When Myrtle Blackwell was born on 1 August 1926, in Dekalb, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States, her father, George Quincy Blackwell, was 29 and her mother, Ada Victoria Gardner, was 24. She had at least 1 son with Wilburn Thomas Langley. She lived in De Kalb Township, Kershaw, Camden District, South Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 18 October 1950, at the age of 24, and was buried in Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackwell, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, Somerset, Devon, Sussex, and Worcestershire, named in Old English frp blæc ‘black, dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘dark well or stream’, Middle English blak + wel(le).
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