BLANKENSHIP ANNEX
Maria Lana (Blankenship) Drake
Pedigree
(Start at generation 1, below.)
WORKING DRAFT
Last Change: 1 February 2026
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Origin of
the surname “Blankenship:”
Generation
6
5 James Blankenship
"Jimmy"
1. Biographical notes:
Born about 1818 in Tazewell
County, Virginia. Appears to have died before
1900.
1850 US Census: Jas
Blankenship, age 32 (b. VA) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household
in Jeffersonville Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. He could not read or write. No record of owning real or personal property. The household also included his wife, Nancy
Blankenship, age 25 (b. VA), who could not read or write; daughter, Hannah
Blankenship, age 6 (b. VA); son, Saml Blankenship,
age 4 (b. VA); daughter, Saly Blankenship, age 2 (b.
VA); Betsy Seers, age 18 (b. VA); and William Seers, age 21 (b. VA) and
employed as a farmer, who could not read or write.
1860 US Census: James Bankenshy, age 35 (b. NC) and employed as a farmer, was
heading a household in Smyth County (7 Mile Ford Post Office), Virginia. He could not read or write. No record of owning real or personal
property. The household also included
his wife, Nancy Bankenshy, age 33 (b. NC), who could
not read or write; daughter, Hannah Bankenshy, age 14
(b. NC); son, Samuel P. Bankenshy, age 12 (b. VA);
daughter, Sally J. Bankenshy, age 10 (b. VA); son,
William J. Bankenshy, age 8 (b. VA); son, Joseph Bankehshy, age 5 (b. VA); son, Thomas Bankenshy,
age 2 (b. VA); and Susan Williams, age 70 (b. TN), who could not read or write.
1870 US Census: James
Blankenship, age 49 (b. NC) and employed as a farm laborer, was heading a household
in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. The household also included his wife, Nancy
Blankenship, age 47 (b. NC); daughter, Hannah Blankenship, age 27 (b. NC); son,
William J. Blankenship, age 17 (b. VA) and employed as a farm laborer; son,
Joseph Blankenship, age 14 (b. VA) and employed as a farm laborer; son, Thomas
Blankenship, age 11 (b. VA) and employed as a farm laborer; and son, David
Blankenship, age 9 (b. VA).
1880 US Census: James Blankenship,
age 57 (b. VA; parents b. VA) and employed as a laborer, was heading a
household in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. The household also included his wife, Nancy
Blankenship, age 55 (b. VA; parents b. VA); daughter, Hannah Blankenship, age
34 (b. VA); son, Thomas Blankenship, age 20 (b. VA); son, David Blankenship,
age 18 (b. VA); grandson, William Blankenship, age 8 (b. VA); and grandson,
Oscar Blankenship, age 1 (b. VA).
2. Wife: Nancy/Sallie Caldwell
Born about 1825 in Tazewell
County, Virginia. Married James Blankenship
about 1843 in Tazewell County, Virginia.
Appears to have died before 1900.
3. Children:
a. Hannah Blankenship: Born about 1846 in Virginia.
b. Samuel "Sam"
Patton Blankenship: Born December 1848/46 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Died 6 April 1934 from
complications of heart disease in Stephenson Township, Wyoming County, West
Virginia.
1870 US Census: S. P.
Blankenship, age 23 (b. VA) and employed as a farm laborer, was heading a
household in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. The household also included his wife, Hannah
Blankenship, age 19 (b. VA); son, James Blankenship, age 8 months (b. VA); and domestic servant, Fannie Johnston, age 22 (b. VA).
1880 US Census: Samuel
Blankenship, age 32 (b. VA; parents b. NC) and employed as a farm laborer, was
heading a household in Elk Garden Township, Russell County, Virginia. The household also included his wife, Emiline Blankenship, age 27 (b. NC; parents b. NC); son,
James H. Blankenship, age 10 (b. NC) and employed as a farm hand; daughter,
Jesse E. Blankenship, age 6 (b. NC); son, Stephen E. Blankenship, age 4 (b.
