Arkansas Cemeteries
Parkview Cemetery
Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois
Former Fulton County, Arkansas Resident
Ancestor Information & Obituary Submitted by Cindy
Blackburn Hardy
My great grandfather was
from Fulton County, but relocated after the death of his wife and died in
Peoria, Illinois.
Here is his info and his
obituary:
Benjamin Albert Blackburn
b. September 20, 1887 in Mammoth Spring, Fulton County, Arkansas
d. May 19, 1975 in East Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois
Peoria
Journal Star
Peoria,
Illinois
May 20,
1975
Page
B-5
Benjamin Blackburn
Services for Benjamin A.
Blackburn, 87, of 204 Connecticut, who died at 5:10 A.M. yesterday in Proctor
Hospital, Peoria, where he was admitted April 14, will be at 2:30 P.M. tomorrow
at Wilton Mortuary, Peoria.
The Rev. Alfred
Diestelkamp and the Rev. James Judkins will officiate, and burial will be in
Parkview Cemetery, Peoria.
Visitation will be from
6 to 9 tonight at the mortuary.
He was born at Mammoth
Spring, Ark., Sept. 20, 1887, a son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Blackburn. He married Irie Mahan in Fulton County,
Ark., in 1907. She died in Arkansas in
1942.
Mr. Blackburn formerly
worked at Hart-Carter Co. as a utility man for four years. He was a member of
the Church of Christ. A Peoria resident
since 1944, he had lived in Washington for six months.
Surviving are two
daughters, Mrs. Eva Clark of Washington and Mrs. Ruby Moreland of Germantown
Hills; two sons, Robert of Yale, Mich., and Virgil of Chicago; one sister, Mrs.
Minnie Rogers of Paragould, Ark.; 26 grandchildren; 75 great-grandchildren and
one great-great-grandchild.
Three sons, two brothers
and two sisters preceded him in death.
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