, Alamance Co, Mebane.
537. Susanna Anna (Annie) Blackard
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Jan 1, 1870 - Feb 10 1958
Annie Blackard Whitfield died at her home in Bushy Fork Community with a heart attack. She was buried at Long Cemetery near Bushy Fork, Person Co, Roxboro, N.C.
194. Irvin Hence Blackard
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1850 Spadra Township, Johnson County, Arkansas census pg 155
Rebecca Penn 65 (f) b. Virginia
Absolum [Penn] 23 (m) Farmer b. North Carolina
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Moore's Roster (Card index file at NC State Archives)
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