Simon S. Blake was born in Martinsburg, Bedford (later Blair) Co., Pennsylvania, 29 October 1829, the son of Burdine Blake (1800-1874) and Mazey Ann Simpkins (1794-1867). He married Mary Magdalena Ambrose (1836-1909), the daughter of John Walker Ambrose (1798- 1880) and Salome Kanable (1804-1882), 18 January 1855, in Orion, Wisconsin. They had ten children, two died in infancy. He served in the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry for three years during the Civil War. He died 5 March 1904 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Descendants are scattered throughout the United States.

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