My Family Tree - Blakesley, Emory J

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Occupation: Orchestra leader, newspaper publisher
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Dec 1930, Thermopolis Record:
Emory J. Blakesley
Another of Pioneers Ends Useful Career
Funeral Services Held at Thermopolis Saturday
Emory J. (Hal) Blakesley was born at Lafayette, Ill., on April 22, 1871, and died at Thermopolis, Wyo., Thursday, December 11, 1930, being in his 59th year at the time of his death.

Shortly after his father's death, Hal Blakesley started west and located at Lander, Wyo., in 1901. He there organized the first band in that community and was leader of the Silver String orchestra. Later he moved to Otto and there he and a brother, Lou Blakesley, who passed away several years ago, edited and published the first newspaper to be printed in the Basin country.

On November 7, 1890, he was united in marriage to Sylvia Viola Cranmer, and to this union there were born eleven children, all of whom are living and who were present at the time of his death.

Mr. Blakesley was a member of the Modern Woodmen and also the Knights of Pythias lodge.

Those who knew this pioneer knew him as one of the courageous characters who helped develop the Big Horn basin. He was the last of a family of six who came to this country many years ago.

Funeral services were held from the Eastman Mortuary on Saturday afternoon last, the services being conducted by Rev. S.E. Anspaugh, of the Community church. Interment took place at Riverside cemetery.

The survivers are as follows: His wife, Mrs. E.J. Blakesley, Darrel R. Blakesley, Oregon Basin; Floyd E. Blakesley, Thermopolis; Mrs. Mabel Williams, Thermopolis; Emory J. Blakesley Jr., Sheephorn, Colo., Mrs. Charles J. Williams, Otto; Mrs. Harry O. Ray, Thermopolis; Lou R. Blakesley, Conrad, Mont., Mrs. Boyd C. Collings, Bellflower, Calif.; Mrs. Maurice E. Lewis, Brookville, Kans.; and Jack Blakesley of Thermopolis.

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Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	22 April 1871	Lafayette, Stark Co., Illinois, USA

Death	11 December 1930	Thermopolis, Hot Springs Co., Wyoming, USA

Burial		Riverside Cmtry., Thermopolis, Hot Springs Co., Wyoming, USA

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Blakesley, Edmund Charles	26 February 1829	16 August 1884
Mother	Lake, Olive Adelia	7 November 1830	11 November 1902
Brother	Blakesley, Charles A	9 October 1852	14 April 1862
Brother	Blakesley, James Orvis	22 August 1854	12 July 1913
Sister	Blakesley, Ella M	30 April 1859	30 October 1861
Brother	Blakesley, Rolland E	11 April 1861	11 October 1911
Brother	Blakesley, Ernest Edmund	25 November 1862	May 1906
Sister	Blakesley, Helen Ione	7 August 1865	7 May 1928
Brother	Blakesley, Lewis W	8 April 1868	6 September 1926
	Blakesley, Emory J	22 April 1871	11 December 1930