In review, Amarilla had three full siblings from the first marriage of Daniel’s. Amarilla and Henry survived to adulthood in this family till he was killed in 1892. Add the seven half-siblings from the 2nd marriage, minus the youngest who died.
There was more. Her step-mother Sarah Blacketer was married before she married Daniel D. Spracklin in 1863 in Iowa. Her first husband was Charles Edward Allgood.
Charles or perhaps he was referred to as Edward, was born on 9 June 1829 in Kentucky and it looks like he died sometime around March of 1861? I have not been able to verify it. I did locate Sarah and Edward in the 1860 census for Iowa. They were living in Mahaska County, Iowa.
Source: 1860 U.S. Federal Census for Edward Allgood, Mahaska County, Iowa, pg. 239, Oak Township, August 7, 1860, 1627/1709, Edward Allgood, 31 years, farmer, 310, born Kentucky, Sarah 23, housewife, born Indiana, Emily Allgood, 3 born in Indiana, Phebe D. Allgood under a year, born in Iowa
I descend from the Elizabeth (Keller) Spracklin and Daniel D. Spracklin line. The first family. So I really have not taken the time to study Sarah and her family origins. There are several living descendants of Sarah and Daniel, cousins, that know a lot more and have more on this side of the family.
What little I do know is that Sarah’s parents were James Houston Blacketer and Phoebe?
James was born on 6 April 1801 in Virginia and died 16 May 1852 while Phoebe lived from 1801 to 1861. He married Phoebe on 3 January 1824 in Mercer Co., Kentucky. James may have married three times to Susanna Hamilton, Sarah Hammer and Phoebe Romaine/Romine? Please verify this information for I am not real comfortable with it. I am questioning the Sarah Hammer part?
Source: Kentucky Marriages to 1850, Spouse: Blacketer, James married 03 Jan. 1824, to Romine, Phebe. Blacketer, James married on 18 Nov. 1820 to, Hamilton, Sarah, Ancestry.com.
Please note: Ancestry compiles the information from various sources and then makes a database. It is wise to check the details of their databases. You can access Ancestry at your local public library free with a library card.
I did meet a fellow researcher at the Iowa County Genealogical Society when I was in Marengo, Iowa several years back in 2003 and unfortunately I do not remember her name I was overwhelmed that day. She was more up on the Blacketers/Blacketeers/Blackaters than I was. It might be worth it to check with this society and see what they have in their surname files, pioneer files and obituaries and more on this family. I was there in 2003 and my focus was the Spracklins. They have moved their office and library from the Marengo Public Library. There is a link on the right side of this blog to this county genealogical society. Do not confuse it with the state society which is in Des Moines and titled the Iowa Genealogical Society.
Edward and Sarah married on 25 December 1852 in Rockville, Parke Co., Indiana.
Source: Marriages, 1851 to 1860, Parke County, Indiana, Compiled by Mrs. R. E. Bess Ott Swope Chairman of Genealogical records Committee, Estabrook Chaper to the DAR. Edward Allgood to Sarah Blacketer, Marriage Date: 25 Dec. 1852. Ancestry.com.
They had 4 maybe 5 children of which only one survived.
1. John G. Allgood 27 March 1854 to 25 September 1855.
2. James H. Allgood 3 Mar 1856 to 13 Mar 1856
3. Emily Jane Allgood born 3 May 1857 in Rosehill, Mahaska Co., Iowa and died 29 October 1925 in Mahaska Co., Iowa. She married a William M. Gilchrist 28 October 1875 in Marengo, Iowa Co., Iowa and they had 11 children. Emily was at the funeral of her mother in 1907. Daniel had to give his approval of Emily’s marriage. If you see the Gilchrist name it is probably Emily. More on this family in a later post. Emily and William had (11) eleven children that I know of.
4. Phoebe Delilah Allgood was born 18 Jan 1860 and died March 1861.
There might be a possibility of another child: There is a baby buried in the Titler Cemetery, northwest of Marengo, Iowa. The tombstone reads: Daug. of E & S. Allgood, Died May 18, 1862, aged 2 yrs. 4 mos.
I found this in the cemetery publications and photographs that I have featured on my BJM’s Cemetery Discoveries blog: http://bjmcemeterydiscoveries.blogspot.com/search/label/Titler%20Cemetery
Charles Edward Allgood has been difficult to trace. I checked the Iowa WPA Burials and there a many Allgoods in Mahaska County but I did not have enough detail to make a connection, so I do not know who Edward’s parents. I cannot find probate/estate files in Mahaska Co. in that county. I did find a James Algood Estate, John H. Allgood Estate and a John E. Allgood estate in the indexes for Mahaska Co., Iowa – Source Probate Records 1844-1899, Indexes 1851-1964, FHL# Probate Indexes #976783, Guardians #976791, Administrators Index 1856-1867 #975994 and Probate Records V. C-D 1860-1865 FHL#976787. I did not make copies, these are what was in the index only. No Charles or Edward only was appearing.
My theory is he is buried with other Allgoods in Titler cemetery north of Marengo? Some illness was sweeping the country in the early 1860’s and Canada, lots of people lost. Somehow Sarah had to get from Mahaska Co. to Benton Co. by 1863 to marry Daniel. So if the baby in the Titler is their child and it died in 1862 maybe Edward is there in Titler without a stone?
