This is the second month of a year-long project to try and collect stories about our family. Each month, I am featuring ancestors who were born in that month. At this point, I am only going back five generations, but if that could change if anyone has anything they wish to share about family members further back. It doesn't have to be a full biography of the people, but whatever information you have to share, can help the rest of us learn more about our ancestors than is found on the typical pedigree chart.
February's featured family member is James Randolph Blackwood, DOB 4 Feb. 1876 (Rhoades family). There were no Carling family ancestors born in February, but there were two in March, so don't go too far, your input will definitely be needed next month.
From the best I can gather, James Randolph Blackwood was born on 4 February, 1876, in Union County, South Carolina. He married Anna Mae "Annie" Vaughn. Sometime after this, his family moved from South Carolina to Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas. It is unclear exactly when this move occurred, however, according to the 1910 U.S. Census, our direct ancestor Ernest Randolph Blackwood was 12 years old and his younger brother Hal was 9 years old when the census was done, and both were born in South Carolina. The next younger child, Lawrence, was 7 years old and was born in Texas. If I did the math right, this would have placed the move sometime between 1901 and 1903.
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Annie died on 21 April, 1908 as the result of a miscarriage and pneumonia. James remarried on 5 July, 1908 to Josepha "Addie" Mason. Addie was 15 years younger than James. It is unclear what happened to her, however, James later married Laura Burkett, who was 13 years his junior.
James was a farmer, and his family lived about 5 miles south of Honey Grove, which is southwest of Paris, Texas. He died of a myocardial insufficiency (heart disease) and edema of the lungs (fluid on the lungs) with a contributing factor being cardiovascular renal disease (kidney disease apparently common with heart disease).
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Anyone with any more information or corrections on what I've found?