Dorcas Blair

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Died, on Monday, the 5th of March, 1860, Miss Dorcas Blair, in the sixty ninth year of yer age. She was born on the 14th of December, 1791, in that part of South Carolina known as the Waxhaws, Lancaster District.
The Lancaster Ledger SC - April 4, 1860 - provided by; Catoe4

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Died on Monday, the 5th of March, 1860, at twenty minutes past six o'clock pm, Miss Dorcas Blair, in the sixty-ninth year of her age.
She was born on the 14th of December 1791, in that part of South Carolina known as the Waxhaws, Lancaster District. She has left an only surviving elder sister and younger brother to lament her loss. After the death of their elder brother, Gen. James Blair, in 1834, they emigrated to Shelby county, Tennessee, whither their younger brother, George Douglas Blair, had previously gone and settled, where they have since sojourned together, and by the honest labor and economy of the two sisters, each had accumulated consisteratable property, consisting mostly of slaves whom they raised, and for whom they cherished feelings approaching that of parental affection.
The deceased was baptized a member of the old Waxhaw church, the home of her father and mother, William Blair and Sarah Douglas Blair, and their death, removing to Kershaw District, in a neighborhood remote from any Presbyterian church, they became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever since remained so. The deceased was exemplary and charitable, always having due regard for the rights of theirs, while she maintained with forgiving generosity infringements upon her own, and in but few instances ever driven to in force them by the last alternative of law. Her life was one of labor, industry ad many difficulties encountered, and for the last few years of lingering and declining health. She has gone where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." Requiescat in Pace. G.D.B.
The Camden Weekly (SC) March 27, 1860 - provided by: Catoe4* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 23 2023, 23:10:00 UTC