1950-1959, TN, Compiled by James W. Blankenship jkblank1(at)sbcglobal.net
SSDI, http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
, TN, Transcribed by Jim @
Blankenshipweb.com
Blankenshi,
Beecher 19,
16May1931 - 16Jan1951, (VA), TN-414-44-5713
Blankenship, Clarence 43, 30Jun1916
- ??Oct1959, (not specified), TN-410-28-4014
Blankenship, Clovis 50, 12Aug1904
- ??Feb1955, (not specified), TN-414-10-4098
Blankenship, Henry 52, 22Jul1906
- ??Oct1958, (not specified), TN-410-16-8888
Blankenship, Hubert 75, 21Apr1882
- ??Aug1957, (not specified), TN-410-26-2130
Blankenship, John 50, 30Sep1902
- ??Feb1953, (not specified), TN-409-10-4101
Blankenship, John 52, 11Apr1903
- ??Aug1955, (not specified), TN-409-05-3322
Blankenship, Segal 27, 03Mar1927
- ??Dec1954, (not specified), TN-408-38-5092
Blankenship, Tom 46, 08Nov1901
- ??Jan1948, (not specified), TN-414-05-7039
Blankenship, Walter 42, 02Dec1915
- ??Oct1958, (not specified), TN-408-07-5360
Bledsoe Created in Nov 30 1807 from Roane, Indian lands
1953, Bledsoe Co., TN, Obituary
Blankenship, Absolam
Bennett Son of Gilford
Giles Blankenship & Nancy M. Martin
Blankenship, William Hale Son of Gilford Giles Blankenship &
Nancy M. Martin
The Bledsoe
County News:
A. B. BLANKENSHIP died in a Veterans Hospital at Muskogee,
Oklahoma, on October 27 at the age of 80 years and 7 months. He was born in
Bledsoe County, March 26, 1873. He is survived by his wife, one brother, WILL, and two sisters, MRS. FANNY EVANS and
MRS. BETTY DEWEESE. Funeral services were held at
Plain View Baptist Church with Rev. VIVIAN ANGEL officiating. Burial was in Blankenship Cemetery (Bledsoe County)with
Putnam Funeral Home in charge.
From
Pattie Cochran epcochran(at)aol.com
Blount Created in Jul 11 1795 from Knox
Blount Co. Death Records http://www.tngenweb .org/blount/ deaths/deaths. htm
Blankenship, William Harris b.07/15/1947 d.03/05/1951
S/o Ralph Blankenship & Arizona Millsaps,
Cem.,
Pine Grove
From: Diane Renfrow
dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com
Campbell Created in Sep 11 1806 from Anderson, Claiborne
+TN Marriage: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VN4H-9PQ
Blankenship, James R. - Jeffers, Ruby - 16Aug1956, Campbell, TN
Son
of Henry Blankenship & Carrie Douglas
Campbell Co., TN, Will
Book E, Dec 1907 –Nov 1950
http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/wills/willbookE.html
Blankinship, Abraham Lincoln, Page 530-536
Blankinship, Emaline Page 114
From: Diane Renfrow
dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com
Carroll
+1950 Census, Carroll Co., TN, 14Apr1950,
Blankenship, Lida 42,
W, M, M, TN, Head,
Son
of Mance Warren Blankenship & Martha Evelina
Lindsey
Blankenship, Ola R. 45, W, F, M, AR, Wife,
Ola
Roberson
Blankenship, Ema J. 17,
W, F, S, AR, Dau,
Blankenship, Chas D. 10, W, M, S, TN, Son,
Blankenship, Betty J. 05, W, F, S, TN, Dau,
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FSM-LN8V
Carroll
Co., TN, Marriage; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4Y-2PQH
Jimmy Paul Blankenship, 21 [1938] - Maebelle Smothers, 19 [1940] -
21 Jun 1959
Davidson Created in 1783 by Act of North Carolina
Nashville, Davidson Co., TN, Obituary
The
Nashville Banner , 02 Mar 1959
Blankenship, James Alfred Son of Isham Blankenship & Missouri Frances Wheeley
Mrs.
Mattie Weems Barr, 78, Formerly of Nashville, died at her home in Louisville,
Monday Morning. She had been in failing health for a number of years. The body
is at Phillips-Robins Funeral home where services will be conducted at 2 p.m.
