General James Blair

1786 - 1834  (47 years)

• Name	James Blair
  Prefix	General
  Birth	26 Sep 1786	Lancaster County, South Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Apr 1834	Washington, DC   [1]
  Person ID	I4590	First tree
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	William Blair,   b. 24 Mar 1759, Lancaster County, South Carolina d. 2 Jul 1824, Lancaster County, South Carolina (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Sarah Douglass,   b. 16 Jul 1763, Lancaster District, South Carolina d. 17 Sep 1816, Lancaster District, South Carolina (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F58812	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Rochelle,   b. 1787, North Carolina, USA d. 1852, Wilson's Springs, North Carolina (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	6 Feb 1820	Kershaw District, South Carolina
  Children	1. Lovick William Rochelle Blair,   b. 10 Jul 1821, Red Oak Camp, Kershaw County, South Carolina d. 4 Jul 1882, South Carolina, USA (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F58826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2015

  
  

• Notes

  James Blair was elected General of the Militia in 1818 at the age of twenty-eight. Thereafter, he was called General Blair. General Blair was six feet, six inches tall, weighed about three hundred pounds, and was very hot-tempered. He was elected to the U.S. Congress by Kershaw, Lancaster, Chesterfield, and Sumter Counties in 1821, and resigned in 1822. He was re-elected in 1828. He lived about six miles from what is now Bethune at Red Oak Camp on Lynche's Creek. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol as pain killers for rheumatism. He fought many duels, and once fired at an actor onstage in Washington. He shot himself in a hotel room in Washington in 1852, and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1697] Headstone, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC.