BlairAndCernyFamilie..

FORE}'ORD
I, Rosemary Anne Blair have always wanted to corpile a book
with knowledgee facts and necrologies of the Blair and Cerny
fenilies and for many years I maintained a scrap book of my
oun and this was nbst beneficial to me for the assemblage of
this book. Also., checking with old ledgers, many articles
from neurspapers, dates in the cerneteries and many trips to
the state archives have helped inmensely and without this
assistance my own efforts r.rould have been fruitless.
The renerred acquaintence of the Cerny family in Anna and
Cobdin, Illinois that I have visited for the past several
years has been most rewarding. I try to visit with then
every year or so and it is such a pleasure to be with thgn.
I had not seen some of these hospi tabl ee corpetentl and
friendly cousins of nry nother for so many years.
I have no knowledge of the ancestry or lineal descent of the
Cerny family other than they inmigrated from Germany. I do
not remgnber our grandfather, Anthony Cerny or our grandrother,
lhry Cerny. The Blair fsnily inmigrated from Ireland
to Anerica. I do not renernber our grandmother, Frances Blair
but I well rernember our grandfather, Patrick Blair who w*ld
come out to the farm in the sunmer and he rrould help our father
with different kinds of carperrter work like reinforcing the corn
crib where ear corn was stored.
I can only conceive the hardships and sacrifices our forefathers
endured when they came to America, settled and made a
home and livelihood for thenrselves r'n a strange land especial ly
when many of them were suffering frorn famine and yel low fever.
The olden days mrst have been a rpnderful age and era to live
in even with its austeritr'es and the many hardships. The people
were somqhat uneducated but cornpn sense was used plus all the
inhibitions learned frqn their childhood and the understandings
of what they had already endured.
It has been a great fulfillment and rnost rewarding on my part
to have written this book. Rerniniscing is present in alI of us
even though many mernbers of our fanily have departed this earth.
we all can be accused of being great procrastinators at one time
or another in our lives and therefore we should consider our
lives and all of our undertakings have been rnost auspicious
only with the help of God.