As we know, Cleburne County was created 6 December 1866. The location of the Blake home (which still exists) and Blake family cemetery was in northern Randolph County prior to that date. I have a letter written to Thomas Blake by son Richard Blake a week before he died. He mentions having measles but assures his father that he is recovering - which, of course, he did not. Richard wrote Corinth, Mississippi, as the heading of the letter. His gravesite is in Okalona.