Charles C. Blakemore
Charles C. Blakemore, sewing machine agent, Washington, is a son of William H. Blakemore, who was a native of Virginia, but came to Ohio about the year 1824, and bought and settled on a farm in this township, where the village of Culpepper now stands. He married Miss Ann Millikan, daughter of Captain John Millikan, who died at Chillicothe, of cold plague, during the year 1812. They were the parents of ten children, live sons and live daughters, three of whom died in infancy. Frank L. and Wyatt D. both went West at the close of the war, being single at the time, but married and settled in Taylor County, Iowa, and are engaged in farming, occupying positions of honor and respect in their county. Keziah C. is the wife of Colonel II. B. Maynard, whose biography appears in this work. Amanda J., married to C. A. Beery, of Chillicothe; Emma, married to W. E. Bonfoy, of East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati; Anna M., married to Nathan Snyder, wdio is now deceased. She remains a widow, and lives in Xenia. Charles C. Blakemore, our subject, was born in 1839, and is a native of this county. He spent his lirst years with his parents on the farm, but removed with them into Washington at the age of ten, and has been a resident of the town ever since. For more than twenty years Mr. Blakemore has been engaged in the sewing machine business - indeed, he is the pioneer sewing machine agent in the county. He married his first wife, Miss Jenny Cox, daughter of Isaac Cox, of Hamilton County, in 1865, with whom he lived nine years, when she died. Mr. Blakemore remained single three years, when he married Mrs. Phoebe J. Haus, daughter of John Mallow, Esq., of Ross County. They are residing in Washington, on Main Street, in a nice residence of their own, and are without children. Mr. Blakemore has been quite successful in the selection of amiable wives. He is a man of some peculiar traits of character, possessing an inherent love for fine horses, which seems to have been a trait of character possessed to a great degree by his father. Few men in the county are so fond of a good horse as is he, and but few men are capable of handling one so skillfully. He is a straightforward, honest, upright man. In politics, he is a Republican; in religion, a Methodist. His father served the county as coronor and sheriff, and died July 20, 1870. His mother died May 3, 1874, at the house of Colonel II. B. Maynard, in Washington. The Blakemores are regarded as one of the prominent families of the county.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County