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COPIED FROM: THE NEWS - Wednesday Morning, September 16, 1896

A Former Well Known Lynchburger Dies Near Alexandria.
Mrs. William M. Blackford died on yesterday morning at the residence of her
son, Mr. L. M. Blackford, the principal of the Episcopal High School, near
Alexandria.

Mrs. Blackford was the widow of the late William M. Blackford, who died in
this city in April, 1864, and who at one time was the owner and editor of the
Lynchburg Virginian, but at the time of his death wsa the cashier of the Exchange
Bank of Lynchburg, and the financial agent of the Confederate States for this
district. Mrs. Blackford was the daughter of General John Minor, of Fredericksburg,
Va., and her mother, prior to her marriage, was Lucy Landon Carter,
of Cleve, King Georgce county.

Mr. and Mrs. Blackford came from Fredericksburg to Lynchburg in 1846, and
here she resided until about twenty years ago, ,when she made her home with her
son at the Episcopal High School.

She has been an invalid since her early married life, but such has been the
strength of her character and the energy of her nature that she deeply
impressed her influence for good upon all who came within its range. Her
mother and herself were at one time said to have been the two most beautiful
women in Virginia, and she retained her beauty until the day of her death. It
was not, however, her personal loveliness, but the enthusiasm and poetic
fire of her nature which gave her such social power and such capacity for good.
From her girlhood she was a member of the Episcopal church, the church of her
forefathers, but her benevolence ranged far beyond the lines of any domination
and her sympathetic christianity embraced all who profess and call themselves
christians, and all humanity came within the scope of her love.

Mrs. Blackford left many descendants. Her oldest child, Lucy Landon, was
the first wife of Professor John Staige Davis, of the University of Virginia;
her youngest, Mary is the wife of J. Churchill Cooke, of King William county.
Her sons are Colonel William W. Blackford, now of Princess Anne county;

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