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William Harvey Blair

9 Jun 1865 – 11 Aug 1915

Birth	9 Jun 1865
Death	11 Aug 1915
Cemetery	Courtland Cemetery Courtland , Cochise County , Arizona , USA
Added by	Ruth Miller on 09 Feb 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124860825

Bio

William Harvey Blair was born in Brighton Township, near Sacramento, California on 9 June 1865. He was one of eleven children born to Darwin Collins Blair and Ann Elizabeth Wilson Blair. On 1 October 1894 he and Josephine Henriette "Josie" McTigue were married in Gold Hill, Nevada. William was a miner all of his life. The family was living in Courtland, Cochise County, Arizona when Josie died on May 10, 1910, from child birth at the age of 35, leaving William a widower with five young children. William died five years later in Courtland on 11 August 1915 from pneumonia at the age of fifty. Both Josie and William were buried in Courtland. Located at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains, about fifteen miles northeast of Tombstone, Courtland was founded in 1909 due to a copper boom. The boom did not last long though. Within ten years the profits from the mines began to shrink and in 1921 a "mass exodus" occurred. Today, it is a Ghost town. The grave markers for William and Josie Blair can not be located. Children of William Harvey Blair and Josephine McTigue Blair: William Edwin Blair 1899~1984 Mary Alice Blair (Baker) 1902~1951 John Ernest Blair 1904~1937 Ora Blair (adopted by Frazen) 1907~c.1927 Blanche Esther Blair (Schuller) 1907~1989 (From Blair Family History, Granddaughter, Ruth I. Miller)

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Family

Parents

• Darwin Collins Blair 1822–1907
• Ann Elizabeth "Annie" Wilson Blair 1830–1902

Spouse

• Josephine Henriette "Josie" McTigue Blair 1874–1910

Siblings

• Mary Percilla Blair Fairbank 1848–1911
• Frank Delos Blair 1849–1925
• Cornelia Mabel Blair Middleton 1857–1935
• Ida Louise Fern Blair Mitchell 1858–1936
• Benjamin Moore Blair 1860–1937
• Rufus Collins Blair 1867–1956

Children

• William Edwin "Ed" Blair Sr 1899–1984
• John Ernest Blair 1904–1937
• Blanche Esther Blair~Spear Schuller 1907–1989

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