Frans Adolph BLY

1. Copied from the 8 Dec 1934 issue of the Moberly Monitor Index and

Democrat:

"F.A. BLY, FATHER OF 18 CHILDREN, DIES

5 Daughters, 7 Sons Survive Well Known Farmer, Native of Sweden

F.A. Bly, 80, a native of Sweden who had lived in Randolph County 57

years, died at 10:30 o'clock last night at his home six miles east of

Moberly. He had been ill the past five years.

Mr. Bly, whose full name was Francis Adolph, was born November 1,

1854, in Skofde, Sweden. He reared his family of 18 children on the

farm on which he died.

He is survived by his widow, five daughters and seven sons. The

daughters are Hilda Clark and Mrs. Frances Wood of Bonner Springs, Kas.,

Mrs. Anna Goings, Nowata, Okla., and Mrs. Fern White and Mrs. Mary

Andrews, Moberly. The sons are Ben Bly, Everett Bly and Adolph Bly of

Kansas City, Leo, Roy and Tom Bly of Moberly, and Len Bly of Sioux City,

IA. He is also survived by 31 grandchildren and several nieces and

nephews of Moberly and Kansas City.

Mr. Bly came to this country when he was about 21 years old with a

brother, the late A.J. Leavene, and a sister, the late Mrs. Arnold

Anderson. His first wife, Mrs. Charlotte Christina Bly, whom he married

during a visit to his native land, died following the birth of their

fifth child. The surviving wife is the former Belle Rosie McCart of

Chariton County.

Mr. Bly was reared and schooled in the Lutheran faith but was for

years a member of the Salem Christian Church near his farm home.

The body will remain at the home until the funeral hour. Funeral

services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the

Mahan Funeral Home by the Rev. L.H. Smith, pastor of the Gospel

Tabernacle, East Logan Street. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.

2. Francis Bly came to the U.S. in 1879; he was naturalized in 1900.

3. In the 1880 Randolph co., MO census he was listed as Franz Bly, age 25,

born in Sweden; was alone and was enumerated as a laborer with the

Leonard J. Grimes family.

4. The Bly farm was about six miles east of Moberly, MO.

5. His sister, Mary C. Bly, married Arne Andersen on 25 Oct 1879 in

Randolph co., MO; both were of Moberly when they married.

6. His ancestral home in Sweden is #14 in Vamb Parish, Skovda according to

Sharon Kelley

SOURCES INCLUDE:

1880 Randolph co., MO census, Sugar Creek Twp.

1900 Randolph co., MO census, Union Twp. [ED 146.7.13].

1910 Randolph co., MO census, Union Twp.

1920 Randolph co., MO census, Union Twp. ED 158, Sheet 1A.

1930 Randolph co., MO census, page 283.

World Family Tree, Vol. 31, Pedigree 511.

Correspondence (Mar., 2000) with Don Bly of Peoria, IL.

Correspondence (Mar., 2002) with Linda Bly Holub of Sheboygan, WI

Correspondence (Apr., 2002) with Sharon Kelly of Independence, MO

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