General James Blair
1786 - 1834 (47 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. General James Blair was born on 26 Sep 1786 in Lancaster County, South Carolina; died on 1 Apr 1834 in Washington, DC. 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.
James married Charlotte Rochelle on 6 Feb 1820 in Kershaw District, South Carolina. Charlotte was born in 1787 in North Carolina, USA; died in 1852 in Wilson's Springs, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Lovick William Rochelle Blair
was born on 10 Jul 1821 in Red Oak Camp, Kershaw County, South Carolina; died on 4 Jul 1882 in South Carolina, USA.
- 2. Lovick William Rochelle Blair
Generation: 2
2. Lovick William Rochelle Blair (1.James1) was born on 10 Jul 1821 in Red Oak Camp, Kershaw County, South Carolina; died on 4 Jul 1882 in South Carolina, USA. Lovick married Sarah T. Workman on 10 Sep 1859. Sarah was born about 1825 in Camden, South Carolina; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]