This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1169.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Kathleen. The origins and anything about the Blankenships are a mystery to us. Charles M. Sharpe, my grandfather, had been a Christian [Disciples] minister in Abilene and Lawrence, Kansas just prior to his marriage to Rose. His was acquainted with Dean Evereat, pastor of the Christian [Disciples] Church of Hutchinson.