VA); daughter, Sarah N. Blankenship, age 2 (b. VA); and boarder, Harriet
Watson, age 19 (b. NC) and single, with no record of employment.
1900 US Census: Samuel Blankinship, age 51 (b. Dec 1848 in VA; father b. VA;
mother b. NC) and employed in the lumber manufacturing industry, was heading a
household in Jeffersonville Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. The household also included his wife of 32
years, Emaline Blankinship,
age 47 (b. Jun 1852 in NC; parents b. NC), who had had 12 children, 9 of whom
were still alive; son, Floyd T. Blankinship, age 17
(b. Apr 1883 in VA), single, and employed as a day laborer; son, Archie Blankinship, age 13 (b. Jul 1886 in VA), single, and
employed as a day laborer; son, Samuel P. Blankinship,
age 12 (b. Mar 1888 in VA) and in school; son, Benjamin H. Blankinship,
age 10 (b. Apr 1890 in VA); son, Charles P. Blankinship,
age 8 (b. Apr 1892 in VA); and mother-in-law, Sallie Wyatt, age 77 (b. Apr 1823
in NC; parents b. NC) and widowed, who had had 7 children, 5 of whom were still
alive. Of interest, the household headed
by Samuel's brother-in-law, James W. Taylor, age 23, was enumerated directly after
him on the same census page.
Samuel P. Blankenship married Emeline "Hannah" Myrtle Wyatt (b. abt 1851 in
Ashe Co., NC), daughter of James Henry/Harvey and Sarah "Sallie"
(Caldwell) Wyatt, on 6 April 1867 in Alleghany County, North Carolina and had
the following children:
(1. James Blankenship: Born
1869 in Virginia.
(2. Jesse E.
Blankenship: Born about 1874 in North Carolina.
(3. Stephen
E. Blankenship: Born about 1876 in
Virginia.
(4. Sarah Nannie Bell Blankenship: Born 19 January 1877 in Paint Lick
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
(5. Floyd T.
Blankenship: Born April 1883 in Virginia.
(6. Archie
Thomas Blankenship: Born 24 July 1886 in Richlands
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. Died 5 October 1948, age 60 years, 2 months, and 12 days, in
Wyoming County, West Virginia.
1930 US
Census: Archie T. Blankenship, age 41 (b. VA; father b. VA; mother b. NC) and
employed as a coal miner, was heading a household in Kanawha Township, Fayette
County, Texas. He married 1st at age
16. The household also included his
wife, Pearl Blankenship, age 48 (b. VA; father b. NC; mother b. VA), who
married 1st at age 23; daughter, Emma Blankenship, age 19 (b. VA), single, and
not employed; son, Marvin Blankenship, age 17 (b. VA), single, and not
employed; daughter, Ruby Blankenship, age 11 (b. VA); son, Austin Blankenship,
age 7 (b. VA); and boarder, Jim Cresto, age 31 (b.
Italy; parents b. Italy), married, and employed as a coal miner, who immigrated
to the US in 1913 and married 1st at age 28.
1940 US
Census: Archie T. Blankenship, age 51 (b. VA) and employed as a tipple man in
the mining industry, was heading a household at Stephenson, Barker's Ridge
Township, Wyoming County, West Virginia.
He had completed 4 years of high school.
The household also included his wife, Pearl Blankenship, 57 (b. VA), who
had no formal schooling; son, Marvin Blankenship, age 27 (b. VA), single, and
employed as a track man in the mining industry, who had completed 7th grade;
and son, Austin Blankenship, age 17 (b. VA), single, and employed as a helper
in a store, who had completed 8th grade.
On 1 April 1935 they resided in the same township.
Archie
Blankenship married Iona Pearl Hill "Pearl" (b. 5 May 1882 in
Tazewell Co., VA, d. 16 Mar 1963 in Princeton Twp, Mercer Co., WV), daughter of
Andrew "Andy" Jackson and Eliza "Liza" Ann (Franklin) Hill,
and had the following children:
(a. Emma Blankenship: Born about 1911 in Virginia.
(b. Marvin Blankenship: Born about 1913 in Virginia.
(c. Ruby
Blankenship: Born about 1919 in Virginia.
