Brief Life History of Isaac Franklin
When Isaac Franklin Blair Sr was born in 1826, in Monroe, Georgia, United States, his father, William Blair Jr, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Ann McPherson, was 26. He married Mary Ann Williams on 4 August 1852, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Leon, Florida, United States in 1870 and Sumter, Florida, United States for about 5 years. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 28 October 1894, in Oxford, Sumter, Florida, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Oxford, Sumter, Florida, United States.
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- Isaac Blair in household of Etheldred E Briggs, "United States Census, 1850"
- Isaac F Blair, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Isaac F Blair Enlistment in Union Army
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832 · Worcester v. Georgia
In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
1845
Florida is 27th state.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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