Cynthia Caroline Lewis Blankenship was the mother of six Blankenship children. The family had lived and mig to Texas from MO. Cynthia was married to Hezekiah Blankenship b. ca 1829 TN, died Oct. 1963, Memphis, TN. George Washington b. 1853 Howell, Mo Margaret W. b. 1854 Caleb Augusta or Taylor b. July 1855 Ark. Mary C. b. ca 1857 Martha Clarenda b. Sept. 1857 Linn, MO John Houston b. July 1860 Linn, MO Sincerely, Glenda Mounger Subject: Re: Burial Place of Cynthia Caroline Lewis Blankenship Scates From: [email protected] Date: 9 May 2006 08:49:05 -0600 To: [email protected] 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/UkB.2ACI/4883.2 Message Board Post: Hi ! I have obit for Mrs. S. C. Scates. I found it in the Daily Courier-Gazette in McKinney. It was in a column called M'Kinney 25 Years Ago, dated 18 Feb 1932, pg. 1. Feb 18, 1907 The remains of Mrs. Scates arrived in McKinney today from Nolan County, West Texas, where she died and were buried in the Milligan Cemetery. Eld. John M. McKinney conducted the funeral services. She was 73 years old and formerly lived in the Illinois School-house Community. She was the mother of J.H. Blankenship and W.B. Blankenship, both of McKinney. Milligan Cemetery is listed in the Texas Cemetery Inscription Tombstone Project. -- "If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -- George Bernard Shaw