1786 - 1834 (47 years)
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Name |
James Blair |
Prefix |
General |
Birth |
26 Sep 1786 |
Lancaster County, South Carolina |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1 Apr 1834 |
Washington, DC [1] |
Person ID |
I4590 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
1 Jul 2015 |
Father |
William Blair, b. 24 Mar 1759, Lancaster County, South Carolina d. 2 Jul 1824, Lancaster County, South Carolina (Age 65 years) |
Mother |
Sarah Douglass, b. 16 Jul 1763, Lancaster District, South Carolina d. 17 Sep 1816, Lancaster District, South Carolina (Age 53 years) |
Family ID |
F1585 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Charlotte Rochelle, b. 1787, North Carolina, USA d. 1852, Wilson's Springs, North Carolina (Age 65 years) |
Marriage |
6 Feb 1820 |
Kershaw District, South Carolina |
Children |
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Family ID |
F1587 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
1 Jul 2015 |
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Notes |
- James Blair was elected General of the Militia in 1818 at the age of twenty-eight. Thereafter, he was called General Blair. General Blair was six feet, six inches tall, weighed about three hundred pounds, and was very hot-tempered. He was elected to the U.S. Congress by Kershaw, Lancaster, Chesterfield, and Sumter Counties in 1821, and resigned in 1822. He was re-elected in 1828. He lived about six miles from what is now Bethune at Red Oak Camp on Lynche's Creek. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol as pain killers for rheumatism. He fought many duels, and once fired at an actor onstage in Washington. He shot himself in a hotel room in Washington in 1852, and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington.
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Sources |
- [S2526] Headstone, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC.
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