CHARLES MINOR BLACKFORD
Was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on October 17, 1833, the son
of William M. Blackford, who later removed to Lynchburg. His
mother was Mary Berkeley Minor, daughter of Gen. John Minor of
Fredericksburg, who married Lucy Landon Carter. For the first two
years of the late war C. M. Blackford was captain of Company B, 2d
Virginia Cavalry, the remaining years he was on staff of Gen. Longstreet,
as judge advocate of his corps. On February 19, 1856, he was
married in Albemarle county, Virginia, to Susan Leigh Colston, who
was born in Richmond, January 9, 1835. She is the daughter of Thos.
Marshall Colston, of Fauquier county, Virginia, and his wife, nee
Eliza Jaqueline Fisher of Richmond. The record of the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Blackford is: Nannie Colston, born April 20, 1857, married
Samuel T. Withers, died February 6, 1884; Charles Minor, born September
20, 1865, now a physician in practice; R. Colston, born June
25, 1870.
Mr. Blackford graduated in law, at the University of Virginia, and is
now in full practice as a member of the law firm of Kirkpatrick &
Blackford at Lynchburg. He is also president of the People's National
Bank of Lynchburg, the largest bank in that City and one of the most
solvent and successful in the State. Mr. Blackford has also for many
years been a director in the Virginia Midland Railway and has been
identified with all railroad development on that line, which is now a
part of the Richmond & Danville Railroad system. He is counsel for
the Midland Division of that system.
