Seventh Generation

771. Louisa Jane Peters was born on 11 July 1822. She died on 29 May 1902 at the age of 79 at 8 miles from Morrison's Bluff in Logan Co., AR. She was buried. [Marcus Merged 7.FTW]

1. Louisa Jane was reared by an Aunt after her parents died. The Aunt evidently had some means for she reared Louisa Jane to be a "lady" and sent her to a "Female Academy" as girls' schools were called at the time. They lived somewhere in the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tenn. After her marriage to Mr. Blair, they moved to a large farm he owned near Ringgold, Georgia, eight miles from Rome, Georgia. Their Post Office was Catoosa Springs in Catoosa Co., Ga. They lived there until 1860 when Mr. Blair sold his farm, mill, etc., taking Confederate notes and mortgages for his property and moved his family and slaves to land he had purchased in the area of what later became Logan Co., Arkansas in 1871, near Morrison's Bluff on the Arkansas River. He had houses built ready for them. Then, came the Civil War. Mr. Blair was not a strong man, physically, so the Southern Army put him into the Quartermaster to get food for the Army. He was sent to Texas. Meanwhile, his wife was enduring many hardships; so, he got a furlough and came home to try to get his family to Texas. He found his wife very ill with typhoid fever. During his furlough, some bushwackers found he was home, captured him, and took him to Little Rock, Arkansas, where they turned him over to the Union Army, where he died soon after in Military Prison of typhoid fever. He was buried, probably, in some cemetery in Little Rock, Ark. During the war, the Union Army moved into their home and they lived in the servant's quarters. Mrs. Blair, who had all her life had means, found herself a penniless widow with a large family to feed, but she met every obstacle bravely and endured more hardships than most have to face. All the Confederate notes and mortgages held by her in Georgia were cancelled by the U.S. Government at the end of the Civil War, so she could not collect any of them. Their bright prospect vanished but she did not complain. Her granddaughter, Leila Jestine Blair Woffard, writes, "As I remember her, she was tall, graceful, with large, dark, brown eyes and at 80 yrs. old, her hair was scarcely streaked with gray." She died at the family home 8 miles from Morrison's Bluff, Logan Co., Ark. and is buried in the family burial plot, on her farm. - "Hutcheson Genealogy", Pg.19-20.

Ellison Thomas Blair (private).