Dear Regina, Some of my Blankenship family line went to Texas also. I don't know the year, but Blankenship researchers that I share information with have talked about a Texas line. You have a lot of information and I'm sure you'll be able to make more connections. The toughest part seems to be to tie the Blankenships with a Cherokee tradition to the main branch in Virginia. I suggest that at some point these men had multiple families by different women, perhaps not married in the traditional sense. I know it goes against the grain with some people, but it offers an explanation. Polygamy was practiced in North Carolina and Tennessee in the late 1700s and early 1800s before it was outlawed. I have read quite a lot of history of this era and believe this possibility should be considered. In my line the Blankenships married into the Chambers family again and again. In the Chambers family there is definitely Cherokee blood and they were in Arkansas in the early 1800s with the "Old Settlers." Bob Blankenship lives on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina and has written several books on the census rolls. It would be interesting to know which of the known Blankenship men is the Patriarch of his family. Good luck and keep searching, Pat Torrance