George Dawson Blackmore was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in the month of February 1762, and died in Sumner County, Tennessee, September 27, 1833. He was a soldier in the Continental army in the Revolutionary War, enlisted December 19, 1776; was a corporal in Captain Calmer's company, Second Virginia, commanded by Colonel Spotswood and by Colonel Febiger; was a Sergeant in March 1779; was ensign July 4, 1779, and Lieutenant in February, 1781, and served till the close of the war. He was a prisoner at Charleston in May, 1780. The war records of the United States War Department show that he resigned April 1, 1782. This may be true, yet he continued in the service elsewhere.

He married Elizabeth Neely in Sumner County, Tennessee, on December 25, 1786. She died December 13, 1833. She was a daughter of Captain Alex. Neely, who was killed by Indians near Bledsoe's Lick. Her mother was Elizabeth Montgomery, a sister of Catherine Montgomery, wife of Colonel Isaac Bledsoe, the pioneer. He served in the Indian warfare in the settlement of Sumner County; was a Captain and commanded a company at Nickajack. George Dawson and Elizabeth (Neely) Blackmore had ten children- four sons and six daughters. Two of the daughters, Polly and Margaret, died in infancy. One, Elizabeth, never married. Rachel married James Charlton and reared a large family in Sumner County. Three of her sons removed to Mississippi, where they died. Two removed to Texas and one to South Carolina. Catherine Montgomery Dawson married Judge Joe C. Guild and reared a family of sons and daughters. Major George Blackmore Guild and Mrs. Colonel Baxter Smith of Nashville, and Mrs. Kittie G. Young of Gallatin are her children now living. Emaline married James Hadley and reared two sons, both dead. Charles Neely Blackmore reared a large family in Sumner County. Three of his sons, Andrew J., James A., and William M. Blackmore, are yet living. Dawson Blackmore died at the age of thirty six and was unmarried. Dr. James A. Blackmore lived in Sumner County and reared three children, all of whom are dead. He died in 1863. William Montgomery Blackmore lived in Gallatin and had three sons, two of whom died in infancy. The other, and youngest is Hon. James W. Blackmore of Gallatin, a prominent lawyer, and one of the most useful and beloved citizens of the county. He has served as Mayor of Gallatin several terms, and two terms, 1883-87, as State Senator. William M. Blackmore married Rachel Jackson Barry, daughter of Redmond Dillion Barry. He served as a Captain of Company I, Tenth Legion. First Tennessee Regiment, Colonel W. B. Campbell, in the war with Mexico, 1846- 47.

Captain George Dawson Blackmore came to Sumner County with the Bledsoes, or soon afterwards. After the Indian Wars had ceased he settled on a farm about four miles from Gallatin, on the Bledsoe Lick road. In 1792 and 1793 he was a Captain in the service of the territory south of Ohio River. John Carr, a contemporary, says of him: "He commanded a company of and was also employed as Quartermaster in supplying provisions for the troops stationed at the various forts. He was active, sprightly and energetic and as brave a man as I ever saw." He was a man of prominence in Virginia before coming to the Cumberland county. His fort was the lowest down on Clinch River, at the mouth of Stony Creek, in what is now Scott County. It was an important place, and is frequently mentioned as early as the time of Dunmore's war.