When Samuel Blackburn was born on 11 April 1924, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, his father, Moses York Blackburn, was 48 and his mother, Pearl Adeline Spicer, was 24. He lived in Traphill, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Trap Hill Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 2 December 1984, in Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackburn, but especially the one in Lancashire, so named with Old English blæc ‘dark’ + burna ‘stream’. This surname is found mainly in northern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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