(d. Austin Benjamin Blankenship: Born about 1923 in
Virginia. Married Georgia Anna Rash (b.
1924 in WV, d. 2001 in Madison Co., IN).
(7. Samuel
Patton Blankenship, II: Born 13 March 1888 in Richlands
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
Died 24 June 1946, age 52, in Boissevain
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
1918 WWI
Draft Registration: Samuel Patton Blankenship, age 40 (no birth date provided)
and employed as a coal miner, resided with his wife, Helen Baily
Blankenship, at Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia.
1920 US
Census: Sam Blankenship, age 36 (b. VA; parents b. VA) and employed as a coal
mine, was heading a household in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County,
Virginia. The household also included
his wife, Helen Blankenship, age 23 (b. VA; parents b. VA); son, John
Blankenship, age 6 years and 11 months (b. VA); daughter, Alberta Blankenship,
age 5 years and 4 months (b. VA); daughter, Mary H. Blankenship, age 3 years
and 11 months (b. VA); and daughter, Ruby Blankenship, age 1 year and 3 months
(b. VA). Of interest, the household
headed by his uncle, David Blankenship, age 58, was enumerated after him on the
same census page.
Samuel P.
Blankenship, II married Lorena Hopkins (b. 15 Jul 1894 in Tazewell Co., VA, d. 25 Aug 1964 in Wilmington Twp, New Castle Co., DE).
(8. Benjamin
H. Blankenship: Born April 1890 in Virginia.
(9. Charles
P. Blankenship: Born April 1892 in Virginia.
c. Sarah "Sally" J./M. Blankenship: Born about 1848 in Pike County,
Kentucky. Died 10 September 1888, age 40
in Tazewell County, Virginia from complications of typhus fever.
1900 US Census: James W.
Taylor, age 23 (b. Jan 1877 in NC; parents b. NC) and employed as a day laborer,
was heading a household in Jeffersonville Township, Tazewell County,
Virginia. The household also included
his wife of 7 years, Sarah B. Taylor, age 25 (b. Mar 1875 in VA; parents b.
NC), who had had 2 children, 1 of whom was still alive; and daughter, Mary E.
Taylor, age 5 (b. Apr 1895 in VA; father b. NC; mother b. VA).
At age 17 Sarah Blankenship married
(1st) James W. Coldwell (b. abt 1845 in Ashe Co., NC) on 17 October 1867 in Tazewell
County, Virginia and had the following children:
(1. Margaret
"Maggie" Taylor: Born about 1896 in Virginia.
(2. Georgia Taylor: Born about
1901 in Virginia.
(3. Howard S. Taylor: Born
about 1905 in Virginia.
(4. James Taylor: Born about
1908 in Virginia.
Sarah (Blankenship) Taylor married (2nd)
(?) Caldwell.
d. William Jasper Blankenship: Born about 1852 in
Virginia. Last clear record found in
1870, when William was age 17 and resided with his parents in Maiden Spring
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
Perhaps died young, after marrying about 1871 and having the following
children:
(1. William Blankenship: Born
abt 1872 in Virginia. Perhaps orphaned
as a child; in 1880 resided (without parents) with his grandparents, James and
Nancy Blankenship, in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
1900 US Census: William
Blankenship, age 27 (b. 1873 in VA; parents b. VA) and employed as a farm
laborer, was heading a household in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County,
Virginia. The household also included
his wife of 7 years, Nancy Blankenship, age 26 (b. 1874 in VA; parents b. VA),
who had had 1 child, still alive; and daughter, Mary S. Blankenship, age 1 (b.
Oct 1898 in VA). Of interest, the
household headed by his uncle, David Blankenship, age 38, who was enumerated before him on the same census page.
William P. Blankenship married
Nancy (?) (b. abt 1868 in VA) about 1893 and had at
least the following daughter:
(a.
Mary S. Blankenship: Born October 1898 in Virginia.
