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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Samuel Easley Blassingame Note Born: 20 May 1799 at Anderson Co., , , SC Married: 1818 Died: Bef 1811 at Anderson Co., , , SC Other Spouses: Malinda Ann Holder
Sarah Maria Sloan
Father: General John Blassingame Mother: Elizabeth Easley
WIFE
Name: Mary Bowen Born: 1802 at Pickens Co., , , SC Died: 1824 Father: William Robert Bowen Mother: Martha Adelina Hallum
CHILDREN
Name: Nancy Blassingame Born: 1820 at SC, , , Died: 11 Jan 1900 at TX, , , Husband: Thomas Hallum Bowen
Name: Martha Elizabeth Blassingame Born: 18 Oct 1822 at Pickens Co., , , SC Died: 7 Apr 1905 at Pickens Co., , , SC Husband: Reese Bowen
NOTES
1). John Westfield M. Blassingame was born in Greenville County, South Carolina, between 1800 and 1810 according to the 1830 census of this county. He was living then with his mother, between 50 and 60 years old, with twenty eight slaves. he is sometimes erroneously referred to as John Westfield A. Blassingame , but newspaper notices and his will refer to him as John Westfield M. Blassingame. He was a planter. He married Sarah Maria Sloan, eldest daughter of Captain David Sloan of Greenville Districton Tuesday last according to a notice in The Pendleton Messenger of 17 January 1827. This date would be 16 January 1827. An oil portrait believed by the writer to be this man is owned by Mrs. Stijepo Bjelovucic of Huntington, New York. She was formerly Harriet Towers, her mother being one of eight children of John B. Cleveland, a direct descendant of General John Blassingame. In a letter dated 30 May 1919 from Mr. Cleveland to Mrs. Martha B. Harrison now owned by Mrs. Mary Paddock of Fort Worth,he refers to the oil portrait as being of either William or Thomas Blassingame, son of General John Blassingame, who married Sarh Sloan emphasis added . The painting is of a handsome young man, appearing in his late twenties or early thirties, in civilian clothes of the period of 1820 1830. He has short dark hair and blue eyes, is quite distinguished looking, and is wearing a lace jabot or ruffled shirt . The portrait is not signed, but possibly could have been done by the artist who painted the portrait of General John Blassingame now owned by Mrs. Mary Paddock. The writer believes that Mr. Cleveland was mistaken in stating that the portrait was that of William or Thomas as William married Eliza Paul Townes and the General had no son named Thomas. In the postscript to his letter, Mr. Cleveland concedes that the portrait may indeed by John, and further describes it as being that of a young man with a ruffled shirt. He died in Marion, Alabama, in 1836 and his will is recorded in Greenville County, South Carolina in Volume 1, 178701840, Section B, page 11. Wynn, page 305 His widow married Major John Bomar on 6 December 1842 according to The Pendleton Messenger .

						

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