Hello Pat, My name is Regina and I am looking for my great grandfather William Blankenship, My grandma claimed that her father was Cherokee Indian. I am unable to find who his parents were or any siblings. He was born either in 1873 or 1876. I think it was 1876 because I did find him on the 1900 and 1910 census for Bowie co. TX and according to his age and the census year that would have put him being born in 1876. Although on his tomb stone it reads 1873. He died in 1932 in Bradley, AR. Lafayette co. buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery. He was married to Rosa E. Franks. They had at least 13 children some died early in life. Some of the children were born in OK and some in TX and AR. But apparently they moved from TX, AR and OK and LA. They had 4 boys a set of twins that died after a few days of birth that are buried in Walnut hill a son named Charles Delmer Blankenship that died in 1944 in France during WW2 and another son named James Edward Blankenship that married Nettie Cook. There were the girls, Della who married a Ben Bingle, a daughter Rachel who died young, a daughter named Mary do not know much about her she died by 1920 I would say, my grandma only knew of her sister. Another daughter Ellen who married a Rube Worren, a daughter Elizabeth who married a Albert Penny, a daughter Mable who married 1st a Luscious Wyatt and then Elmer Cook. my grandma Thelma Georgia Blankenship, married Earl McConnell, I do not have much info to give me more clues where to look. I just that I would post to see if anyone thought they might have heard of any of my family. Thanks, Regina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia A Torrance" <editor-patter@juno.com> To: <BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [BLANKENSHIP] Blankenship, Jemima > Dear Bill, > > I just don't know where my Blankenship line fits in. My ancestor was > Mary/Polly Blankenship, born in NC ( probably either Burke or Rutherford > Co.) in about 1795. She married James Chambers in Clark County, IN in > 1809. They came to Indiana from Rutherford County, NC with a large > group of settlers. There were other Blankenships in the neighborhood > named James, Isham, William, Lewis (or Lodowick), Josiah and Peter. Any > of these men were of the correct age to be her brothers or cousins. > Other females were Rhoda and Catherine. The biggest problem seems to be > that the names of some of these men are the same as the names of the sons > of Isham, Jr. who was in Rutherford County, NC and moved to Tennessee > with his wife and family in the early 1800s, when these men were living > in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. My ancestor was in Oklahoma in 1838 > where she married Abraham Hilderbrand a soldier stationed at Ft. Gibson, > where the Trail of Tears ended. This makes me suspect a Cherokee > connection, but so far no proof, only circumstantial evidence. There > must be an interesting story here, but I have yet to uncover it! Oh yes, > I live in Illinois, not far from Gilbert Blankenship. > > Pat Torrance > > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== > Checkout the Blankenship webring at www.webring.com and Jacque Reynold's Genealogy Homepage at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/e/y/Jacque-P-Reynolds/index.html - Nice job! >