(2. Oscar Blankenship: Born
about 1879 in Virginia. Perhaps orphaned
as a child, since in 1880
1880 US Census: Oscar Blankenship,
age 1 (b. VA), resided (without parents) with his grandparents, James and Nancy
Blankenship, in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
1900 US Census: Of possible
interest (since the dates don't match those in the 1880 Census), Oscar
Blankenship, age 18 (b. 1882 in VA; parents b. VA), single, and employed as a
farm laborer, resided in the household headed by his uncle, David Blankenship
(son of James and Nancy), age 38, in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County,
Virginia.
1910 US
Census: Of possible interest, an Oscar Blankenship, age 30 (b. VA; parents b.
VA) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Spanishburg
Township, Mercer County, West Virginia.
He had been married once. The
household also included his wife of 4 years (so m. abt 1906), Pady Blankenship, age 22 (b. KY; parents b. VA), who had
had 1 child, still alive; and daughter, Maudie
Blankenship, age 20 months (b. VA). Of
interest, the household headed by Reed Blankenship, age 24, was enumerated
directly before him on the same census page, and the household headed by David
D. Blankenship (perhaps his uncle), age 46, was
enumerated directly after him on the same census page.
1918 WWI
Draft Registration: Of possible interest, an Oscar Blankenship, age 36 (b. 19
Jan 1882) and employed as a miner for the Iroquois Mining Company, resided with
his wife, Frances Blankenship, at Devil's Fork, Wyoming County, West Virginia.
1920 US
Census: Of possible interest, an Oscar Blankenship, age 47 (b. VA; parents b.
VA) and employed as a sawyer in a sawmill, was heading a household on Juniper
Street in the City of Bluefield, Beaver Pond Township, Mercer County, West
Virginia. The household also included
his wife, Maggie Blankenship, age 53 (b. VA; parents
b. VA).
1930 US Census:
Of possible interest, an Oscar Blankenship, age 58 (b. VA; parents b. VA) and
employed as a lumberman in a saw mill, was heading a household in Maiden Spring
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. He
married 1st at age 19 (abt age 1891).
The household also included his wife, Lula Blankenship, age 29 (b. VA;
parents b. VA), who married 1st at age 17; and step-son, Paul Knuckles, age 11
(b. TN; father b. TN; mother b. VA). Of
interest, the household headed by William J. Blankenship, age 41, was enumerated
before him on the same census page.
1940 US
Census: Of possible interest, an Oscar Blankenship, age 67 (b. VA), widowed,
and employed as foreman of a construction company, resided in the household
headed by his son-in-law, Claude B. McReynold, age 56,
in the City of Bluefield, Beoven? Pond
Township, Mercer County, West Virginia.
Oscar had completed 8th grade.
Perhaps Oscar
Blankenship married (1st) Pattie (?) and had at least the following daughter:
(1. Maude Blankenship:
Born about 1908 in Virginia.
Perhaps Oscar
Blankenship married (2nd) Lula (?), who had the following son from a prior
marriage:
(2. Paul
Knuckles: Born about 1919 in Tennessee.
e. Joseph Blankenship: Born September 1852 in Giles
County, Virginia. No clear record found
after 1870, when Joseph was age 14 and resided with his parents, James and
Nancy Blankenship, in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
f. Thomas Blankenship: Born about 1858 in
Virginia. Died . No clear record found after 1880, when Thomas
was age 20 and resided with his parents, James and Nancy Blankenship, in Maiden
Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
g. David Daniel Blankenship: See generation
4, below.
h. Child: Stillborn 5 June
1868 at North Fork, Smyth/Loudon County, Virginia.
4 David Daniel Blankenship
1. Biographical notes:
Born 22 July 1860/61 in Smyth
County, Virginia. Died 25 March 1932 (per death certificate,
gravestone says 26 Mar), age 70 years, 8 months, and 3 days, from complications
of chronic nephritis (kidney inflammation), at Doran, Tazewell County,
Virginia; interred Lockhart Cemetery on Kent's Ridge Road. Resided last at Doran,
Tazewell County, Virginia.
1880 US Census: David
Blankenship, age 18 (b. VA; parents b. VA) and single, with no record of
employment, resided with his parents in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell
County, Virginia.
