Rev Daniel Blain
BIRTH 1773
Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 13 Mar 1814 (aged 40–41)
USA
BURIAL
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery
Lexington, Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Rev Daniel Blain married Mary "Polly" Hanna, the daughter of Matthew Hanna and Martha Montgomery, on 3rd Jun 1799 in Lexington, Virginia. He was an assistant teacher in the New London Academy, a professor of languages at then Washington College, later Washington & Lee University, the minister to Rockbridge congregations, like Oxford and Timber Ridge.
Rev. Daniel Blain's built his 2 story brick home in about 1800 in Lexington, VA. It was located on E. Washington Street, and later named Davidson Park, on the south side of the street, facing north and west. It was surveyed by James Willson McClung for the W.P.A. Historical project on 29 Dec 1936, #ROC-343. Blain purchased it on 13 Nov 1799 in Rockbridge Co. Deed Book D, p 180. Following his death, it was sold to J D Davidson on 24 Oct 1837 and by Washington & Lee University afterwards. It includes a photo of the home. His widowed wife moved to Lewisburg to live with children.
Rev. Daniel Blain was the minister between 1802 - 1814 at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church, AKA Old Stone Church, per the marble tablet on the back wall of the church sanctuary.
See a lovely article in the 5 Jan 1898 issue of the Lexington Gazette, published every Wednesday by Barclay (Maj Elihu H Barclay editor) and Company, on page 2. It was titled An Old House and a Noble Family. The first 3 columns describe Matthew Hanna and family, including Rev. Daniel Blain and his kin. It was written by "A.R., Central Presbyterian."
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