Blackmon Family History

John Blackmon was one of three brothers who came from Edgefield District of South Carolina and later moved to Alabama and then to Mississippi. The 3 brothers had run away from their stepfather in North Carolina and headed for Mississippi. They were:

• Peter Blackmon b. ABT 1810 d. ABT 1870 (married Jane Skinner)
• John Blackmon b. 12/22/1812 d. 05/25/1880
  outlined below......
• Solomon Blackmon b. ABT 1814 d. Winter of 1862 in Confederate Army

John & Rebecca Blackmon

John was born in South Carolina on 12/22/1812 and married Rebecca Green on 12/22/1840 and had the following Children:

• Levi Green Blackmon b. 10/08/1846
• Sarah Elizabeth Blackmon b. 03/02/1848 d. 09/31/1857
• John Ransom Blackmon b. 03/17/1850
• Lucy and Eliza Jane Blackmon (Twins) b. 06/18/1855
• Nancy Caroline Blackmon b. 06/18/1855 d. 01/09/1910
• Robert Emanud Blackmon b. 10/17/1857
• Phoebe Isabelah Blackmon b. 05/09/1860
• Oliver Newton Blackmon b. 08/31/1865 d. ? married Sarah Elizabeth Nix on 12/07/1881 and had the following children:
  • Oliver Franklin Blackmon b. 09/23/1882
  • Charlie Byrd Blackmon b. 12/28/1887
  • Rachel Vermelle Blackmon b. 10/16/1890
  • Henriette Blackmon b. 11/18/1892 d. 08/18/1895
  • Levie Green Blackmon b. 07/01/1897
• William David Blackmon b. 02/06/1866
• Rebekah Ophelia Blackmon b. 07/19/1867
• Solomon Franklin Blackmon was born in Alabama on March 15, 1843. Solomon Franklin Blackmon was born in Alabama on March 15, 1843. His parents were John and Rebecca Blackman of South Carolina and Alabama Respectively. They moved from Alabama around 1850 to Newton County, Miss. Solomon enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 at nearby Enterprise, Mississippi. (See Solomon's Civil War History.) Soon after the war's end, Solomon married Saphronia Abagail Tubbs on December 14, 1865 and they had the following children:
  • Columbus Elizabeth Blackmon b. 05/11/1868 in Miss. married M. Wilson Warlick d. 09/10/1931 in Sheridan, Ar.
  • Mary Arcilla Blackmon b. 01/30/1870 in Miss. married Dr. A. Jackson Hamilton d. 05/10/1923 in Spiro, OK.
  • George Washington Blackmon b. 07/15/1871 in Miss. married Catherine Jones d. 07/28/1952 in Rison, Ar.
  • Rachael Lude Blackmon b. 01/25/1873 in Miss. married Frank Wofford d. 03/21/1937 in Sheridan, Ar.
  • Rebecca Jane "Jenny" Blackmon b. 05/06/1875 in Miss. married Mr. Stroud d. 1966 in Wendell, ID.
            Frances Stroud Downs
                    Stroud twins
  • Willie Estelle Blackmon b. 02/04/1877 in Miss. d. ?
  • W. Ed Blackmon b. 04/09/1878 in Miss. married Alice Jones d. ?
            
  • John F. Blackmon b. 05/02/1880 in Miss. married Edna Thel Reed d. 10/14/1961 in Pine Bluff, Ar.
  • Rilla E. Blackmon b. 09/01/1882 in Miss. married Harmon Williams d. 1961 in Oklahoma
              Frank Williams
              Grady Williams
                    Grady Williams Jr.
              M.H. Williams
                    Eddie Williams
                    Shirley Williams
              Irby Williams  
  • Saphronia Bell Blackmon b. 10/04/1884 in Arkansas married Oliver Winter Stuckey d. 07/07/1970 in California

    Around the year 1887, Solomon's wife, Saphronia Abagail Blackmon passed away at the age of 36. Solomon moved to Arkansas and met Henryetta E. Camp and they were married on February 28, 1891 in Grant County. Here they had Four children :

  • Sol Blackmon b. ? in Arkansas d. ?
  • Bertha E. Blackmon b. 10/1899 in Arkansas d. ? married Oscar Prumberg
            John Prumberg
            Floyd Prumberg
                    Bertha Prumberg Branum
  • Floyd Blackmon b. ? in Arkansas d. 05/171974 married Alice Nielsen
  • Andrew E. Blackmon b. ? in Arkansas d. ?

    In 1895 they moved to England, Lonoke Co., Arkansas. The only child belonging to Saphronia Abagail at this time was her youngest child, Saphronia Bell. The others were grown up by this time. Solomon moved back to Sheridan sometime after 1900 where Saphronia Bell was married to Winter Stuckey in 1904 in Grant County. Solomon died in June 30, 1910 at the age of 67 and was buried in the New Hope Cemetery near Sheridan, Arkansas. Saphronia was born February 15, 1851 and died June 26, 1888 at the age of 37 and is buried beside Solomon in New Hope Cemetary.

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