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Family: Gideon Blackburn / Grizelle Blackburn (F22893)

• Male Gideon Blackburn

  
  

  Birth	27 Aug 1772	Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
  Death	23 Aug 1838	Carlinville City Cemetery, Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Burial
  Marriage	2 Oct 1793  [1, 2, 3]	Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA  [1, 2, 3]
  Father	Robert Blackburn | F27212 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret Richie | F27212 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Grizelle Blackburn

  
  

  Birth	27 Oct 1774	Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
  Death	25 Jul 1862	Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Burial		Carlinville City Cemetery, Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA
  Father	John B Blackburn | F20890 Group Sheet
  Mother	Janet Mathews | F20890 Group Sheet

  
  

• Histories

  BLACKBURNS IN AMERICA-benjamin Date:6/1/2020 9:30:43 AM

  
  

• Notes

  Married: First cousins. Had 8 children.

  
  

• Sources

  [S207] Dodd, Jordan, Tennessee Marriages to 1825, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.Original data - Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Tennessee.Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individ;). [S649] Wikipedia, Gideon Blackburn article. Gideon Blackburn (August 27, 1772-August 23, 1838) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, educator and missionary to Cherokee and Creek nations, and college president. He raised funds for new colleges and founded numerous congregations and churches in areas of new western settlement in Tennessee and Kentucky... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Blackburn [S940] W.A. Challacombe, The Benjamin Blackburn Family and notes on Blackburns in America, (Name: W.A. Challacombe; Location: Carlinville, ILL; Date: 1942;), pp 35,36, https://archive.org/details/benjaminblackbur00chal. John Blackburn, second son of Benjamin and Mary Blackburn was born Dec 25, 1740, probably in Chester County, Pa. On Feb. 9, 1764 he received a land grant from Lord Fairfax on Mulberry Run in Frederick Co., Va. April 2, 1765 he married Jane (Janet) Mathews. Janet was born April 23, 1747, died Sept. 29 1818. She and her husband were buried in the old cemetery at Dandridge, Tenn. Their children were: Alexander - - born Jan. 14, 1776; Killed at Babson's Ferry below Dandridge by the Indians, and is said to have been the first man buried in the Dandridge cemetery. Benjamin - - born march 8, 1767; died at 18 years of age. (1785). Mary - - - - born Nov. 1st 1768; Married James Moyers Nov.3 1789. Andrew - - born Dec. 13, 1770; married, 1st Margaret Samples, 2nd Catherine McGirk. William - - - - born Oct. 7, 1772; married Amy Samples; 2nd__. Grizelle - - - born Oct 27, 1774; Married her 1st cousin, Gideon Blackburn. George - - - born May 26, 1776; married Martha Neely. John - - - - - born Mch 24, 1778; Elizabeth https://archive.org/details/benjaminblackbur00chal/page/n81/