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Submitted: 3/9/13 • Approved: 3/13/13 • Last Updated: 3/16/13 • R845256-G845255-S3
Oct 25 1846 - July 30 1922
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, August 3, 1922
BLAKE, Amelia CROWDER - Mrs. Amelia Blake died at 4:45 on Sunday morning at her home at 313 South Fourth Street after an illness of some months. She had been in failing health for the past year. Funeral services were held from the home Tuesday morning at ten o'clock and were conducted by Rev. T.E. McSpadden of the Presbyterian church. Interment was at Bentonville by the side of her husband, J.W. Blake, who died many years ago. All of the children, six daughters and one son, were here for the funeral and most of them had been called home some time previous to her death. Since the death of the father, and of a son many years ago, the death of Mrs. Blake is the first break in one of the finest and most interesting home circles Rogers has ever known. And as the family came to Rogers the year after the city was platted, it has been an important factor in its social life since that time. Miss Amelia Crowder was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina on October 25, 1846 and died July 30, 1922 at the age of 75 years, nine months and five days. At the age of six years she came to Bentonville with her parents and it was in that town when in young womanhood she was married to J.W. Blake, a son of Larkin Blake, a well-known Benton county pioneer. The Blakes were interested in timber and the old Blake Mill, below Silver Springs where the family lived before coming to Rogers in 1882, was a prominent landmark in that section some forty years ago. The children are Mrs. Will Marshall of Lubbock, Texas; Mrs. A.M. Irelan and Mrs. Will Rogers of Los Angeles; Mrs. Lee H. Adamson of Dallas; Mrs. B.W. Quisenberry of Joplin; Miss Theda Blake and Mrs. J. Everett Stroud of Rogers; and Jas. K. Blake of Fort Gibson, Okla. Besides the children there were here for the funeral Mrs. J.K. Blake, B.W. Quisenberry and children, Mrs. Maxine Dickinson of Lubbock, Texas; C.L. Lane and wife of Chelsea, Okla., Mrs. Lane being a sister of Will Rogers. Mrs. Blake is survived by a sister, Mrs. L.L. Blake of Memphis, and a brother, Dr. W.E. Crowder of Crowder, Okla., both of whom were unable to come to the funeral. By the passing of Mrs. Blake, Rogers has lost another of the pioneer women of the city, to whom it owes so very much of the kindly hospitality of those early days when neighbors were always friends and the fireside the only social feature of the town. Her death will be learned with regret by the many friends of the family in all parts of the country.
Contributed on 3/9/13 by wfields55
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