1900 US Census: David
Blankenship, age 38 (b. Jul 1861 in VA; parents b. VA) and employed as a
farmer, was heading a household in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County,
Virginia. The household also included
his wife of 14 years, Drucy Blankenship, age 29 (b.
Oct 1870 in NC; parents b. NC), who had had 7 children, 4 of whom were still
alive; daughter, Lilly Blankenship, age 13 (b. Mar 1887 in VA); son, Wm J.
Blankenship, age 11 (b. May 1889 in VA); son, David P. Blankenship, age 8 (b.
Jun 1891 in VA); son, John L. Blankenship, age 6 (b. Aug 1893 in VA); and
nephew, Oscar Blankenship, age 18 (b. 1882 in VA; parents b. VA), single, and
employed as a farm laborer.
1910 US Census: David D.
Blankenship, age 48 (b. VA; parents b. NC) and employed as a farmer, was
heading a household in Spanishburg Township, Mercer
County, West Virginia. He had been
married once. The household also
included his wife of 24 years, Drucy J. Blankenship,
age 39 (b. NC; parents b. NC), who had been married once and had had 11
children, 7 of whom were still alive; daughter, Lily N. Blankenship, age 22 (b.
VA) and single, with no record of employment; son, William J. Blankenship, age
20 (b. VA), single, and employed as a farm laborer on the home farm; son,
Preston D. Blankenship, age 18 (b. VA), single, and employed as a farm laborer
on the home farm; son, John L. Blankenship, age 16 (b. VA), single, and
employed as a farm laborer on the home farm; daughter, Ellie M. Blankenship,
age 9 (b. VA); son, Burley T. Blankenship, age 7 (b. VA); and daughter, Dale M.
Blankenship, age 3 (b. VA).
1920 US Census: David
Blankenship, age 58 (b. VA; parents b. VA) and employed as a coal miner, was
heading a household in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. The household also included his wife, Drucy J. Blankenship, age 50 (b. NC; parents b. NC); son,
William Blankenship, age 30 (b. VA; father b. VA; mother b. NC), single, and
employed as a coal miner; daughter, Eva M. Blankenship, age 17 (b. VA) and
single; son, Burley T. Blankenship, age 16 (b. VA); and son, Dale M.
Blankenship, age 12 (b. VA).
1930 US Census:
2. Wife: Drucilla Jane Phipps
"Drucy"/"Jane"
Born 20 October 1866 in Grayson
County, North Carolina; daughter of John Calvin and Mary "Mazie"
Dell (Dixon) Phipps. Died 7 April
1949, age 82 years, 5 months, and 18 days, from complications of apoplexy
(incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke). Married David D.
Blankenship about 1886.
3. Children:
a. Lilly Nanabell
Blankenship: Born 8 March 1887 in Virginia.
Died 15 December 1969 in Richlands
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
Married William Albert Montgomery.
b. William "Bud"
Jasper Blankenship, II: Born 8 May 1889 in Richlands
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. Died 27 April 1962 in Mountain Home Township, Washington County,
Tennessee. Married
Mildred Elizabeth Witt.
1920 US Census: William
Blankenship, age 30 (b. VA; father b. VA; mother b. NC), single, and employed
as a coal miner, resided in the household headed by his father, David
Blankenship, age 58, in Maiden Spring Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
1930 US Census: William J.
Blankenship, age 41 (b. VA; father b. VA; mother b. NC) and employed as a coal
miner, resided in the household headed by his father-in-law, Hugh Whitt, age 52
(b. VA; parents b. VA), widowed, and employed as a farmer in Maiden Spring
Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
William had married 1st at age 36.
The household also included William's wife, Mildred C. (Whitt)
Blankenship, age 26 (b. VA; parents b. VA), who married 1st at age 20;
daughter, Fay L. Blankenship, age 5 (b. VA; parents b. VA); daughter, Dorthy J. Blankenship, age 4 (b. VA); son, Harold D.
Blankenship, age 2 (b. VA); daughter, Betty Joe Blankenship, age 2 months (b.
