Levi Green Blackmon
Levi Green was in Newton County, MS from 1861 to 1878, then Raymond, Leon County, TX from 1878 to 1932, where he died 8/8/1932. He ran a general store in Raymond, TX. He was Baptist and served in the Civil War, 37 MS Inf CSA. He is buried, along with his wife, Cornelia Ellen Sinclair Blackmon (8/26/1844 to 8/11/1920), in Tubb Cemetery, 17 miles S of Oakwood on Farm Rd 542 on the left in East Texas. They had 6 children:
Benjamin Sanford Blackmon 8/26/186? TO 1/6/1906
married Jessie L Justice
James Henry Blackmon 1/10/1868 to 11/13/1926
married (3/27/1894) Mary Elizabeth
Nelson 4/11/1876 to 11/12/1961
Mary Elizabeth Blackmon 11/20/1874 to 8/1/1903
married John P. Jones
Ida Margaret Blackmon 8/10/1878 to 5/23/1954
married Jno. G. Leutwyler
Willie Lee Blackmon 3/14/1880 to 9/14/18888 (only
8 yrs old) also buried in Tubb Cemetery
Etta Blackmon 3/1/1884 to 11/18/1954
married Willie.R. Cash (Johnny Cash
may have been a distant cousin)
This letter from Levi Blackmon to his daughter
Ida Margaret Leutwyler, says Levi's father was
named John and John had 2 brothers:
Peter & Solomon and came from South Carolina
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