Blair Cemetery

Carroll County Virginia

Sulphur Springs District

Location:  Cliffview Community
Directions:  Located in a pasture field on the east side of Rt. 721 (Cliffview Road) at Rt. 837 (Sylvia Drive).
GPS Coordinates:  N 36.69313 W 080.92393
Surveyed by:  Buford C. Wilson & Hope B. Taylor 28 Jul 2000; Updated 02 Sep 2009 Buford_Wilson@Hotmail.Com
Comments:  The cemetery is very old and has fallen into neglect. This hardly seems fitting for the final resting place of one of the most prominent families of their time. Thomas Blair was of Scottish descent. In the Revolutionary War, as a Tory Captain, he was wounded and left for dead on a battlefield in North Carolina, but he survived and settled in this area in the 1780's.Thomas Blair was a very prosperous and influential man. For several years his son, John Blair, and his son in law, Greenberry George McKenzie, served in the Virginia State Legislature. Family tradition has it that Thomas and his wife Mary are buried here, but their markers have been lost. Several graves in the cemetery are marked with fieldstones. At one time, fieldstone markers surrounded the cemetery. Slaves were buried there. Information in [brackets] is not on the stone.


 Name Birth Death Comment
01 BLAIR, John 05 Jul 1772 12 Jul 1852 s/o Thomas Blair & Mary Ann Jones
02 BLAIR, Charity 07 Nov 1776 19 Jul 1860 d/o William Bourne & Rosa Jones; w/o John Blair
03 BLAIR, Polly 10 Aug 1794 Illegible d/o John Blair & Charity Bourne
04 HOWARD, Lucindy 15 Feb 1818 03 May 1886 Lucinda; d/o John Blair & Charity Bourne: w/o Thomas J. Howard
05 HOWARD, Thomas J. 28 Dec 1818 18 Feb 1897 s/o Thomas & Rachel Howard
06 HOWARD, William James 12 Jan 1856 02 Nov 1862 s/o Thomas J. Howard & Lucinda Blair
07 BLAIR, Lorenza D. 04 Jan 1807 01 Mar 1862 Lorenza Dowe; s/o John Blair & Charity Bourne: h/o Emeline P. James
08 CARTER, Emeline P. 03 Aug 1822 03 Nov 1913 d/o William James & Elizabeth Booker; w/o 1st Lorenza Dowe Blair, 2nd William Givens, 3rd John T. Carter
09 BLAIR, Rosa 16 Dec 1856 06 Sep 1862 Rosamond S.; d/o Lorenza Dowe Blair & Emeline P. James
10 KINZER, Lizzie M. 11 Feb 1847 28 May 1871 Elizabeth M.; d/o Lorenza Dowe Blair & Emeline P. James; w/o Phillip Preston Kinzer; Name is Phillip Preston Kinzer on his stone, Phillip Paul Kinzer on his Death Certificate. He is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Woodlawn, VA with his second wife, Lizzie's sister Emma C. Blair
11 KINZER, Willie L. 28 May 1871 Aug 1872 s/o Phillip Preston Kinzer & Elizabeth M. Blair
12 KINZER, Michael N.
[19 Sep 1886] 4 years old; s/o Phillip Preston Kinzer & Elizabeth M. Blair
13 JAMES, Ella S. 1863 Aug 1864
14 BLAIR, A. S. 18 Oct 1815 15 Jan 1904 Algernon Sidney; s/o John Blair & Charity Bourne
15 BLAIR, M. M. 23 Jun 1829 23 Jun 1920 Mildred Malvina; d/o William James & Elizabeth Booker; w/o Algernon Sidney Blair
16 BLAIR, Rosa 18 Oct 1851 03 Jun 1854 Rosa E.; d/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James
17 BLAIR, Emma W. 08 Jul 1853 06 Oct 1854 d/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James
18 BLAIR, Ella F. 17 Jul 1855 29 Sep 1862 Sarabella Francis; d/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James
19 BLAIR, Willie P. 28 Feb 1859 29 Sep 1862 s/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James
20 HOUSEMAN, Fannie I. 04 Dec 1872 18 Oct 1880 d/o William M. Houseman & Frances L. Blair
21 HOUSEMAN, Alonzo B. 13 Nov 1876 07 Mar 1887 s/o William M. Houseman & Frances L. Blair
22 [BLAIR, Thomas] [1789] [20 Sep 1876] Unmarked; s/o John Blair & Charity Bourne
23 [ROBERTS, Catherine Blair Leonard] [26 Feb 1832] [05 Jun 1914] Unmarked; d/o Thomas Blair & Sallie Patton; w/o: 1st James Leonard 2nd Jonathan Roberts