Richard Blake

Title

Richard Blake

Aliases

None listed

Date

5 October 1894-23 November 1915

Description

Regiment: 21st USCT
Company: E
Rank: Private
Mustered-in Date and Place: 24 April 1863 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out Date and Place: 25 April 1866 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Not listed
Comrades Mentioned: Robert Robertson, Alexander Floyd

Name(s) of spouse(s): Rebecca Johnson Bryan
Children: Not listed

Veteran's birth date and location: ~1821 on Combahee River, South Carolina, United States
Plantation(s): Blake Plantation
Enslaver(s): Arthur Middleton Blake (1812-1881)

Parents of veteran: Molly
Other listed family members: Edward Bryan and Lula Webb (grandnephew/niece), Anna Washington and William B Murray (cousins)

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: William Simmons
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Thomas Johnson (brother of Rebecca)

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.