History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 290.   [Caledonia Precinct]

WILLIAM G. BLAIN, farmer, was born July 27, 1829, in Halifax County, Va.
His parents are Ephraim and Keziah Blain, both natives of same county and
State.  The father was second cousin of Hon. James G. Blaine.  He was a
farmer and came to Montgomery County, Tenn., in 1838, and settled, in 1847,
at Roaring Springs, Ky.  He left and went to Graves County, Ky., in 1857,
and there yet lives at the age of seventy-eight.  He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.  The mother died while in Tennessee, in
1844, aged thirty-two; she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Our subject began for himself at the age of nineteen, not having a dollar.
He farmed two years, and procured money enough to attend school for
several years.  He then taught school for nine years with good success.
Farming next engaged his attention, in which he has been attended with good
success.  He now owns a comfortable home and has reared a family of twelve
children.  He was married in 1856 to Mary E. Smith, of this county.  They
have had seventeen children, viz.: George W., William B., Joseph B.
(deceased) Jefferson D. (deceased), Julia A. (deceased), John T. Mattie
P. and Robert P. (twins), Adam C., Charles W. (twins, deceased), Lizzie O.
Martha C. (deceased), twins, (unnamed, deceased), Commie H., Mellie B. and
Benjamin B.  George W. is married to Fanny E. Averitt.  Mina D. is their
only child.  Mr. and Mrs. Blain are both members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.  The former is also a member of the Masonic order.
He has been Justice of the Peace twelve years.  Mr. Blain is a practical
surveyor, and has followed that calling the past thirty years, in Trigg
and surrounding counties.  He has the best reputation as a surveyor of any
man in this part of the State.  He frequently has calls to Montgomery and
Stewart Counties in Tennessee.

Blain Smith Averitt Blaine
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Graves-KY Halifax-VA Montgomery-TN

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