Wednesday by R. C. Williams. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Barr
was Born near Lafayette, and received her education
there. She moved to Nashville during her yourh and
made her home here until about 1934. Her First husband was James Alfred Blankenship
who died in February, 1941. She later was married to Oscar Barr of Louisville,
who survives.
Mrs Barr was a member of the Church of Christ. Other survivors
are sex daughters, Mrs. Vernon Overton and Mrs. William Belcher of Nashville,
Mrs. Lloyd Shields, Mrs. Bill Grownwald and Mrs. Joe Mandino of Louisville; three sons, Chesley and Clarance
Blankenship, both of Nashville
and Carl Blankenship of Akron; one stepson Howard Barr and a
stepdaughter, Ruby Barr, both of Nashville; 15 grandchildren and 23
great-grandchildren.
From; Kathy Hensley Cooke repete58(at)alltel.net
Gibson Created in Oct 21 1823 from Indian lands
Gibson Co., TN, White Rose Cem.,
Blankenship, Jarrett Lynn b.31Dec1953, d.31Dec1953, Cert. #2402
From: Diane Renfrow
dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com
Hardin
+Hardin Co., TN, Marriage; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN8P-MHQ
Henderson Donald Blankenship, Jr. - Barbara Jane Shea, - 28 Jun 1958
Son of Henderson
Donald Blankenship & Lillian M. Baird
Henderson Created in Nov 01 1821 from Indian lands
+1951, Lexington, Henderson Co., TN, Obituary
Lexington Progress April 27, 1951
Services for John
Andrew Blankenship, 91, were
conducted Monday afternoon from Oak Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. T.C. Jowers. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery with Pafford in charge.
Mr. Blankenship,
91, died late Friday at his home in the Piney community. He was a native
Henderson Countian and was a member of the Oak Grove
Church.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Luona
Blankenship; six sons, L. L., L. F., E. T., all of Lexington; J.
H. and C. J. of Huron; two daughters,
Girtha Blankenship of Huron and Mrs. Ella Yates of
Lexington. He is also survived by 38 grandchildren 24 great grandchildren.
From: Diane Renfrow
dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com
Henderson Co., TN, Mt.
Ararat Cemetery
http://www.tngenweb.org/records/henderson/cemeteries/mtararat.htm
+Blankenship, Add,
1885-1956 [Adam Lane]
Corinth Cem., Darden, Henderson Co., TN, Burials
http://www.tngenweb.org/records/henderson/cemeteries/corinth.htm
Blankenship, Angela,
1954
Henderson Co., TN, Oak Grove Cemetery,
http://www.tngenweb.org/records/henderson/cemeteries/o-grove.htm
+Blankenship, Laudie F.,
Feb. 11, 1895-July 9, 1959,
"Father" footstone [Claude F.]
+Blankenship,
Flossie B., Feb. 20, 1891-July 9, 1955, "Mother"
footstone next to Walter, G.
+Blankenship,
Walter G., Nov. 19, 1893-July 9, 1958, "Father"
footstone next to Flossie B.
+Blankenship, J.
D., Mar. 1, 1860-Apr. 20, 1951
Blankenship, Luella E., July 9, 1867-Feb.
12, 1929, "His Wife"
+Blankenship, S.
J., Sept. 30, 1864-Jan. 9, 1955, "Mother" "His
Wife" [Sarah Jane Azbill]
Blankenship, C. F., July 19, 1856-Mar. 26,
1918, "Father"
Blankenship, Una Girtha,
Aug. 23, 1890-Mar. 21, 1952
+Blankenship, Wm.
