Like so many other families of their
era, the Blakelys of Delaware County, NY, gave
their children the same names over and over
again, to the frustration of future genealogists.
And because the Blakelys were prolific, there are
many Samuel Blakelys in Delaware County records.
But here is a young man who could very likely be
the one pictured: Samuel M. Blakely, born
(according to a list of gravestones in the Blakely Cemetery in the township of
Kortright) in 1843. Such a birthday would have
made this Samuel 18 at the time of Hannah
Richs wedding in 1861, though there is no
way of knowing over how many years she collected
and organized the photos in her album.
Baptismal
Records of the Gilchrist Memorial Presbyterian
Church
in the township of Kortright also show that a
Samuel McAuley Blakely was born August 6, 1843 to
James G. Blakely and Susan McAuley. The family
was enumerated in the 1850 census listing Samuel as age 7,
residing in Kortight. In 1860 the family was living next
door to James' brother John D. and sister=in-law
Sarah (Peters) and Samuel was 17 and listed as
attending school. At the time the census was
taken in 1870, the family of James G. was living
next door to his brother Goldsborough B. and his
wife, Elizabeth (Mitchell), but Samuel was no
longer living with his parents nor was he located
living in the town of Kortright.
According
to the headstone in Blakely Cemetery, Samuel M. Blakely died on
17 Jan 1892. His wife, Lottie B. (last name
unknown) was also buried in this cemetery and
information indicates she was born on 03 Aug 1849
and died on 20 Dec 1887.
About
the photographer, C. Gullman, of
PoKeepsie, New York: you will find a carte de-visite by
C. Gullman in the Penn State University Special
Collections Libraries, and a collection of Civil War photographs relating to the 27th
Indiana includes at least one photograph (Capt.
Josiah C. Williams) by C. Gullman of
Poughkeepsie.
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