In respone to Joe Trainer, Daniel and John Blankenship are interesting folks having gotten married the very same day in 1802 in Kanawha County, WV. Mike Blankenship's research on Richard Blankenship which I have a copy of lists John as a son of Richard who left a will in Ohio. The will named only one son. Mike speculated with me that Daniel may have also been a son of this Richard. I don't have the details but I agree that Daniel and John could have been brothers. Another interesting connection is that Lewis Blankenship of Indiana gave a deposition in Greenup County, KY court in 1823, the same year that Daniel and John were involved in a criminal suit there. The reference to the deposition is a mere mention in Julia Gougler's B. Records. Pat Torrence, with whom I have shared many useful and significant exchanges related to the Blankenships and Chamgbers of SE Indiana, found a reference to the suit involving Daniel and John in Greenup County, Kentucky during a visit there. Unfortunately, I have misplaced that email message. I have asked her if she still has the record. It seems very likely that Lewis was connected to Daniel and John. Perhaps Mike Blankenship can shed light on Daniel and John. Daniel was born 1771 to 1775 according to census records. That would make him a rough contemporary of Lewis Blankenship, Sr. who appears for a brief time in Jefferson County, Indiana. He and wife Mary sold land there about 1812 to James Blankenship. In the deed he is styled, "Lewis Blankenship, SR." My ancestor is Reverend Isaiah Blankenship who married Mary Chambers in 1799 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. He is referred to in several Indiana records as Reverend Isom and Isham Blankenship. One record actually names him as Isham and he signs the record as Isaiah. He may have been the brother of James Blankenship (b. 1773) whose wife was Alis (I believe Chitwood of the Rutherford County, NC Chitwoods; probably daughter of the Tory Captain James Chitwood and his wife Alis) who was granted the land by Lewis Blankenship. Reverend Isaiah Blankenship was among the first to purchase a lot in the town of Vernon, Indiana where he was a neighbor of Evan Thomas -- this Evan Thomas being either the father or brother of Hannah Thomas who married Lewis Blankenship, Jr. As Pat Torrence points out in another message, Reverend Isaiah Blankenship had among other children a son named Perry Magnus Blankenship (b. 1811) who was a civil war hero, builder of the Morgan County, Indiana Courthouse in Martinsville, Indiana and for several terms a member of the Indiana General Assembly. Perry was also a minister but of the Campbellite persuasion rather than the Baptist Church as was his father. Another brother, Reverend James Blankenship was also a Campbellite preacher and when he died in 1869 was the minister of the Gosport Christian Church in Owen County, IN. Isaiah's daughter, Elizabeth Blankenship, married my ancestor Reverend Chesley Woodward who was a Baptist Minister until his death in 1877 in Missouri. Also in the neighborhood with Lewis, SR., James Blankenship (b. 1773) and Isaiah (b. 1777) was Reverend William Blankenship (b. 1789, NC) who married (1) Isaiah's wife's first cousin Betsey Chambers. He married (2) Polly Whitsett whose family were with the Woodwards in Montgomery County, KY. Reverend William Blankenship left a will in Vermillion County, Illinois where he died. I have a file of information from descendants. He spent most of his active ministry in the same neighborhood as Reverend Isaiah Blankenship -- even serving some of the same rural churches of the Coffee Creek association. Pat's ancestor is Mary Blankenship who married James Chambers in 1809. James was the brother of Reverend Isaiah Blankenship's wife, Polly. Mary's son, Alexander Chambers, wrote a letter to William Chambers which he printed in his book, The Chambers Family, Trail of the Centuries. In this letter, Alexander said that his mother was the aunt of Rhoda Blankenship who married Avery Chambers (brother of Betsey Chambers who married Reverend William Blankenship). This Rhoda Blankenship was the daughter of James and Alis Blankenship (James b. 1773). So this letter establishes that James Blankenship and Mary Blankenship Chambers were brother and sister. Reverend Isaiah Blankenship also had a daughter Rhoda Blankenship. The name was passed on among the Woodwards. Reverend Chesley Woodward named a daughter Rhoda Blankenship Woodward. He also had a daughter named Margaret Stockton Woodward; I have not determined why this name was chosen. But, the Stocktons, Chambers and Blankenships were close neighbors in Rutherford and Burke Counties. I have a large collection of electronic data on these families in a PDF file. If anyone is interested, please contact me. We have been unable to tie these together as a family: James, Reverend Isaiah, Lewis, SR., Reverend William and Mary. They may have been from the family of the Lodowick Blankenship who is listed on the 1790 Burke County, NC census. Lodowick and Isaiah's Chambers in-laws were all listed in the Morgan District that included parts of both Rutherford and Burke Counties. Isaiah later paid taxes in Burke County and his father-in-law, John Chambers, sold land in Rutherford -- with the deed calling him a resident of Burke County, NC. James and Lewis are listed together on the 1799 and 1800 tax lists of Woodford County, Kentucky and the later move to Jefferson County, Indiana but apparently after Isaiah. Best. Larry Prather in Middletown, Maryland In a message dated 10-07-2000 9:02:14 PM, you wrote: >Do you have any information on the Blankenships from Carter County. Looking >for the parents of Daniel Blankenship who married Sarah Rankins in Kanawha >County now West Virginia Abt, 1802. He had a brother named John. One of his >sons was Johnson Blankenship who migrated to Phillips County, Arkansas. > >Joe Trainer