Manuel, 1871-1958
Blankenship, Betsy J., 1878-1968
Houston Created in Jan 21 1871 from Dickson, Humpheys,
Montgomery, Stewart
Erin, Houston Co., TN, Obituary
Bradford, Sarah Jane Dau of Carroll Spencer Bradford & Sebrena Nelson
Blankenship, Augustus Webber
Son of Henry B. Blankenship and
Sarah Ann Mason
“SARAH JANE BRADFORD Mrs Sarah Blankenship , Houston County, Dies at 100. Erin, Tn: Mrs. Sarah Jane Blankenship, Houston County's olderst living
citizen, died yesterday afternoon at the home of a dua,
Mrs Nitie
Steward, Sylvia, Tn, after a short illness. Mrs Blankenship, a native of Dickson County, would have
been 101 years old if she had lived until April 30th. She leaves nearly 200 lineal
descendants.. They include,
five daus, two sons, 37 grandchildren, 118
great-grandchildren, and 34 great great
grandchildren. Mrs Blankenship,
whose home was in the Salmon's Branch communitly of HOuston County, was the widow of Gus Blankenship, a
Confederate Soldier. She was a memember of the
Methodist Church. Her parents were Carroll and Nancy Bailey Bradford. Funeral
services will be at 2pm today at Waynick Cemetery,
near here. In addition to Mrs Stewart, she is
survived by four other daus, Mrs
Ida Tanner, Detroit, Mi. Mrs Minnie Tanner and Mrs Ivie Sinks, both of Erin....Mrs
Lillie Sinks, Waverly Tn..and her sons, Odie and Homie
Blankenship of Erin.”
Sarah Jane
Bradford, b. 30 Apr 1851, Dickson Co; TN, m. 10 Jan 1881, in Dickson Co; TN,
Augustus Webber Blankenship, b. 2 Nov 1839, Todd Co; KY, (son of Henry B.
Blankenship and Sarah Ann Mason) d. 5 Nov 1933, Houston Co; TN, buried: Weyrick Cemetery Houston Co; TN. Sarah died 29 Apr 1952, Houston Co; TN,
buried: Weyrick Cemetery Houston Co; TN.
From;
Gary Bradford cabledirect(at)citlink.net
Knox
+1950 Census,
Knoxville, Knox Co., TN, 08Apr1950
Blankenship, Elijah J. 63, W, M, M, TN, Head,
Son
of Daniel Blankenship & Rachel Chitwood
Blankenship, Anna Lee 61, W, F, M, TN, Wife,
Seamer, Textile Mill,
Anna
Lee Baston
Blankenship, Howard W. 26, W, M, M, TN, Son, cab
driver,
Blankenship, Dorothy 24, W, F, M, TN, DauL,
stenographer,
Continued
on next page.
Blankenship, Howard G. 04, W, M, S, TN, GSon,
Blankenship, Stephen T. 01, W, M, S, TN, GSon,
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FSS-92CG
Macon Created in 1842 from Smith, Sumner
Lafayette, Macon Co., TN
Blankenship, Asa
The Times, March 30, 1951
Transcribed
by Janette West Grimes
Dear Editor:
"Cal's Column" is yielding some rich and interesting materials. Keep a few of those Civil War veterans coming. Perhaps thirty at one time [early nineties] got
their quarterly checks at Eason, on White Oak, where my father was postmaster
and storekeeper and D. H. Knight was blacksmith. Among such old pensioners whom
I heard tell of Stone River, and other battles, were such as Jake B. Bertram
and Asa Blankenship, about whom you ask information.
I am saddened to think that fifty years have left Macon Countians oblivious of such wonderful characters. Jake
Bertram lived on Akersville road about seven miles
north of Lafayette, (TN) just below Underwood church where the road enters from
White Oak by where Jess Knight now lives. (Geographic Coordinates:
36-36-10N/ 85-59-13W). Uncle Jake and Uncle Ace, as we pronounced it, were two
of father's best customers. Asa
Blankenship first lived above
Underwood on the ridge. He had two daughters, Etta and Martha. One married Washy Hale and the other Ed Bray, a distant relative
of mine [son of Harmon Bray, whose place on White Oak the father
purchased---the Booker Freeman store site]. Uncle Asa Blankenship was "the laughingest man in Macon
County" but the glumest if, as seldom happened,
the joke pointed at him. He never missed "first
Monday" or the county fair. His horse was fat and sleek, showing
the pride felt by the owner and the good care and feed provided. Uncle Asa was a man of large frame, big face, ruddy complexion, large features,
long hair, and usually wore a hat like Dick Bray's--showing wear by holes in
the crown, grease on the sides and brim, and turned up edged; but they had
better ones in service.
A story Uncle Asa delighted to relate was about how he once
had all the scrambled eggs he wanted on Christmas morning. "
The girls had been saving eggs for weeks to get the highest price from
the peddler. They had close to two cases they kept in front of the fireplace
during cold weather. On Christmas eve they were uneasy
about the very cold weather and told me to be sure to leave enough wood on the
fire to keep the room warm. Well, when they went off to bed, I just set a half
case out on the porch, and next morning
set them back in a bit farther from the fire then the rest. When I got the fire
started, I called the girls. You better get up and look after these here eggs.