Titler’s cemetery’s records are not in good shape except for the two publications and my photographs of the cemetery tombstones. (See BJM’s Cemetery Discovery link above.) I was informed that there was no platte map found to help identify all those buried there. A Henry Blacketer is in the 1856 Iowa census living near Daniel and Elizabeth Spracklin in Benton County, Iowa.
I may or may not have this right but I have the following children for Sarah’s siblings it is looking like these might be all Phoebe’s children based on the marriage record I mentioned above and the Blacketer family history PDF link below:
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John Blacketer b. 17 May1827,
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Keziah Blacketer b. 22 May 1829,
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Mary Blacketer b. 30 December 1831,
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James Blacketer b. 1 July 1833,
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Sarah our subject,
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Delilah Blacketer b. 3 May 1842,
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Phoebe Blacketer born 5 May 1844
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1/2 brother (mother Susanna Hamilton?) Henry Baily Blacketer b. 18 Oct 1821 died about Oct. 1866 in Benton Co., Iowa and married a Mary who was born about 1822 in Tennesee. They had
JarvisJames R. Blacketer b. abt. 1842 in Iowa, Thomas I. Blacketer b. abt. 1844 Iowa and Sarah I. Blacketer b. abt. 1853 in Iowa.
I mentioned the 1856 Iowa State Census and that there were Blacketers near Daniel. Who is this Henry Blackater? An older sibling or some other connection to this family like the 8th child listed above?
Source: 1856 Iowa State Census, Benton Co., Iowa
Page. 80 – House dwelling 136, family 142 – D____(Should be Daniel), Spracklin, age 36, male, married, been in Iowa one year, born in Ohio, trade is carpenter. Spracklin, Elizabeth, 25 years old, female, married, one year in Iowa, born in Ohio. Henry Spracklin, 2 years old, male, 1 years in Iowa and born in Ohio.
Page 78 House 136, family 160 – Henry Blackater, 36 yrs old, Male, married, born in Kentucky, 3 yrs in Iowa, farmer, native, may have done military service. Mary Blackater, age 34, female, married, resident in Iowa 3 yrs., born in Tennessee. James R. Blackater, 14 yrs old, male, 3 yrs in Iowa and born in Indiana. Thomas I (J) Blackater 12 years old, 3 yrs. in Iowa and born in Indiana. Sarah Blackater is 3 yrs old, 3 yrs in Iowa and born in Indiana. Susan Woods 14 yrs old living with them and in Iowa 7 yrs., born in Ohio.
Another source is the Ancestor Outline done by Arminda Spracklin, wife of Charles Edward Spracklin, 1/2 sibling to Amarilla. This was given to me by my Aunt Miriam McDonald, sister to my father Keith.
Page 3 Allgoods
I featured the 3 pages on my blog: Solomon Goss of Fearing Township in Ohio at this link: http://sgossfamily.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/ancestor-outline-by-armindo-spracklin/
I did find an estate or rather a guardianship for a Henry Blacketer in Iowa County! I think this is the older brother.
Henry Blacketer Estate, Iowa Co., Iowa
Henry Blacketer Estate page 2
The Barclays of Pine River 
This comment was made on this blog 4/17/2015 by Phil a descendant of the Blacketers. I am adding it to the correct post so that it may be of help to others.
“In response to your Marengo Iowa research into the Blacketer family, particularly Henry B. Blacketer. I am descended from Henry B. and his wife Mary”Polly” Rush ( born tennesee 1822). Henry volunteered in the 28th Iowa infantry, likely fought at Vicksburg, and died 17 June 1863 of apoplexy. He is buried in the National Cemetery there. Sadly,both of Henry and Polly’s sons(James, not Jarvis as you cite, and Thomas J. were in the same regiment and died of disease. James died 28 Aug 1863 and Thomas died May 19 1864 of typhoid fever. Both of them rest at the National Cemetary at Chalmette Louisiana. Their survivors: Polly and daughter Sarah J. who was about11 yrs old. The probate document you mention is a guardian bond for the “orphan” Sara J Blacketer listing her mother as guardian. This was executed after Mary ‘Polly” married a local widower named Daniel Cripe in 1865. I suppose to pass on her interest in her fathers estate to her . The value of the bond was $600. This is who Mary Cripe is. it is Henry Blacketer’s widow.
Sarah received the money and released her mother as guardian when she married my 2nd great grandfather John Moore of Marengo.
Who is Henry B.? perhaps the B is not his initial. maybe I just picked that up through the geneolgy search. I am of the opinion he is the product of James H. and Susanna Hamilton(marriage cert and his birth day sync up well.Perhaps she died in childbirth with his dad later marrying Phoebe Romine. I have not been able to find evidence of them living in the same dwelling and therefore Phoebe rasing Henry. He may have been raised by the Hamiltons. He did note on census forms being born in Kentucky and he did live in Parke County Indiana before emigtrating to Iowa. There are Hamiltons close by on census forms. I find it interesting the Blacketers end up close by in Iowa and in Indiana. Your Sara Blacketer and my Henry have to be close cousins if not half siblings. Thanks for the pictures form the Marengo courthouse! I hope this helps clear you up. I am very confident of all of my information except who Henry’s parents are(there are a lot of James and Johns out there and hardly ever any evidence of middle names It.. I appreciate your efforts, Every little bit of info helps.”
Comment by Phil This is a recopied comment from the Page about DNA at the top of this blog. If you want to see the original comment go there and you will see my response.