Gideon Blackburn: Robin's Roots

1772 - 1838 (65 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Gideon Blackburn was born on 27 Aug 1772 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA (son of Robert Blackburn and Margaret Richie); died on 23 Aug 1838 in Carlinville City Cemetery, Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: Abt 1795, Marysville, Blount County, Tennessee, USA; Founded and led New Providence CHurch.
MIssionary: Betw 1803 and 1809, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Cultural missionary to the Cherokee Nation. Founded schools for Cherokee boys in Bradley Co (1804) and Hamilton Co (1806). But resigned and closed both schools because of accusations of whiskey trading.
Residence: Abt 1810, Franklin County, Tennessee, USA; Itinerant preacher; founded several Presbyterian churches in Tennessee and Alabama
Residence: 1820, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: Abt 1823, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA

Notes:

He is credited with founding Blackburn College, but, though he tried to create a seminary in Macoupin County, Illinois, it didn't open until 2 decades after his death, whereupon it was named Blackburn Seminary (later College) after him.
See articles about him on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Blackburn and The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, at http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=96.
Two more detailed biographies can be found at JSTOR.org:
Gideon Blackburn: A Contemporary's Perspective, by Lester Lamon in the Journal of Presbyterian History, Vol. 62, No. 4( Winter 1894) pp. 3654-367, at http://www.jstor.org/stable/23328651
Gideon Blackburn, the Founder of Blackburn University, Carlinville, Illinois, by Thomas Binaker, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Oct., 1924), pp. 398-410, at https://www.jstor.org/stable/40186876

Birth:
Son of Robert Blackburn & Margaraet S Ritchie. Some family trees list Ritchie or Richie as his middle name.

Died:
GRid=40307311; Tall family monument topped by a sculpture of books and a dangling tablcloth.

Gideon married Grizelle Blackburn on 2 Oct 1793 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA. Grizelle (daughter of John B Blackburn and Janet Mathews) was born on 27 Oct 1774 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA; died on 25 Jul 1862 in Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA; was buried in Carlinville City Cemetery, Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
First cousins. Had 8 children.

Generation: 2

Robert Blackburn was born in 1742 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Benjamin J Blackburn and Mary ??); died on 9 Feb 1709.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: Bef 1765, Frederick County, Virginia, USA; Land grand from Lord Fairfax on the "drains of Opekon Creen"
Residence: 1769, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Residence: Abt 1774, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA
Civil: 22 Feb 1779, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Jury service
Military: Apr 1779, East Tennessee; Capt James Shelby's capaign against the Chickamauga Cherokee
Civil: 25 May 1780, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Grand jury
Residence: 1787, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; land grant "on Richland Creek on the north side of the Nolichuckey River"
Possessions: 1794, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Sold 500 acres at the head of Town Creek

Robert married Margaret Richie about 1765 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA. Margaret died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret Richie died in UNKNOWN.

Children:

1. Gideon Blackburn was born on 27 Aug 1772 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA; died on 23 Aug 1838 in Carlinville City Cemetery, Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA.

Generation: 3

Benjamin J Blackburn was born in 1713 in Ireland; died in 1791 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Possessions: 1 Sep 1753, Frederick County, Virginia, USA; 181 acres near Mulberry Run
Residence: 1759, Frederick County, Virginia, USA
Civil: 23 Oct 1765, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Military: Abt 1776, Virginia, USA; Rank of Sergeant, service unit and date not specified
Residence: 1786, Halifax County, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Died:
His will says that he lived in "The State of Franklin, County of Washington" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Franklin

Benjamin married Mary ?? in 1737 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA. Mary was born in 1721 in North Carolina, USA; died in 1791 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary ?? was born in 1721 in North Carolina, USA; died in 1791 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA.

Children:

Benjamin Blackburn, Jr was born in 1738 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 24 Sep 1834.
John B Blackburn was born on 27 Jan 1741 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 9 Feb 1808 in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Old Revolutionary War Graveyard, Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA.
2. Robert Blackburn was born in 1742 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 9 Feb 1709.
Andrew Blackburn was born in 1744 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
James Blackburn was born in 1746 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Elizabeth Blackburn was born in 1749 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA.
Archibald Blackburn was born in 1751 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1823 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA.
George Blackburn was born in 1753 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA.
William Blackburn was born in 1755 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA.
Ann 'Nancy' Blackburn was born in 1757 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
General Samuel Blackburn was born on 2 Jun 1759 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA; died on 2 Mar 1835 in Bath County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Trinity Episcopal Churchyard, Staunton, Staunton City County, Virginia, USA.


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