It was awfully cold last night, and I am afraid some of them froze. The girls
got up and while I was getting the fire going in the cook stove, they looked at
the eggs. Sure enough, several dozen of them had froze [n], and I had all the eggs I could eat for
breakfast! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, hahh."
But one cannot realize that this laugh could be heard a quarter mile from the
little store at Eason and that he had smacked his legs like mad all the time.
His laughing continued a good minute, as a rule, and as he got a kick out of
the joke all others laughed, until they stopped to realize Uncle Asa was laughing at them as well as at the
joke. There are old men and women living in Macon today who appreciate just
what I am trying to
tell.
When Uncle Asa moved down a mile below Eason at the
Booker Freeman place,
his girls were soon married. One day, so I was told, he met Ed Bray, one of his
two sons-in-law, alone as on Old Daisy he went to Adam's overshot mill near
Underwood in a deep hollow neat Puncheon Creek. Ed tried to treat him nicely
and simply said, "Hi, Uncle Ace." But the old soldier just looked the
other way and when he heard Ed's salutation, he rolled off his nag and started
throwing rocks. Ed just rolled off his bag of meal in the other side of his
mule and tossed a few back at him. This battle of "Stone Ridge," we
may call it, soon saw Ole Daisy taking off toward the mill down the hill and to
safer atmosphere. Jess Knight married a daughter of Washy Hale, the other
son-in-law. I see Uncle Asa's great-grandson, Webb Freeman Knight,
recently enlisted for military service, and I know the old gentleman would be
mighty proud of him and others like him. So would his great-grandfather Knight,
for Uncle Jesse Knight was a veteran of the Mexican War in the 1840's in Texas
and lived at Eason.
More echoes of Eason at later date.
W. W. Freeman
From: Don Blankenship donblank(at)earthlink.net
Lafayette, Macon Co., TN
Blankenship, Asa
The Times, May 3,
1951; Transcribed by
Janette West Grimes
Dear Cal:
Your paper reveals good echoes from California eastward and even
from the
Land of the Rising Sun. I have even found a cousin right here in Dallas -- one
of your appreciative subscribers. She wrote me a letter, and better still she,
her husband, and son had me for lunch not long ago. Her name is Mrs. C. A.
Stanley, 1305 Coleman, Dallas, Texas. Her primary
interest is among the old-timers. Her grandfather was a brother of mine. She
has a daughter with the telephone company in Dallas, her husband a carpenter,
and her son in oil business of some kind. Not long ago she visited the family
of the late Dr. Pattie East there, in Hartsville and other parts.
Now comes a scribe from Red Boiling and says he knows all the folks
I have mentioned. He may be Cager Archer, whom I met
there some years ago. And talking about old soldiers who traded down at Eason
on White Oak, it should be said that Cager's
grandfather [ I. Meador Pipkin]
lived half a mile or so below Beech Grove schoolhouse [new site where house was
built about 1892-3] and often came in buggy to get his sugar, green coffee,
salt, soda, jeans, calico, shirting, coal oil, and perhaps chewing tobacco at
our store [Bray and Freeman] at Eason during the nineties. With him often came
Wilson ["Booby" or brother, I guess it meant to some child], Cager, Benton, Bratton, Webb, or Bob. Then we could hear Uncle "Ace" Blankenship tell his jokes and laugh if some one was brave enough to bite at the catch he had in
each one. These boys were sons of Silas Archer, who lived near the school
mentioned. I was a pupil there under Crit Woodcock
and Nick Cook, who still lives at Eason where for years he ran the store as
Bray and Cook, after our family left-there in 1901.