VA; parents b. VA); brother-in-law, Beauford Whitt,
age 19 (b. VA; parents b. VA), single, and not employed; and sister-in-law,
Francis Whitt, age 17 (b. VA; parents b. VA), single, and not employed. Of interest, the household headed by his
cousin, Oscar Blankenship, age 58, was enumerated after him on the same census
page.
William J. Blankenship married Mildred
C. Whitt and had the following children:
(1. Fay L. Blankenship: Born
about 1925 in Virginia.
(2. Dorothy J. Blankenship:
Born about 1926 in Virginia.
(3. Harold D. Blankenship:
Born about 1928 in Virginia.
(4. Betty Joe Blankenship:
Born about March 1930 in Virginia.
c. David Preston Blankenship: Born June 1891 in
Virginia. Died 26
August 1943 in Richlands Township, Tazewell County,
Virginia. Married
Minnie Mae Hogston.
d. John Leonard Blankenship: See generation
3, below.
e. Robert C. Blankenship: Born 28 July 1896 in Richlands Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
f. Ellie M. Blankenship: Born 1901 in Virginia. Died .
g. Eva Mae Blankenship: Born about 1902 in Richlands Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. Died there 20 January 1969. At age 18 married James Claude Sayers, age 32,
son of Tom and Cordelia (?) Sayers, on 20 October
1920.
h. Burley Thomas Blankenship:
Born 19 August 1902 in Virginia. Died 31 August 1968 in Virginia; interred Clinch Valley Memorial
Cemetery and Mausoleum, Richlands Township, Tazewell
County, Virginia. Married (1st) Mabel Houchins (b. 1912, d.
1981). Married (2nd) Ocie Lee Lester (b. 20 Mar 1919, d. 23 Mar 2006; interred
with Burley).
i. Dale
Marlin/Marlon Blankenship: Born 28 April 1907 in Doran Township, Tazewell
County, Virginia. Died 16 January 1975
in Richlands Township, Tazewell County, Virginia;
interred Greenhills Memorial Gardens, Claypool Hill,
Tazewell County, Virginia. Married Katherine Smith (b. 1904, d. 1963).
3 John Leonard Blankenship
"Leonard"
1. Biographical notes:
Born 28 August 1894 in Richlands Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. Died 14 July 1941 in Doran Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
1920 US Census: Leonard
Blankenship, age 25 (b. VA; parents b. VA) and employed as a miner in the coal
mining industry, was heading a household in Maiden Spring District, Tazewell
County, Virginia. The household also
included his wife, Maud Blankenship, age 24 (b. VA; parents b. VA); and son, Adolphus Blankenship, age 1 year and 2 months (b. VA).
1930 US Census: Lenord Blankinship, age 35 (b.
VA; father b. VA; mother b. NC) and employed as a miner for a coal company, was
heading a household on Berwind Newball
Road in Cucumber Township (Big Creek Magesterial
District), McDowell County, West Virginia.
He married 1st at age 23. The
household also included his wife, Maud Blankinship,
age 34 (b. VA; parents b. VA), who married 1st at age 22; son, Adolph J. Blankinship, age 11 (b. VA); son, Claude W. Blankinship, age 9 (b. VA); daughter, Mildred H. Blankinship, age 6 (b. VA); daughter, Doris H. Blankinship, age 3 years and 6 months (b. VA); and son,
Homer L. Blankinship, age 1 (b. VA).
1940 US Census: Lenard
Blankenship, age 47 (b. VA), with no record of employment, was heading a
household in Maiden Springs Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. He had completed 5th grade. The household also included his wife, Maude
Blankenship, age 44 (b. VA), who had completed 5th grade; son, Aldolphis Blankenship, age 21 (b. VA), single, and employed
as a coal miner, who had completed 1 year of high school; son, Claude
Blankenship, age 19 (b. VA), single, and employed as a coal miner, who had
completed 7th grade; daughter, Mildred Blankenship, age 16 (b. VA) and single,
who had completed 9th grade; daughter, Doris Blankenship, age 13 (b. VA); son,
Lloyd Blankenship, age 11 (b. VA); and son, Thomas Blankenship, age 6 (b.
