Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 758-759 [Christian]

     DR. THOMAS W. BLAKEY is one of the foremost medical
practitioners in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and has made a reputation
for skill and professional ability that gains him the confidence and
patronage of the representative citizens of the town and county.  He
was born in Russellville, Logan county, Kentucky, August 4, 1858. 
The family is of Scotch-Irish descent, and the earliest American
ancestor came over contemporarily with the Mayflower Pilgrims. 
William Blakey, the great grandfather of Dr. Blakey, was a native of
Virginia and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, having crossed the
Delaware on that memorable occasion with Washington.  He was one of
the pioneers of Logan county, Kentucky, and settled in the woods
among the Indians and wild animals.  His son, Thomas, who is
supposed to have been born in Logan county, built the first brick
house in that county.
     Churchill H. Blakey, the father of Dr. Blakey, was a native of
Logan county and followed farming as his life occupation.  He
married Mary Catherine Beckel, a daughter of Judge Theodore Beckel,
who was a prominent pioneer of Kentucky.  He had been a soldier with
Bonaparte and was captured by the English and taken as a prisoner of
war to Canada, whence, after his liberation, he came to Kentucky. 
He located in Russellville, where he was a leading business man and
city judge.  He was of French origin.  Churchill H. Blakey and wife
had nine children, six sons and three daughters, and eight grew up.
     Dr. Blakey was the oldest of the family, and was reared in
Logan county, receiving his schooling in Auburn.  He formed an
ambition to study medicine and entered Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia, and after his graduation located in Auburn, Kentucky. 
He practiced there five years, and in 1887 came to Hopkinsville,
where he has built up a large patronage.
     Dr. Blakey was married in 1884 to Miss Lucile [sic] Blakley, a
daughter of G. T. and Sarah E. Blakley of Logan county.  They have
two children, Sallie and Churchill.  Dr. Blakey is a member of the
Christian County Medical Society, of the Southwestern Kentucky
Medical Society and the Railway Surgeons' Medical Association.  He
is a Mason and a member of the Baptist church.

Blakey Beckel Blakley
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Logan-KY VA

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