[ Editor's note. The Red Boiling Springs writer
mentioned above is Carson
C. Driver.]
Uncle Meador was a cutltured, well-to-do
old gentleman and a very fine citizen. Through his daughter, Florence, these
Archer boys got a valuable heritage. I should mention Crit
Archer too, a girl and the youngest. To reach Eason they came down the " John Hollow," in which Joe Archer's large family
lived before coming to Ellis County, Texas, about 1895. There also lived Tom
Shockley later who had a lathe and made chairs and other furniture from choice
timbers and barks then on every hand. This hollow struck White Oak a quarter
mile up the creek from John A. Driver's home and from White Oak Church, across
on the left bank of the creek in a grove of cedars. Just below the church, and at the ford just above my Uncle John Driver's
home, there was a big spring pouring an abundance of the finest water from the
hills. Uncle John Driver's granddaughter recently also wrote me a letter. She
is Mrs. Lawton [Sammy Cook, daughter of Sam Hayes Cook and Dora Gertrude
Driver] Lane, of Thomasville, Georgia. Her mother is the only living child of
John Driver and Susan Bell Freeman Driver.
Fifty-five years ago one crossed the creek about ten times to get a
mile and a half up to Eason from the John Hollow. First came
Dick Bray's home at the lower end of the first bluff on the left bank. Here was
perhaps the site of the first settlement in Macon County, by Thomas Driver,
wife and two children who came [says Cal] on horseback from Virginia. I was
born there in a two-story log house in 1887 shortly before White Oak church
house was built. My great-grandfather there was Alvin Driver, father of Nancy
Driver Bray. Next up the creek was a small one-room log cabin where various of my relatives have lived.
Back of this, up on the ridge toward Long Fork, was Old Beech Grove
schoolhouse, where in 1891 I had a month of school under John Profitt*, and came to know the older children of the
Archers, Celsors, Drivers, Scotts, Hoarks, and others. Here was the community center of the
post-bellum days, if not earlier. There scores "got religion," as it
was called, and two preachers were W. L. Buie and
perhaps Brother Sailings. Here also came Eph Rogers,
Harrison Carter [from Lafayette] and perhaps Reneau,
Lovelady, Wallace, and others of the time to preach the gospel of "the one
book." There my grandfather and several children embraced the
"Christian" faith, then nicknamed Campbelites,
though Mulkey, Stone, and others antedated the Campbells [who came from Scotland in 1807] by ten years or
more in rejecting all creeds but the Bible. That old building burned one night
[probably set by bad boys out hunting], and so the new location was near Silas
Archer's home half a mile further over. I reached it by leaving the creek road
at Asa Blankenship's home at the Booker Freeman store location,
though Uncle Harmon Bray then lived there.
Next up the creek was the home of Rile Driver, another old veteran,
who lived on a bluff over-looking the creek. He got water in a bucket let down
on a wire to another of those springs of fine water that gushed from the
hillside. He drew the bucket back up by use of a windless. Uncle Rile's land ran back north up a hill on which some very
early settlements were made and some graves were then to be seen, perhaps some
of the family of the early Drivers there.
Next was the old home place of Harmon Bray, whose widowed mother [Julina]
Booker Freeman had married about the time he ran a store there. This is the
place Asa Blankenship moved to from the ridge home above
Underwood. It is said that he kept his money in gold placed in glass jars in a
hole under a large rock on his hearth. The secret was out when he moved the
others took over. Down on the creek he invited my brother, Wick C., and me to
stay all night with him about 1900. A friendlier neighbor, especially in
Illness, was hardly to be found. If Uncle "Ace" liked you, he liked you; otherwise, he
just kept his distance and kept his mouth shut. He called us to the table for
supper, and across our plates lay a slice of juicy ham, fried perfectly, that
hardly left room enough for the red gravy, fried potatoes, and the big biscuits
he made! We fared sumptiously, for one day at least.
I recall that he cut the second ham -- for in the first one he found
"skippers," as they were called.
Up, stairs hung much clothing and bed clothing, and on exposed logs
here and there we saw loose change, good coin of the realm! Of course we did
not touch it or mention it, for we had been brought up to let things alone and
to keep our hands off what belonged to other people. Many people regarded Uncle Asa as a miser, and his thrift tended in that direction. During the
[Civil] war he had been shot through both legs near the knees. Like Uncle Jesse
Talmon, he drew a pension for life from the federal
government as a result -- but Uncle Jesse, grandfather of Elmer East, a
playmate of mine
whose father was our Doctor East, walked on his knees for life. He wore
sheepskin pads on his knees, such as I later wore in the Texas cotton patches. Uncle Asa is supposed to have buried most of his money about his premises,
but I never heard that any of it was found.
One fall he came from Lafayette county fair early and came into the
Eason store. "How is the fair, Uncle Ace?"
