Fifth Generation

273. Mildred Irene BLUNT was born on Feb 22, 1878 in Sarepta, Webster Parish, LA.³⁹⁷ She died on Mar 28, 1962 in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Co., CA.³⁹⁸ She was buried in Mar 1962 in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Co., CA. The following is a letter from Millie Irene Barksdale to Amanda Blunt Braley after the death of Millie's father, James Bert Blunt. Millie was a few months over age 50 when she wrote this letter to Amanda, half-sister to Millie's father (Amanda's mother and James Bert's mother were sisters). Amanda was about 68-years old when she received this letter. Grammatical and spelling errors are preserved:

Rush Springs, Oklahoma

May 27, 1928

Mrs. Amanda Braley

My dear Auntie I will try this afternoon to write a few lines in answer to your dear sweet letter of a few days ago. I was so glad to know you got home and the trip didn't make you sick for you was so hoarse I was uneasy about you. I came home that night from Alberts and I was in bed for too weeks with flu and grief together. Oh Aunt we have been so lonely since our papa went away and left us. I feel like some times I can't ever stand it. When mama left us we had him left but now they are both gone. I feel like I want to go too but of course I can't until the good lord calls for me but heaven seems so near by with them and Edgar are all there. Oh Auntie I am so glad you were here and glad Doss came to. I think I have got such a good able man for a cousin. I sure do love him and I hope I get to come see you all this summer but don't know just yet. Aunt Mandy I hope you are well and feeling good all the time and I trust all the rest is well. How is cousin Dora's boy is he all right? I was so sorry to hear of Boots losing her boy. Well the weather is pretty raw but we sure have lots of rain washed every boddys crops away and they had to plant over sure is hard on the farmers. We are still living in the School building but we won't be here when school starts this fall and Mr. Barksdale don't know if he will have the job anymore or not but we hope to anyway. I am still keeping the little baby and I keep another little fellow through the day only on Sundays his mother is working and I keep the baby for her she is only the child's step mother so I don't think she cares much about him. Well Jim's and Albert's folks are all well. Auntie tell Doss and Ada I will write to them sometime soon. Nova said you all got the things we sent you. I hope they were all in good condition when they got there. Well deare Auntie I will close for this time hoping you will answer real soon and a long letter for I am so lonely and am always so glad to heare from my dear old Auntie. I still remain your loving neice until death.

Millie

Tell all the rest helo for me.

Mildred Irene BLUNT and John HENRY were married on Sep 16, 1894 in Bossier Parish, LA.^399,400 John HENRY was born in Texas. He died in 1901 in Louisiana. Clifford Edward Blunt, in his Blunt (Blount) Genealogy papers, writes that John Henry shot Nelson Blunt twice in the back in about 1901. Nelson, half-brother to James Bert Blunt, Sr., did not die.

Clifford also wrote that he met Nelson in 1928 when he made a trip to Louisiana with his father, Bert, Sr. He said that his grandfather, Bert, Sr., killed John Henry in 1901 which was the reason that the family moved to the Oklahoma Territory. Mildred Irene BLUNT and John HENRY had the following children:

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Alpha Adeline HENRY.

Mildred Irene BLUNT and Lewis W. BARKSDALE were married on Jul 22, 1906 in Rush Springs, Grady Co., OK.⁴⁰¹
Mildred must have remarried Lewis. They appear together in 1930 census as man and wife. They appeared in the census on Apr 27, 1910 in Grady Co., OK.⁴⁰² They appeared in the census on Jan 15, 1920 in Grady Co., OK.⁴⁰³ Lewis W. BARKSDALE was born about 1852 in Mississippi. He appeared in the census on Apr 10, 1930 in San Bernardino Co., CA, enumerated with daughter, and son-in-law Charles Anderson.. He died about 1931 in California.

There is a Lewis Barksdale in the 1900 Terrel, Kaufman Co., TX census with wife Susan, and adult children Clay, Joe, Etta and 15-yr old Dena. This Lewis was born in MS in July 1851 and is likely to be the one that married Mildred Blunt in 1906.

Mildred Irene BLUNT and Lewis W. BARKSDALE had the following children:

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Helen Alois BARKSDALE.

Mildred Irene BLUNT and Nathan PENN were married about 1937 in Rush Springs, Grady Co., OK. Nathan PENN was a US postal employee He died about 1938 in Rush Springs, Grady Co., OK.