Personal
Dr. James H. Blake had 5 children, Thomas Holdsworth Blake, Dr. John Bond Blake, James Heighe Blake Jr., Joseph Richard Blake and one daughter Glorvina Blake. Thomas Holdsworth Blake was appointed U.S. Attorney for State of Indiana in 1817; one of three men selected by the Indiana state legislature in 1818 to cast the state's first electoral votes for president of the U.S.; the first presiding judge of First Circuit Court of Indiana; elected Indiana state representative; elected Indiana State senator; U.S. congressman; head of the U.S. Land Office in Washington, D.C. (1842–1845); Indiana University trustee (1829–1838); and resident trustee of the Wabash & Erie Canal. A. Page 160.
James Heighe Blake died on July 29, 1819 at the age of fifty two. The remains were interred in the Methodist Episcopal Burial Ground in Georgetown and then moved to the William A. Gordon lot in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D.C. on November 2, 1870.
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