"Fine, but I tell you them that goes there tomorrow will have to keep
their eyes open." "Why?" -- So they can see! Ha,
ha, ha, ha!" This is Uncle Asa Blankenship, the [Civil War] veteran of several battles, and a mighty fine
neighbor to us.
W.
W. FREEMAN
Transcriber Note: Unsure of Spelling .it looks as though there was a typing
error on this name.
From: Don Blankenship donblank(at)earthlink.net
+Macon Co., TN, Underwood Cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105494202
Blankenship, Vadie [Doss], 25Feb1886, 20Jan1957,
W/o Neal Blankenship (1886 - 1980)
From: Diane Renfrow
dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com
McMinn Created in 1819 from Indian lands
McMinn Co. TN, Death
Blankenship, John Lafayette d.23May1955, Cert. #10746
From: Diane Renfrow
dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com
Monroe
+Monroe
Co., TN, Marriage; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN66-D5W
Charles William Blankenship, - Blanche Kathleen Ashe, - 07Sep1957
Son of Roy E. Blankenship & Prudie Mae Watson
Morgan
+Morgan Co., TN,
Marriage; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5HV-PYQ
Georgia Blankenship, 25 [1928] - Leonard Carl Northrup, 30 [1923] - 16 May 1953
Rutherford
+1959, Rutherford Co., TN, Obituary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37089279/charles-stacy-blankenship
Charles
"Charlie" Stacy Blankenship (1877-1959) was the son of James Preston "Jerry' Blankenship and Francis
Elizabeth "Bettie" Simpson Blankenship.
Charlie's
parents valued education; consequently, Charlie was sent to Milton, Tennessee
to attend the Brantly Academy. Research indicates
that this was a private college prep school run by Reverend Edward Theodore Brantly on the Brantly Farm in
Milton. In order to attend the school, Charlie lived in the home of William
McKnight Byrns. He worked at Brown's flour mill.
While he was in Milton, Charlie met and married
Ina
Burns in Dec of 1899. Ina
died in April of 1900, a month after giving birth to son, William
Preston Blankenship. William's
middle name was given in honor of his paternal
grandfather, James Preston
Blankenship. Baby William
passed away May 19, 1900, a month after his mother's death. Mother and son are
both buried in the Milton Cemetery. After the death of his wife Charlie moved
back to his parents farm in Cainsville.
Census documents show him living in his parents
home on June 16, 1900.
When Charlie
returned to Wilson County, he married
his childhood sweetheart, Minnie Bell Cason on Nov 18, 1900. The wedding ceremony was held at the
brides home in Simmons Bluff, Wilson County, TN. Brother Dan Vance, pastor of
the Baptist Church, performed the ceremony.
In 1909 the
state of Tennessee passed a General Education Bill for the founding of a state
normal school (i.e. teacher's college) in Murfreesboro. The promise of advanced
educational opportunities for their children prompted Charlie and Minnie to
move to Murfreesboro from Cainsville around 1910. The
family's first home was a house on North Maple Street. They lived there for a
year before moving to a farm.
As promised,
Middle Tennessee State Normal School (MTSNS now MTSU) opened its doors on Sept
11, 1911. In Oct of the same year Charlie paid $7,000 for 100+ acres of
farmland on Midland Road, approximately three miles from town. Later, in 1920
the family purchased a farm on Salem Road for $28,000. As a result of their
move, MTSU, became the school of choice for most of
the Blankenship children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and 2x great
grandchildren. Son, Charles Blankenship chose to go to school at UT in
Knoxville but he was the exception to the rule.
In Sept of 1918,
at age 40, Charlie signed up for the draft as required by law. The draft
registration papers describe him as being tall with a slender build, grey eyes
and black hair. He was also listed as a farmer with his own farm on Rt. 6.
Charlie worked
as a farmer and livestock dealer. He and Minnie attended First Baptist Church
on East Main. They were music lovers, strong believers in the value of
education, and they were active members of the community.
