Person:Philo Blackman (1)

Notes by Carl B. Palmer

BLACKMAN

[7-45] PHILO BLACKMAN. (Philo, Zechariah, Zechariah, Zechariah, James, Rev. Adam), b. 9 Apr 1812 in New York state. He was a traveling minister in New York and northeaster Pennsylvania, and served for a time, in 1838, as minister in the Orange Methodist Episcopal Church in Luzern County, Pennsylvania. He married at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, 2 Apr 1839, CLARINDA ROGERS, whose father, Almanza Rogers [see ROGERS family] had been instrumental in organizing the Orange church several years earlier. The Federal Census for 1840 shows a Philo Blackman household in Wayne County, Pennsylvania about 30 miles east of Orange) comprised of a male and a female in the 20-30 age range.

About 1844-5 they moved to Richland Co., Ohio, where Almanza Rogers had moved some years earlier. Philo's first Ohio land, which he purchased from Almanza, was 70 acres in Sharon Township, part of the first parcel that Almanza had purchased when he came to Ohio. The 1850 census shows 7 children, with the first two born in Pennsylvania. The 1860 census 2 children added, 1 missing, and the birthplace of No. 3 moved back to Pennsylvania.

On 7 September 1861, Philo enlisted in Company 1, 15th Ohio Voluntary Infantry [OVI]. He was described as: age 50, 5'8", dark complexion, blue eyes, gray hair, born in New York. Early in 1862 he served as nurse in several hospitals in Kentucky and Tennessee, and in July was discharged for disability ("Bronchitis, Asthma and Old Age").

Probate (death) records for Richland County show that Philo died 16 Jul 1878 of dropsy and heart disease. Clarinda died after protracted ill health, and was buried on 17 May 1899 in lot 256 of Oakwood Cemetery at Shelby, Ohio. Estate administration records show that her daughter, Clarinda Turner, stayed at home to care for her, and that she was completely bedridden for her last 6 months. Her death was not formally recorded, so the cause is not known. Philo left no formal will; instead, he entered into a contract with and among Clarinda and his living children regarding support for Clarinda and distribution of the estate. It is filed and recorded with the Richland County land records...

Grave stone for Philo & Clarinda

Cerfied copy of Philo's record of death

Image:Blackman, Philo - Carl B Palmer Notes.pdf

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Blackman, Philo, in Ohio, United States. Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997
   v 1 p 154, 16 Jul 1878.

   Philo Blackman, b. 1812 in New York, farmer, white, married, d. 16 Jul 1878 in Plymouth Township, Richland County, Ohio.

2. ↑ Family # 2038, in Richland, Ohio, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p 289.

   Philo Blackman, 49, b. abt 1811 in New York, residing in Plymouth Township, Richland County, Ohio.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Family # 168, in Richland, Ohio, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Line 21.

   Philo Blackman, 38, b. abt 1912 in New York, head of household & residing in Sharon Township, Richland County, Ohio, h/o Clarinda, 31. Children at home include John W., Mary, George, Sharah, Almanza & the newborn twins, Lucina & Clarinda.

4. ↑ Richland, Ohio, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule.
5. ↑ Ohio, United States. Civil War Soldiers Index.

   Philo Blackman, rank in & rank out: private. Ohio. 15th Regiment. Infantry. Company I.

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 76015429, in Find A Grave.

   DOB & DOD not on stone or unreadible. Listed as "unknown."

7. ↑ Turner, Clarinda, in State of Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics. Ohio Deaths 1908-1953. (Ohio, United States: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.)
   24 Jul 1924.

   Clarinda Turner, d/o Filo Blackman Rogers...

8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Palmer, GalelWatson, in Society of Mayflower Descendants of the state of Ohio : organized 1898. (Ebbert & Richardson Co., printers, 1913)
   24 Mar 1987.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} Blackman, Philo, in Palmer, Carl B. - Notes
   p 5.

   ...Philo left no formal will; instead, he entered into a contract with and among Clarinda and his living children regarding support for Clarinda and distribution of the estate. It is filed and recorded with the Richland Co. land records.

10. ↑ Carrothers, George, in A Centennial biographical history of Hancock County, Ohio: embellished with portraits of many well known people of Hancock County, who have been or are prominent in its history and development. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Photocopied by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988)
    pp 13 - 15, 1903.

    On March 9 of that year he was married in Richland county, Ohio, to Lucina M., daughter of Rev. Philo and Clarinda (Rogers) Blackman, by whom he has had five children: Clara E. ; Minnie M., wife of George B. Landis; Lulu D., wife of R. B. Myers; Georgia M., and James G. The family of Mrs. Carrothers is of ancient origin and many of its members have made creditable records both in civic and military life. Rev. Adam Blackman, the founder of the family in America, was born in England in 1598 and came to this country as far back as 1639. He settled in Stratford, Connecticut, where he organized the first Congregational church, of which he was pastor for twenty-five years, and died there in 1665. John Blackman, one of his descendants, became the fa ther of Ebenezer Blackman, the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Carrothers. Her great-grandfather was Enoch Blackman, who served at different times in the Revolutionary army, his last enlistment being August 1, 1780, and his dis charge December 9, in the same year. Rev. Philo Blackman, father of Mrs. Carrothers, served as a private in the Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1877. The mother of Mrs. Carrothers was born at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, and died at Columbus Grove, Ohio, when eighty- one years of age.

11.   Blackman, Philo, in Blackman, Philo - ROD, certified
    No 4, 16 Jul 1878.

    Philo Blackman, born in New York, a married farmer last residing in Plymouth, Ohio, died of dropsy heart, 16 Jul 1878, Richland County, Ohio, Plymouth Township, age 66y 4m.

12. ↑ Bangs, Nathan. A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1762-1840. (Mason & Lang, 1839).

    Philo Blackman rec'd 1836.

13. ↑ ^13.0 13.1 p 24, 678, in Chaffee, A. F. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (New York: Eaton & Mains).