Person:Samuel Blackfan (1)

BIOGRAPHY: According to a book, date unk., "Western Twp. Voters & Taxpayers", he is a Farmer, living on 60 acres in Sec 27, is Methodist. He was an original member of the LaGrange Lyceum, organized on 17 Dec 1846 in Western Twp., Henry Co., Il. Listed as Samuel Blackfan in 1850 Fed. census for Henry Co., IL, enumerated on 12 Nov 1850, age 6, b. IL. Listed as Samuel Blackfan in 1870 Fed. Census for Orion, Western Twp., Henry Co., IL, enumerated on 15 Aug 1870, age 27, Farmer, with wife & his mother Elizabeth K. (Trego) Blackfan. Listed as Samuel Blackfan in 1880 Fed. Census for Orion, Henry Co., IL, Dist. 122, enumerated on 5 Jun 1880, age 37, b. IL, farmer, married w/wife and 2 children on Monroe St. Listed as Samuel Blackfan in 1900 Fed. Census for the Nebraska Sanitarium, College View, Lancaster Co., NE, Dist. 38, enumerated on 4 Jun 1900, age 56, b. Jul 1843, IL, widowed, patient at the sanitarium, mission worker. Listed as Samuel Blackfan in 1910 Fed. Census for the Nebraska Sanitarium, College View, Lancaster Co., NE, Dist. 43, enumerated in May 1910, age 66, b. IL, widowed, gardner at sanitarium. As can best established, this was a Seventh-Day Adventists facility, founded in 1895 at Union College. He lived in later life in The Nebraska Sanitarium, College View [Lincoln], NE]. He is listed in Lura Parsons wedding invitation list as an Uncle [of E.B. Jordan] in 1911 and have a ltr. he wrote E.B.J. in 1912 as his Nephew. Samuel mentions a Rae Perkins, son of his wife's sister, as a Civil Engr. He apparently moved to Lincoln, NE after she passed away.

DEATH: College View.