VA). On 1 April 1935 they resided in
rural Tazewell County, Virginia.
1950 US Census: Maude
Blankenship, age 51 (b. VA) and widowed, was heading a household in Richlands Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. The household also included her son, Tommy
Blankenship, age 16 (b. WV); lodger, Betty Monk, age 20 (b. VA) and married;
son, Lyod Blankenship, age 21 (b. WV), widowed, and
employed as a strip miner (works on tipple); and lodger, June Iene?, age 17 (b. VA), and married,
with no record of employment.
2. Wife: Maude Willis
Born 7 May 1896 in Clintwood Township, Russell
County, Virginia; daughter of Sanford and Harriet
E. (Curtis) Willis. Died 4 March 1982 in Marion
County, Ohio. Married
John Leonard Blankenship on 19 November 1917 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
3. Children:
a. Adolphus
Leonard Blankenship: See generation 2, below.
b. Claude Winton Blankenship: Born about 1921 in
Virginia. Died .
c. Mildred Blankenship: Born about 1924 in Virginia.
d. Doris Blankenship: Born about 1927 in Virginia.
e. Lloyd "Buzz"
Homer Blankenship: Born 12 March 1929 in Virginia. Died 18 May 2004.
f. Thomas Blankenship: Born about 1934 in Virginia.
2 Adolphus Leonard
Blankenship
1. Biographical notes:
Born 31 August 1918 in Richlands Township, Tazewell County, Virginia. Died about 1970 in Richlands County,
Virginia. Died Tazewell County,
Virginia; interred Bandy Family Cemetery, Baptist Valley, Tazewell County,
Virginia. In 1942 was employed by the Bandy
Brothers Coal Company, Richlands Township, Tazewell
County, Virginia.
1940 US Census: Adolphis Blankenship, age 21 (b. VA), single, and employed
as a coal miner, resided in the household headed by his father in Maiden
Springs Township, Tazewell County, Virginia.
He had completed 1 year of high school.
1950 US Census: Adolphus Blankenship, age 31 (b. VA) and employed as a coal
miner, was heading a household in Richlands Township,
Tazewell County, Virginia. The household
also included his wife, Bess Blankenship, age 30 (b. VA); daughter, Lana
Blankenship, age 8 (b. VA); and son, James Blankenship, age 6 (b. VA). Of interest, the household headed by Adolphus's mother-in-law, Blanch Bandy, age 59 (b. VA) and
widowed, with no record of employment, was enumerated directly before him on
the same census page. That household
also included her son-in-law, Elmer Morgan, age 30 (b. VA), with no record of
employment, and daughter, Clara Morgan, age 26 (b. WV). Also of interest, the household headed by Adolphus's mother, Maude Blankenship, age 51 (b. VA) and
widowed, with no record of employment.
That household also included Maude's son, Tommy Blankenship, age 16 (b. WV);
lodger, Bette Monk, age 20 (b. VA), and married, with no record of employment;
son, Lyod Blankenship, age 21 (b. WV), widowed, and
employed as a strip miner (works on tipple); and lodger, June Iene?, age 17 (b. VA) and married.
2. Wife: Bessie Dora Bandy
“Bess”
Born about 1919 in Tazewell
County, Virginia; daughter of James
Edward "Ed"
and Blanche Vivian (Lockhart)
Bandy. At age 21
married Adolphus L. Blankenship, age 22, on 28 September
1940 at Jeffersonville, Tazewell County, Virginia.
3. Children:
a. Maria Lana Blankenship: See generation 1,
below.
b. James Blankenship: Born about 1944 in Tazewell
County, Virginia. Married
Sandie (?).
1 Maria Lana Blankenship (photos) (more
info)
"Lana"
Born 19
September 1941
in Tazewell County, Virginia. Died 13 February 2018, age 76. Married (1st) (?) Everett;
subsequently divorced. Married (2nd) Charles Melvin Drake,
descendant #7 of generation 12 of the Descendants of Almond Henry Drake on 26 August 1967;
divorced 1985. Married (3rd)
James Donk; subsequently divorced.
See Charles'
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