History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 588.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

ELLY BLACKBURN, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Great Crossings, was born
in Scott County, Ky., in 1842; he is a son of Dr. Churchill J. Blackburn.
He spent a time in Georgetown College, but finished his education in the
school of B. B. Sayre, at Frankfort.  He enlisted in the 13th Arkansas
Infantry in 1862, but was transferred the following year to the 9th
Kentucky Cavalry, Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge'e regiment; while in the
Infantry her was at Perryville, Ky., and Murfreesboro, Tennessee; he was
a member of the Wheeler's Corps, and participated in the numerous
engagements of the army of the Tennessee; at Jug Tavern near Athens,
Georgia, he was captured, but soon made his escape; he served until the
close of the war.  In 1866 he married Miss Virginia, daughter of Alexander
D. Offutt, of this county, and since their union has engaged in farming.
He has paid considerable attention to the rearing of short-horn cattle.
His present place of 371 acres, situated on NOrth Elkhorn, is appropriately
name "Elkwood."  The father of our subject was born near White Sulphur,
this county, in 1803; was educated in the schools of the county, and at
a private school in Jefferson County, Ky.; he studied medicine with his
father, Dr. C. J. Blackburn, of Versailles, Ky., whose name he bears, and
attended lectures at the Transylvania University at Lexington, in President
Holly's time; he located for practiced near White Sulphur in about 1830;
and practiced for twenty years, with success, when he gave it up for
farming, at which he was very successful, amassing an estate of 500 acres;
he was three times married; successively, first, to Miss Keene, of
Lexington, who bore him one child; his second wife was Miss Elly, of
Scott County, who bore him the subject of this sketch, and his third wife
was Mrs. Branham, of Woodford County; his grandfather was Julius Blackburn
a native of Virginia, who fought five years in the Revolutionary war, and
came to Kentucky in 1790, first living in Woodford County, but afterward
moving to this county.

Blackburn Offutt Keene Branham
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Jefferson-KY Franklin-KY Woodford-KY VA

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