Mr. Blake is the son of Peter Blake and Mary Curren and has eight other siblings. He married Margaret Huggart, daughter of James and Elizabeth Huggart, on May 12, 1818 in Greenbrier Co., VA (now WV). They had seven children: James, Sarah, Peter, Mary, Alexander Jr., Tyler and Minnie. Margaret died in 1847. Alexander and the kids moved to Strawberry Point in 1851. He married Jane Campbell in 1854.
From "The History of Clayton County", 1882, the chapter on Cass township: "In 1851 the first horse team was brought into Cass Township by Alex. Blake, Sr. In 1852 Alex. Blake Sr. erected a small feed mill on Spring Branch one and a half miles north of Strawberry Point; this mill was run by a very large spring, the water of which fell about twenty-five feet directly upon the water-wheel of the mill. He afterward converted it into a flour-mill, and in 1858 it was burned down. In 1859 the location of the mill was moved about one-half of a mile down stream, where the additional assistance of several large springs gave them a fall of about sixty feet, and a large stone flouring mill and brewery was erected thereon, by John Kleinlein, and both are now in successful operation."
From "The History of Clayton County", 1882, the chapter on Cass township: "In 1851 the first horse team was brought into Cass Township by Alex. Blake, Sr. In 1852 Alex. Blake Sr. erected a small feed mill on Spring Branch one and a half miles north of Strawberry Point; this mill was run by a very large spring, the water of which fell about twenty-five feet directly upon the water-wheel of the mill. He afterward converted it into a flour-mill, and in 1858 it was burned down. In 1859 the location of the mill was moved about one-half of a mile down stream, where the additional assistance of several large springs gave them a fall of about sixty feet, and a large stone flouring mill and brewery was erected thereon, by John Kleinlein, and both are now in successful operation."
Mr. Blake is the son of Peter Blake and Mary Curren and has eight other siblings. He married Margaret Huggart, daughter of James and Elizabeth Huggart, on May 12, 1818 in Greenbrier Co., VA (now WV). They had seven children: James, Sarah, Peter, Mary, Alexander Jr., Tyler and Minnie. Margaret died in 1847. Alexander and the kids moved to Strawberry Point in 1851. He married Jane Campbell in 1854.
From "The History of Clayton County", 1882, the chapter on Cass township: "In 1851 the first horse team was brought into Cass Township by Alex. Blake, Sr. In 1852 Alex. Blake Sr. erected a small feed mill on Spring Branch one and a half miles north of Strawberry Point; this mill was run by a very large spring, the water of which fell about twenty-five feet directly upon the water-wheel of the mill. He afterward converted it into a flour-mill, and in 1858 it was burned down. In 1859 the location of the mill was moved about one-half of a mile down stream, where the additional assistance of several large springs gave them a fall of about sixty feet, and a large stone flouring mill and brewery was erected thereon, by John Kleinlein, and both are now in successful operation."
From "The History of Clayton County", 1882, the chapter on Cass township: "In 1851 the first horse team was brought into Cass Township by Alex. Blake, Sr. In 1852 Alex. Blake Sr. erected a small feed mill on Spring Branch one and a half miles north of Strawberry Point; this mill was run by a very large spring, the water of which fell about twenty-five feet directly upon the water-wheel of the mill. He afterward converted it into a flour-mill, and in 1858 it was burned down. In 1859 the location of the mill was moved about one-half of a mile down stream, where the additional assistance of several large springs gave them a fall of about sixty feet, and a large stone flouring mill and brewery was erected thereon, by John Kleinlein, and both are now in successful operation."
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