Blake ~ Mann Photos

Submitted by Robert C. Mann


Henry Coleman Blake b. 02 July 1849, (son of Henry Blake and Joannah Ward) and his wife, Susan Jane McLeskey b. 1846.  Susan was the daughter of John McLeskey and Elisabeth E. Osborne, and a sister of Louis McLeskey, husband of Melissa Blake (pictured bottom right).  Melissa and Henry Colman were brother and sister. Henry Coleman and Susan were the parents of Caroline Blake, Cordele Emeline Blake, Arminta Ann Blake (pictured bottom left), and Samuel Arter Blake.  All of Clay County, AR.  Henry Coleman died 15 October 1920 in Piggott, AR, Susan died in 1927. 


Arminta Ann Blake
, daughter of Henry Coleman and Susan Jane McLeskey (pictured top right).  She was born 24 November 1874 in Piggott, AR and died 15 June 1970 also in Piggott.  She married (1) Irvin Elmo Gordon 3 November 1897 in Piggott and (2) James William Lewis on 18 August, 1901 also in Piggott.


James William Lewis, son of Jeremiah Tucker Lewis, was born 29 December 1868 in Hamilton Co., IL and he died 28 October 1945 in Piggott, AR.  His wife, Arminta Ann Blake, daughter of Henry Coleman Blake and Susan Jane McLeskey (above left), was born 24 November 1874 in Piggott, AR and died 14 June 1970 in Piggott.