Jack,
Another sister of the Blake brothers who served in the Confederate Army was Mora Blake Harlan. She was my great grandmother. Her husband Samuel W. Harlan served in Co. F 22nd Alabama as did four of the five the Blake brothers; one who served in a different Regiment. As you corrected stated, only two of the five Blake brothers who served in the War survived. Mora Blake Harlan and Samuel W. Harlan are buried at Blake's Family Cemetery in Cleburne County.

You mentioned that Celia Blake was married first to Henry Howle who died in Virginia during the War. That is correct. Henry Howle was my great-great uncle, a brother of my great grandfather Mack Goode Howle. Five Howle brothers served in the Confederate Army. Three survived. They did not live in Benton/Calhoun/Cleburne. They lived in northern Randolph County which became Cleburne in Dec 1866 when Cleburne was created. After the War, Celia married second to a Hilton and later lived in Oxford.
Lynda Lowery