Bertie/Birdie Blanks Houston

ID Number: T02051

Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: female Ethnicity: Immigration: Attributed Race: white Free or Enslaved: free

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1876/05/00 Birthplace: Amherst County, Virginia Mother: Mary Burford Blanks Father: John C. Blanks 1st Spouse: Isaiah Henry Houston, Sr. 2nd Spouse: none

Age Details

Age: 38 Age Group: adult (20-59)

Life Details

Occupation(s): homemaker Last Church: Military Service: Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: 714 Withers Street

Death

Death Date: 1914/10/31 Death Note: none Place of Death: home Cause of Death: consumption of lungs

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1914/11/02 Funeral Home: Diuguid Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes Section: 211.E Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker Grave Marker Erector(s): descendants (see file) Confirmation Source for Interment: official ledger

Others In Same Plot (T0109)

Full Name

Birth Date

Death Date

Elmo Houston

1899//

1915/09/15

John Charles, Jr. Houston

1845//

1920/07/20

Nannie/Nancy May Dowdy Houston

1845//

1924/05/03

George Washington Houston

Ernest Arthur Leebrick

1916/08/05

1916/08/11

Dora Edna Houston Leebrick

1896/10/30

1919/06/09

Obituary and Biographical Detials

Her husband Isaiah Henry Houston, Sr., died in 1954 and was buried in Fort Hill Memorial Park in Lynchburg. He was the son of John Charles Houston, Jr., and Nannie May Dowdy Houston. He remarried Carrie Lucado after Bertie’s death.