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@outlook.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 | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAIR, John | 05 Jul 1772 | 12 Jul 1852 | s/o Thomas Blair & Mary Ann Jones |
| BLAIR, Charity | 07 Nov 1776 | 19 Jul 1860 | d/o William Bourne & Rosa Jones; w/o John Blair |
| BLAIR, Polly | 10 Aug 1794 | Illegible | d/o John Blair & Charity Bourne |
| HOWARD, Lucindy | 15 Feb 1818 | 03 May 1886 | Lucinda; d/o John Blair & Charity Bourne: w/o Thomas J. Howard |
| HOWARD, Thomas J. | 28 Dec 1818 | 18 Feb 1897 | s/o Thomas & Rachel Howard |
| HOWARD, William James | 12 Jan 1856 | 02 Nov 1862 | s/o Thomas J. Howard & Lucinda Blair |
| BLAIR, Lorenza D. | 04 Jan 1807 | 01 Mar 1862 | Lorenza Dowe; s/o John Blair & Charity Bourne: h/o Emeline P. James |
| 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 |
| BLAIR, Rosa | 16 Dec 1856 | 06 Sep 1862 | Rosamond S.; d/o Lorenza Dowe Blair & Emeline P. James |
| 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 |
| KINZER, Willie L. | 28 May 1871 | Aug 1872 | s/o Phillip Preston Kinzer & Elizabeth M. Blair |
| KINZER, Michael N. | [19 Sep 1886] | 4 years old; s/o Phillip Preston Kinzer & Elizabeth M. Blair | |
| JAMES, Ella S. | 1863 | Aug 1864 | |
| BLAIR, A. S. | 18 Oct 1815 | 15 Jan 1904 | Algernon Sidney; s/o John Blair & Charity Bourne |
| BLAIR, M. M. | 23 Jun 1829 | 23 Jun 1920 | Mildred Malvina; d/o William James & Elizabeth Booker; w/o Algernon Sidney Blair |
| BLAIR, Rosa | 18 Oct 1851 | 03 Jun 1854 | Rosa E.; d/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James |
| BLAIR, Emma W. | 08 Jul 1853 | 06 Oct 1854 | d/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James |
| BLAIR, Ella F. | 17 Jul 1855 | 29 Sep 1862 | Sarabella Francis; d/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James |
| BLAIR, Willie P. | 28 Feb 1859 | 29 Sep 1862 | s/o Algernon Sidney Blair & Mildred Malvina James |
| HOUSEMAN, Fannie I. | 04 Dec 1872 | 18 Oct 1880 | d/o William M. Houseman & Frances L. Blair |
| HOUSEMAN, Alonzo B. | 13 Nov 1876 | 07 Mar 1887 | s/o William M. Houseman & Frances L. Blair |
| BLAIR, Thomas | [1789] | [20 Sep 1876] | Unmarked; s/o John Blair & Charity Bourne |