Samuel David Blackwood

(1836-1894)

At a Glance

Joined the Confederacy in the US Civil War and was a member of Lane's Brigade, Company F, 33 N.C. Regiment. In active service from July 1862 until he surrendered at Appomattox in 1865. After the Civil War, Samuel Blackwood served as an Elder of the New Hope Presbyterian Church in 1871. He lived to be fifty-eight years old.

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Biographical Data

Important Dates

Samuel David Blackwood was born on July 6, 1836. He died on April 26, 1894, and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in New Hope, NC.

Places of Residence

• New Hope, NC.

Occupations

• Farmer [1].

Relatives

• Spouse: Martha Jane Craig  (1838-1912), married from December 12, 1861 to April 26, 1894 [2].
  Children:
  
  • five sons, Robert Phillips Blackwood (1866-1945), John Hampton Blackwood (1868-1916), Malcolm Craig Blackwood (1872-1937), William Alexander Blackwood (1882-1964) and Samuel David Blackwood, [Jr.] (1862-1962).
  • three daughters, Nannie Moore Blackwood (1870-1956), Mary Eleanor Blackwood (1874-1897) and Melissa Dudley Blackwood (1878-1961).
• Sibling: one brother, Herbert Nettleton Blackwood (1876-1957).
• Others: Samuel Craig Blackwood (grandson, 1895-1968) and Samuel Joyner Blackwood (great-grandson, 1933-2013).

References

1. United States Census of 1880.
2. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).