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My Blair Family Tree Album


Found this picture in my father's stuff and on the back of it is written in my Dad's handwriting "Old Home Place showing Buttes looking towards Yampa, CO.". My father was born in Skidmore,Cherokee Co., KS and after the death of his mother, he and my grandfather went to live in Phippsburg,Routt Co., CO. with his grandparents, Harrison & Nancy Jane Hudson-Blair. This picture of the Old Home Place is in Phippsburg,CO. Dad left Phippsburg when he went into the Army and then settled in Hayward,Alameda Co., CA.
Picture taken in 1953

I really never knew many of my family members on the Blair side. Most of the family had long passed by the time I came along. I think of them often and they are always in my thoughts and memories with much love.



One family member that I can remember is my Great-Grandmother, Nancy Jane Hudson Blair. I can remember the days when she would come and stay with us for a few days every so often and how we would set in the back yard and she would play games with me and my sister and brother. I can remember that she loved to sew. She would sew by hand and made many nice things for myself and sister. I only wish that I would have had more time with her before she passed on. It isn't that she died young!! Great-Grandma died at the ripe young age of 99 years.

Please give this page a little time to load. Go get yourself a cup of coffee or... a diet caffeine free coke" so when you come back, you can set down and enjoy the album.

When you start to examine the family tree your're bound to be taking chances... Not so much on what you'll find at the roots... As what's apt to fly out of some branches!


Great Grandparents and Family

Harrison Wesley,(wife) Nancy Jane Hudson Blair, (sons from the back) Loren, (my grandfather) Howard,(daughter) Bertha Whitney, (son)Roy (Bill) Blair
front(my father)Homer Lee Blair, Elizabeth & Nancy Whitney, Roy and Harrison (Bud) Blair
I would like to give thanks to my cousin Iris M. Beattie for sending me this picture.
Picture taken abt 1924 believe in Phippsburg,Routt Co.,CO.
Great Grandpa Harrison b 19 Nov 1853 d 19 Jan 1926


Great Grandmother
Nancy Jane Hudson-Blair
Wife of Harrison Wesley Blair
Grandma on her 98th birthday
27 Jul 1858 - 24 Nov 1957


My Grandfather Howard Leslie & his brother Loren Elmer Blair
Howard 21 Sep 1879 - 4 Dec 1945
Loren 26 Aug 1877 - 1953


Great Aunt Bertha Blair & husband Albert Whitney
Bertha 5 Sep 1886 - 13 Feb 1954
Albert 12 Jan 1873 - 11 Feb 1924
pictures by Iris Marie Raehl-Beattie


Great Aunt Bertha & daughters
Elizabeth, Bertha & Nancy Whitney
picture by Iris Marie Raehl-Beattie


Aunt Bertha Blair-Whitney
picture by Iris Marie Raehl-Beattie


Amanda Frances Walker-Blair
My Grandfather's first wife. I don't have any information on her.
If you know anything about Amanda, please get in touch with me.


Aunt Bonnie Dale Blair
8 Nov 1899 - 11 Nov 1916
My father's half sister.
Bonnie's parents Howard Blair & Amanda Francis Walker-Blair (picture above)


Grandmother
Carrie Ellen Richter-Parson-Blair
24 Sep 1886 - 12 Jan 1919


Aunt Olive (Sal)Parson (father's halfsister)
daughter of Carrie Richter & Ira Parson
Grandmother's first husband
& my father Homer Lee Blair


My Aunt Olive(Sal)Parson-Faling
1 Dec 1905 - 8 Oct 1968
father's half sister


My Step-Uncle George Towns and wife Lela
my father (Homer) and Grandfather Howard Blair
picture taken in 1944


My father Homer Lee Blair
WWII Pvt Army
20 Dec 1911 - 30 Dec 1991



My Uncle Gerald (Jerry) Howard Blair (father's brother)
3 Jul 1916 - 3 Aug 1988
& Aunt Stella Vya Prutt-Blair
28 Feb 1921 - Jun 1985


My father & mother
Homer Lee Blair
Dorothy Dutra-Blair
Picture taken in 1978


Great Grandma Nancy Jane Hudson-Blair
& her Great grandchildren
(back)Esther Jane (me), Dennis James (baby)& Janet Ellen Blair
children of Homer and Dorothy Blair
Picture taken in 1953


My Wedding
Harold Pittman Radcliffe & Esther Jane Blair
31 Dec 1964


Harold & myself (Esther)
Boy have we changed over the years ??


My Son & Daughter-in-law
Duane Anthony Radcliffe & Julie Theresa Ferreira Radcliffe
Taken 21 Apr 1990

We have been blessed with two grandsons

Zachary Duane Radcliffe
27 Sep 1990

Bryce Anthony Radcliffe
24 Apr 1994


Cousin Margaret (Joyce)Burton-Blair-Burton wife of the late Delfeord Ray Blair
& her children
Jerry, Michael (Mike),Wanda & Pamela


Starting from the back row Bryant Blair, Martha Carpenter-Blair (widow of John Lefayett Blair), Edgar Athem Blair, Willie Baldock Blair, Bryant's wife, Gracie Blair, Pearly (Pearl) Hodly-Blair, two sons of Bryant & Willie Blair


These pictures were found among my father's pictures. Written on the back of the pictures were "Mt. Harris coalmines & showing coal cars & bridge & tippel". My grandfather & father both worked in the coalmines of KY and CO. My father started when he was only 13 years old. I don't know if this is one of them that they worked in or not.
Pictures taken in 1953.

I have a few more pictures of the older family members and soon as I find out who they are I will put them up.


Jacks-Shack

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Copyright © 1998 by Esther Blair Radcliffe
Please don't copy anything on my webpages without asking for permission.

22 Dec 1998

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