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I,IAYME BLAIR
Our aunt, Hayme Blair never married and always lived
at home with her parents. She was the type of person
that never displayed any affection toward us. She had
the quality of being very clandestine and withdrawn
when it came to the Blair nieces and nephews. Howeverl
she was very generous and open-handed when it involved
her sisterrs children, the Hoss nephews. She bought a
lot of expensive gifts for them when they were too
young to appreciate thenr and she continually gave them
nxrney whenever they wanted it and they could buy anything
they desired regardless of the cost.
Her father, Patrick Blair was the exact opposil" e6 his
daughter and was always very supportive and helpful to
both our father and mother.
Shortly after her father died, she suggested to our fatherr
John Thomas Blai r that she might sel I the Payne farm that
she inherited frorn her father as she needed the nnney. Our
father mentioned to her he might be able to buy it but she
told him he could not afford to buy it. However, time went
on and nothing more was said about the farm. One Sunday we
all went to see her when she was living in an apartment on
North Sixth street in Springfield with the l{oss children and
she informed our father that she had sold the farm a few days
before to Doctor John Oonovan. Our father inmediately knew
that she sotd the farm at a low price in order to get the money.
This was in the year of 1936 or 1937 and the tenant farmer as
wel I as other farmers did not have the ready cash to buy a farm.
The farm was sol d for much I ess than i t was lrorth.
Maytne was a person with a very vindictive personality and she
never segned to have enough nrclney to her liking.
She was stricken with a heart attack at Sixth and Honroe
streets in Springfield and died l'larch 18, 1946 at the age of
60 years. Her brother, John Thomas Blair and the county of
Sangamon paid for her burial as she had no funds.