Hi My line of Blankenship's lived in Lauderdale County. Everything I have found on them show's their name spelled with the 'in' version but my line of their descendants all spell it with the 'en' version. My line was Josiah and Matilda Blankenship(Blankinship). They have a son John W. who is married to Ann. (I have not researched this line) My line is from Richard G. and Martha(Mattie)Stokes Blankenship. Josiah and his son Richard both died in Lauderdale County but I don't know where. Josiah b. 1796 d.abt 1875; Richard G b.1826 d.abt 1881. Barbara C. >From: NANA9ER@aol.com >Reply-To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com >To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [BLANKENSHIP] Things that make you go hmmmm...... >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:00:35 EDT > >In a message dated 10/10/00 4:04:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >pam_from_wv@yahoo.com writes: > ><< > All of the Blankenship's that I know have > been mostly blonde, and I do mean blonde, > except for my cousins with the Cherokee > blood. We are all very fair skinned. > I even moved to another state, and a > lady I work with remarked on the fact > that the only Blankenships that she knows > is blonde. > > Pam > >> >You are right--other than a couple of African American Blankenship >families--all the rest that I know are blonde. I am from a family of blue >eyed blondes. My mother had strong Cherokee features, and had the darker >coloring, but all six of us have my dad's blue eyes and hair that started >out >white and has slowly darkened over the years until now we're all at various >stages of blonde to light honey color. > >We know very little of our Blankenship family. The first we know of was my >GGGrandfather, John C. Blankinship, b. 1825 in Tennessee. He married >Margaret Cannon, b. 1827, in Tennessee. They married in Gibson County, >Tennessee in 1846. We find them on the 1850 census in Gibson County with >two >daughters. Buena Vista, aged 4 and Eliza, aged 3. In 1860, we find >Margaret >still in Gibson County with a daughter, Mandia, aged 13, John, aged 7, and >Albert, aged 3. (Albert is my ggrandfather. We assume that Mandia and >Eliza >are the same person--probably using a middle name at one of the census. We >don't know where John was at this time, and we don't know what happened to >Buena Vista. And, we don't know what happened to Margaret and Eliza >(Mandia) >after that. Our next record is when Albert married Sarah Richardson in >either Haywood or Crockett County. They moved to Lauderdale County where >they raised their family. Both are buried in Lauderdale County. Albert's >brother, John lived in Lauderdale County also. > >We have not been able to place our John with parents. There was a John, >the >same age as ours who was the son of Thomas and Mary McKelvey Blankinship in >Gibson County in the 1850 census, but he was listed with his parents while >our John was listed with his wife and family. Because the two Johns were >the >same age and in the same county, the two have been confused which makes it >even harder to untangle. It has been suggested that the two are the same >person--just counted in both households, but I truly don't think so. > >I don't know when our name went from "in" to "en" I know my grandparents >used >the en spelling, but everything we've found on John was spelled with the >in. > >I sure wish someone could help me figure this one out! > >Dorothy > > >==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== >Check out Walter R. (Ralph) Pyle's Homepage at >http://home.earthlink.net/~wrpyle - BE SURE TO NOTE THIS IS A NEW URL >EFFECTIVE MARCH 2000. > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.