This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blank, Knernschield, Morrow, Watts, Farris Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XKB.2ACE/746 Message Board Post: 18 August, 1877 William J. Blank, 79, died August 12, 1977 at home in Florissant. He was born January 27, 1898, near Russell- ville, son of John and Frances Watts Blank. Married in 1924, Miss Tracy Knernschield, who survives. He was a grocer in St. Louis, then operated Blank Carp Lake near California. He was a member of the Concord Baptist Church, Jeffer- son City, Missouri. Survived by a son Virgil, St Louis; two sisters, Cora Morrow, Tipton and Ethel Farris, Russellville, 2 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren. Burial in ENLOE Cemetery