----- Original Message ----- From: <Mlnboots@aol.com> To: <tngibson@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 6:16 PM Subject: Blankenship, Raymond > Dear Vicki - You have done a nice job on transcribing the census microfilm. > I have been trying to find where my Great Grandfather Raymond and his wife > Elizabeth Blankenship are buried. I know they lived in Medina, Tennessee and > Raymond owned a Blacksmith shop. A cousin saw the shop still standing in > 1954. On one of the 1860 transcript you show my grandfather James as being > born in Tennessee. He was born around Madison County, Alabama on Christmas > Day in 1847. I don't know if that is much of a correction but according to > my father he was born in Alabama. I must congratulate you volunteers for > what a wonderful job you have done as it has helped me a lot. Raymond had a > total of 8 kids my grandfather being the youngest. Anything you can do to > help me find where he was buried would appreciate it. Raymond's kids were > Amanda Jane who married a Joshua Baker, Martha Ann who married a George W. > Bowles. Can't find them after her marriage so guess they moved out of the > area. Raymond A. who married a Martha Thompson, and I see that the Thompson > were a fairly prominent family in the area. Frances E. who married J.A. > Darr, John M. who married Lucinda Rooks, Elizabeth A. who married a T.P. > Martin, I sent you a Part 2 of this message as I got cut off by AOL. So > hopefully you can piece together what I was writing.about. Had a hard time > trying to find out where I was when cut off. Still haven't found it but this > wasn't destroyed. Thanks a million for you help. - Maude