Birth: 14 July 1886 Landax (Lowell), Lane, Oregon, USA
Father: Thomas James Blakely 1859-1936
Mother: Annie Rettie Michael 1858-1888
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 2 October 1920 Harney, Oregon, USA
Wife: Grace Thorne 1902-1991
Death: 8 June 1964 Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, USA
Burial: 11 June 1964 Mount Vernon Pioneer Cemetery (also known as Middle Fork or Landax), Springfield, Lane, Oregon, USA
Walter Daniel Blakely 1921-1996
Beulah Irene Blakely 1922-1925
Frank Clifford Blakely 1928-2007
His place of birth is given as either Lowell or Landax (the latter was flooded by the building of a dam creating Lookout Point Reservoir in the 1950s, Lowell being the nearest city today).
His mother died in Lane, Oregon in 1888, his father married Mary Lutecia Sprague on 2 February 1891 in Lowell, Lane, Oregon, but she died on 2 December 1898 in Lowell.
In the 1900 census as Lester L Blakely aged 13, born in Oregon, and living with his widowed father (Thomas J born in California - his mother was born in Indiana), (half)brother (Walter L), Isabell M and Estella F Blakely (relationship uncertain) in Middle Fork, Lane, Oregon
His father mmarried Rosa Ann Mackey in Lowell on 2 November 1902.
In the 1910 census as Lester Blakely aged 24, born in Curry, Harney, Oregon, father born in California, mother in United States, single and a teamster on a freight team and assistant to Henry A Champagne aged 49 and a camp tender in a sheep camp in Curry, Harney, Oregon.
Entry in Ancestry U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for Lester Lower Blakely born on 14 July 1886 in Lowell, Oregon, a self employed farmer, single, slender build, medium height, brown eyes and hair, bald and residing in Riley, Harney, Oregon.
Entry in Ancestry New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 for Lester D (sic - on the typed orginal) Blakely, born on 14 July 1886 in Landax, Oregon, US Navy, arrived in New York on 21 January 1919 on the Giuseppe Verdi, from Genoa, Italy.
Entry in Ancestry Oregon, Marriage Indexes, 1906-1924, 1946-2008 for Lester L Blakely on 2 October 1920 in Harney.
In the 1930 census as Lester L Blakely aged 43, born in Oregon, father born in California, mother in United States, married at 34, a veteran of world war, a farmer and loggure and living with his wife (Grace), and two sons (Walter D and Frank) in his own house with no radio on the road West of Creswell, West, Northwest and Southwest to about 9 miles out to Jones Last in Orchard, Lane, Oregon.
In the 1940 census as Lester Blakley (sic - in the index, Blakly on the original) aged 53, born in Oregon, a farmer on a dairy farm working on his own account and living in his own house value $300 with his wife (Grace) and son (Frank) in Gravelford, Coos, Oregon, (Rural, Lane, Oregon in 1935).
Entry in Ancestry U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards for Lester Lower Blakely born on 14 July 1886 in Lowell, Oregon, USA, a farmer and residing in Doro Road, Myrtle Point, Oregon, in 1942, Grace Blakely (wife?) at the same address. Height 5 ft 8 in, weight 140, brown eyes, gray hair, bald, a ruddy complexion and a scar on lower right leg from broken leg.
Entry in Ancestry Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 for Lester Blakeley on 8 June 1964 in Josephine, spouse Grace.
Entry in Find a Grave for Lester L Blakely born 14 July 1886, died 8 June 1964, buried Mount Vernon Pioneer Cemetery, Springfield, Lane, Oregon, USA. "Lester L Blakely/Oregon/QM2 US Navy/World War i/July 14 1886 June 8 1964"
Entry in Ancestry U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 for Lester Blakely born on 14 July 1886, enlisted on 15 December 1917, released on 11 August 1919, SSN 543165491, died on 6 June 1964.
Entry in Ancestry Social Security Death Index for Lester Blakely born on 14 July 1886, SSN 543-16-5491 issued Oregon - Before 1951, last residence Grants Pass, 97526, Josephine, Oregon, USA.
Entry in Ancestry U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 for Lester L Blakely, spouse Grace Thorne, child Walter Daniel Blakely.
There are eight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Lester Lower Blakely born on 14 July 1886 in Lowell, Lane, Oregon, USA, parents Thomas James Blakely and Anna Rettle Michael, his marriage to Grace Thorn/Thorne on 2 October 1920 in Harney, Oregon, three children and his death on 8 June 1964 at Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, USA.
"Blakely - Lester L Blakely of Grants Pass, Oregon passed away June 8, 1964 in Grants Pass. He was born July 14, 1888 in Landax, Oregon. He is survived by his wife Grace of Grants Pass, 2 sons, Frank of Rogue River, Walta of Santa Rosa, California; 6 brothers: Walter Winfrey of Oakridge, Clyde and Orville Blakely both of Dexter, Harold Blakely of Albany and John Clark of Eugene; a sister Clara Clark of Eugene; numerous neices and nephews. Funeral services will be held Thursday, June 11, 1964 at 2 p.m. in Bluebell Chapel, Elder William W. Bing officiating. Internment to follow in Middle Fork Cemetery.
Lester Lower Blakely was the father of Walter Daniel Blakely, husband of Karen Ann Bungey, great granddaughter of Caroline Fox, wife of Alfred Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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