Charlie and
Minnie had seven children. The children (in order of birth) were:
Carl Stacy
Blankenship (1901-1991)
Mary
Elizabeth Blankenship Smotherman (1904-2001)
Rebecca Loudelia Blankenship Smith (1909-1947)
Daisy Bell
Blankenship Williams
(1911-1975)
Charles
William Blankenship
(1915-2002)
John Edwin
Blankenship (1917-1996)
Minnie
Catherine Blankenship
(1920-2014)
Shelby
Memphis, Shelby Co., TN, Memphis Nat. Cem., Burial
3568 TOWNES AVE. , Zip 38122 TX
(901) 386-8311
Blankenship, America b. 10/30/1905, DOD 10/01/1952, Sec. E # 14116
Wife of Blankenship, Will Pvt USA
From: Don
Blankenship donblank(at)earthlink.net
Sumner
Tennessee, State
Marriage Index, 1780-2002: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VNZV-QT5
Blankenship, Carl
Gene Coker, Kathleen 02
May 1959, Sumner, TN
Warren
+Warren Co., TN, Marriage; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHQ-XFCV
Bobbie Dean Blankenship, 20 [1938] - Willard Dean Freeze, 22 [1936] - 12Dec1958
D/o Mrs. Miller
Blankenship
+1953, McMinnville, Warren
Co., TN, Obituary
Southern Standard, McMinnville,
TN. Thursday, Dec
17, 1953, p. 1.
Funeral services for Monty Gene Blankenship, 21-year-old Army private who
died as a result of a blood clot suffered while on duty at Camp Gordon, Ga.,Thursday morning, were
conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Magness
Memorial Baptist Church. Rev. Fred C. Parker and Rev. H. Curtis Erwin
officiated and burial was in Mt. View cemetery. The death of Pvt. Blankenship was announced
Thursday by Brig. Gen. Charles C. Blanchard, commanding general of Camp Gordon,
where the soldier was a student at the Signal Corps Replacement Training
Center. He had not been ill prior to his death and relatives said he had been
in excellent health when he entered the service in May. The body was returned here and arrived at Tullahoma at 3
a.m. Saturday.
A native of McMinnville, Pvt. Blankenship was born
December 2, 1932. He was a son of Joe and Grace Eldridge
Blankenship and he was educated in the public schools of McMinnville, graduating
from Center High School in the class of 1953.
He volunteered for Army service prior to the conclusion of his high
school career and entered the service shortly after graduation. Pvt. Blankenship received basic
training at Fort Jackson, S.C. and was assigned to the Signal Corp’s
communications school at Camp Gordon at the completion of his basic
period. He was a member of Magness Memorial Baptist Church. The 21-year-old soldier was the second son of Mr.
and Mrs. Blankenship to die while on
military duty. Another son, Lt. William D. Blankeship, U.S. Air Force , was
killed in action over Europe December 11, 1944.
Besides his parents, Monty is survived by two brothers, Jimmy and Dick Blankenship, McMinnville;
three sisters, Mrs. Robert Tarr, Misses Betty Jo and Linda Sue Blankenship, McMinnville. Arrangements were by High Funeral Home.
Contributor: Maxine Reggio,
Bethany, OK, 2000
From Patty Cochran epcochran(at)aol.com
Washington
Johnson City
, Washington Co., TN, Mountain Home Nat.
Cem., Burial
P.O. Box 8 VA
Medical Center Zip 37684 TX (423) 979-3535
Blankenship, Joseph M. b. 07/22/1884, DOD 07/28/1958, Sec. S R-4 #5
From: Don
Blankenship donblank(at)earthlink.net
Jonesborough, Washington Co., TN, Vincent Methodist Cem., Burials
Located at 877 Mayberry Rd.,.
Blankenship, Josiephine C. 1892 - 1957 [spouse William C.]
Williamson
+1957, Franklin,
Williamson Co., TN, Obituary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99396899/willie-jane-blankenship
Mrs. Bennett H.
Blankenship, 49, died yesterday morning at her home,
320 third ave, S, after a long illness. Mrs.
Blankenship, the former Miss Willie Jane Inman, was a native of Williamson
County, daughter of Mrs Annie Givens Inman of
Franklin and the late John T. Inman.
She had been
cashier at Franklin theater 14 years. She was a member
of the Methodist church.
Besides her
husband and mother, she is survived by two sons, Cordell Blankenship, Marshall, Wisc.,
and Edgar Lee Blankenship,
Nashville, and Robert Inman Franklin and one grandson.
Funeral
services will be at 2;30 pm, today at the Franklin
Memorial Chapel, the Rev. J. E. Wolfe officiating, Burial will be in Mount Hope
cemetery.
From
Janice Duncan