Black male, born about 1880. He died on 24 February 1930 at Pensacola Hospital of chronic nephritis at about the age of 50. His last residence was Chase Street and Luke’s Alley in Pensacola. There was no informant on the death certificate and no information on his birthplace or his parents. He was buried by T.M. Lloyd in the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery.
George Blair appeared in two Pensacola City Directories before his death: In 1913, he was listed as a bayman, living at 908 E. Wright Street in Pensacola; in 1927 he was listed as a laborer, livnig at 107 E. Chase Street. (Today this location is over two blocks away from where the intersection with Luke’s Alley would have been, which is the area now occupied by the Civic Center, but I am unsure whether the houses have been renumbered.) A George Blair appears in the 1916 and 1919 directories, but that George Blair appears to have been White.
A World War I draft card from 1918 showed George Blair as born 11 March 1880, and living at 419 E. Romana St., Pensacola. His nearest relative was Mattie (or perhaps Mollie) Blair, living in Galveston, Texas. He worked as a laborer for the Pensacola Electric Co. in the Brent Building. He was described as medium height, with a stout build, black hair and black eyes. He signed his name with an X.
George Blair appeared in the 1924 City Directory for Galveston, Texas, working as a laborer at S P Docks.
Research continues to locate Mattie/Mollie Blair and to ascertain George Blair’s relationship to her, as well as where George Blair was born so that he can be associated definitively with census records.
SOURCES:
Florida Certificate of Death No. 2512, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.