----- Original Message ----- From: <Mlnboots@aol.com> To: <Tngibson@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 6:13 PM Subject: Blankenship, Raymond > Dear Vicki - I started an email to you and dear AOL cut me off before I could > finish. I don't know if it will get to you but will try and finish what I > was asking you about Raymond Blankenship my great grandfather. > Congratulations on a fine job you volunteers have done. I had finished up > telling you that Raymond's 7th child Mary P. married Joseph Thompson, can't > find them so figured they moved out of the area. My grandfather Raymond > married a Frances Hollingsworh and had 5 boys by this marriage. She must have > passed a way there around either Medina or I know James was in 1890 Paris, > Texas where he married Julia Miranda Bell (her first marriage name) and she > had one son my Uncle Porter, my dad Hubert Arnold comes from the third > marriage to a Mary Ollie Berry. My email address is mlnboots@aol.com The > second letter is a small L not an i as so many people tend to mistake it for. > I made a mistake on spelling of T.P. Martin's name had put a g on the end > and was trying to correct it when AOL cut me off. Anything you can do to > help please send me a message. Also would you thank the other volunteers as > I have found out a lot about Gibson County since finding this site. Also let > me know if you get part I of the this message. - Maude Louise (Blankinship) > Norris. Oh yeah my grandfather changed the spelling when he went out on his > own from en to in. The story is he got tired of getting other Blankenship > mail that were in and around the area. I know Raymond lived in District 2 > the whole time he lived there. John was in District 11 and thats about it. - > Maude