Pioneer Families of Young County, Texas

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The Blakey Family

Taken from a family history of the Blakey ranch in Monument, New Mexico and come from the “Then and Now”, Lea County Families, volume I, dated 1979, submitted by Charline Dye.

The bitter scars of the war between the states left its mark on many families, and the William C. Blakey family was one of them. William and his wife Mary Greenlee Blakey, were owners of a farm and Mercantile in Missouri until the Yankees burned three of their houses and took the merchandise from the store. William served with the South, and after the war, in 1875, being completely wiped out, moved his family from Missouri to Graham, Texas. There William and Mary reared their family of seven children: W.C. Jr., Albert, Walter, Bell, Clara, Lee and Charles Brannon.
{Submitted by Erny Long}