Still seeking information about Joseph Blankenship and Mary(, parents of Elizabeth Blankenship,b.1763 married to Humphrey Garland. Their daughter Sara married her cousin David Garland, Yancey County,NC. Yancey -Mitchell Co. NC > > Many of the names listed below lived in Buladean, Bakersville,Red Hill > Township, and Harrell Township of Yancey Co.NCS. I have Briggs, Wrights, > and McKinneys connected to there. Other names are Baker, Blevins, > Blankenship, Byrd,Campbell,Davenport,Frye,Garland, > Harrell,Honeycutt,Hughes,Ledford,Pettit,Rose,Stout,Stovall , Street, Webb,and > Wiseman. The Davises, Hills, Greens, and Bennetts were neighbors/friends of my > family from the early 1800s. Some of the people 80 and older have mentioned > that most of the people buried in the Presbyterian cemetary (Buladean)are > of Indian blood. And there are Wilsons buried there. My sister and I have > never lived there, on Roan Mountain; but one time on a visit, just at dawn, > she heard a woman singing the Cherokee morning song. Dorothy Pagano