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Sarah Anne Wood m. Dec 23, 1834 Franklin Co. NC b. Jun 18, 1815 Norfolk VA d. Apr 29, 1883 Wilson NC | George Washington Lafayette b. Oct 7, 1837 near Nashville NC d. Nov 28, 1895 Wilson NC |
Benjamin James b. Feb 4, 1840 d. Dec 20, 1863 |
Angelina b. Aug 12, 1841 d. Nov 20, 1841 |
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William Henry b. Aug 4, 1843 d. Aug 27, 1914 Raleigh NC |
Mary Jane "Mollie" b. May 25, 1845 Nash Co. NC d. Jun 6, 1932 Wilson NC |
Thomas Spencer b. Nov 25, 1847 d. Aug 29, 1848 |
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John Wood b. Nov 6, 1849 Nash Co. NC d. Aug 2, 1925 Wilson NC |
Sarah Caroline b. Oct 16, 1851 Nash Co. NC d. Dec 23, 1913 Wilson NC |
Virginia "Jennie" b. Sep 22, 1853 Nash Co. NC d. May 6, 1926 Decatur, DeKalb Co. GA |
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Joseph Roane b. Nov 25, 1855 |
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Benjamin H. Blount appears in a list of Postmasters in Nash Co. NC, appointed
Jun 11, 1833, and serving until Apr 1837. |
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Benjamin was Clerk and Master of Equity, then later, Commissioner of Wilson County, NC. |
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1872 Map of Wilson shows the location of Ben Blount's property on Barnes
Street between Spring and Goldsboro streets. |
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Son William Henry Blount was editor and columnist for the Wilson Advance
and the Wilson Mirror. |
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Son William married Mary Delia Harris. When she died in Apr 1886, she left a will
dated Mar 1886 recorded in the State of North Carolina. Her mother Sarah J. Harris
died at her home in South Carolina in December 1885, leaving a will recorded in the
state of South Carolina. Mary Blount was her only child, but the next of kin, Sarah
Harris' sister Caroline Walker claimed the inheritance. William Blount instituted
a suit against the other heir that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in
Blount v. Walker heard on April 7, 1890. |
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Tombstones of Benjamin and his
wife Sarah Anne, both buried in
Maplewood Cemetery in Wilson NC. |
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In 1926, Daughter Jennie died in Decatur GA. She married John Louis Weaver
(1843-1905) in 1871. According to her
death certificate,
her mother Sarah was born in Massachusetts but she was born after Sarah's father,
Jonathan Wood, had moved to Norfolk VA and
started his family there [Find-a-grave, website]. |
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Tombstone of daughter
Jennie and her husband, in Maplewood Cemetery in Wilson NC. |
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Sources: BB&T, Our Account; A History of BB&T, 12 ed., 2012, pp. 25-29. Legal Information Institute, Blount v. Walker, Apr 7, 1890, website. List of Postmasters 1832-1971, Nash Co. NC, Records of the PO Dept., National Archives, Wash. DC, ancestry.com, website. Eaton, L. Claud, Jr., Our Tree, Alston... Blount...Davis...Pitchford...& related families, publ., by author, Vallejo, CA, 199?, p. 177. William S. Wood, comp., Descendants of the Brothers Jeremiah & John Wood, Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, Mass., 1885; pp.191-193. Tombstone, Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson NC. |
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