Colleen, Please contact Nancy Cheesbrough, last known email address: leechees@email.msn.com. She sent me an email last Dec about researching Henry and Mary Blanchard of Outagamie and Winnebago Cos., WI I am quoting your post to BLANCHARD-L here for Nancy in case she is not subscribed to the list and didn't see it. > Subject: BLANCHARD, Henry W. (Wisconsin) > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:26:31 EDT > From: CSchr84651@aol.com > To: BLANCHARD-L@rootsweb.com > Looking for the father of Henry W. BLANCHARD b. 1849, Dane Co., > Wisconsin. His mother was Minerva (STRONG) BLANCHARD born in > upstate NY abt. 1827. The 1850 census for Dane County, Town of > Dunkirk, shows: > Otis BLANCHARD 23 b. NY > M.A. 18 b. VT > Sarah 60 b. CT > Minerva 23 b. NY > Henry W. 1 b. WI > Sarah 18 b. NY > From this I figure that Minerva was married to Otis's brother. > When her husband died, Minerva went to live with his brother > for awhile. The 1850 Mortality Index for Wisconsin shows a > C.B. BLANCHARD Dane Co. age 27 died Apr Consumption from NY > There was a Charles BLANCHARD who owned land in Dane Co just > prior to 1850 Henry W. BLANCHARD went on to marry Mary Clara > HAAS on Dec 3, 1871. They had the following children in > Neenah, Wis.: > Otis > Ora > Olive > Orpha > Ophelia > Osca > Note the children's names all starting with "O". > Any help will be appreciated. > Colleen > Mesa, AZ As a side note, my great grandmother was Orpha M. Blanchard, born in 1845 in Morrisonville, Clinton Co., NY. She had an older half-brother, Marcello (Marcellus?) Blanchard who was born in VT in 1820/25 (according to Pat B. Curry's notes which she sent me in 1997). Both Orpha and Marcello lived in Fond du Lac Co., WI, in 1868, Orpha with her husband Seth F. Richardson. The Richardson children were born in WI and later the family moved to MN. I do not have any more info on Marcello. Tom Wilde Chesapeake, Virginia