Susan married Andrew Franklin Blevins and was the mother of 10 children who survived to adulthood. Two more children evidently died young, but we know about them because Susan indicated on the 1910 census that she was the mother of 12 children.
Of the ten children who grew to adulthood, three were daughters and seven were sons. Several of those sons became ministers - perhaps four, maybe as many as six.
Susan outlived her husband by more than twenty years, and lived in Washington County, Virginia, with her son, Daniel Smith Blevins, in 1900. By 1910, she was living in Marion, Virginia (Smyth County) with her son, Esquire (Squire) Blevins. Both of those sons have been identified as ministers.
This picture was found online; I am not certain who owns the original. Susan is seated with a dark scarf on her head. The identities of the other people are not known. Likely this picture was made while she was living
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| Susan Joines Blevins (click to enlarge) |
Susan (Susannah) Joines Blevins is buried in the Kell Cemetery in Smyth County, Virginia, where several of her children are also buried.
Susan Joines Blevins is my father-in-law's great-great-grandmother.
This photo was shared by Nanalee Caudill Wrenn.
ReplyDeleteSusannah had a son named John Andrew Blevins who married Martha Hall. They had a daughter, Josephine, who married John Harvey Blevins, who had a daughter Nellie Viola Blevins who is my grandmother. Nellie married Harvey John Blevins. My mother is Maeola Blevins Gardner.
ReplyDeleteNellie and Harvey had 15 children, 14 whom lived to adulthood.
DeleteHi, Peggy - nice to hear from you!
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