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Front Row: Virginia
Alice Blankenship, Martha Ann (Garrison) Blankenship, Lorenzo Jackson
Blankenship, Emma Laura Blankenship.
Back Row: Mary Catherine
Blankenship, Ulysses Grant Blankenship, Jacob Elihu Blankenship, John Rite
Blankenship, Martha Armita Blankenship (Minerva Naomi Blankenship - not in
the photo.)
Martha and Lorenzo were
buried in Corsicana Cemetery.
Submitted by:
Jim Garrison
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From a letter Betty Lamberson received in
1979 from Edith Salyer, a daughter, of pictured Emma Laura. This letter is
also going to be featured in the Corsicana section of the soon to be
released centennial book for Wheaton, Wheaton Echoes.
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Lorenzo Jackson Blankenship (born
April 4, 1820) married Martha Garrison (born May 1, 1830) in Virginia. They
came to Missouri and located on Flat Creek north of Cassville. He was a
carpenter and Brick Mason. He had a mill and a carding machine there. While
there he also built the first Courthouse in Cassville. Mary, born in 1851,
and Minerva born 1853, were born there. Minerva died and was buried here.
(Cassville) Then they moved to Corsicana where he bought a farm and built a
Mill, had a cotton gin and a carding Machine. He built an addition to a log
cabin and lived there while the big house was being built. Evidently it was
built in the 1860's for my Mother Emma was born in it December 3, 1872. She
married there in 1890. Grandmother died in November 1897, Grandfather
couldn't carry on alone as he had lost his hearing so the children took
turns living with him. He died October 11, 1901. Elihu and family were
living with him at that time and they stayed for a while. The original house
did not burn until after the property was sold. Grandfather was considered a
very prosperous man. Grandmother had the first cook stove and the first
sewing machine in that part of the country and people would come for miles
to see them. but think what a life she had with a baby every two years and
all that work! The other children of Lorenzo and Martha are: William
Alonzo b. 1835, Jacob Elihu born 1857, The baby born 1858, Virginia Alice
born 1860, John Right ( Rite?) born 1862, Lorenzo Dow born 1864, Ulysses
Grant born 1866, Martha Arminta born 1868, Emma Laura born 1872. Edith
Salyer
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From a letter sent to Betty Higgs Bridges by Edith Salyer of Cassville in
1979 when Betty was doing research on an old brick house thought to have
been built by Lorenzo Blankenship.
You will notice that Edith has listed five boys, only three in the photo
caption are listed - but four in the picture. I wonder which he is William
Alonzo or Lorenzo Dow? There is one absent from the photo.
The first Courthouse in Cassville was built of brick by Lorenzo Blankenship
and it was destroyed during the Civil War, A picture of this Courthouse is
featured on the cover of the 1888 Goodspeed's History of Barry County,
reprinted by Emory Melton.
Lorenzo also built a hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, it is thought to be
on one of the lower streets and is tri-cornered, I have really forgotten
which one but have it somewhere in my stuff!! I will try to look it up Soon?
On page 110 of the Higgs Family Maryland to Missouri is a group picture made
in Pierce city in about 1899 of some Garrisons, Higgs, Brattins and
Blankenships. My Father told me that the girls were the daughters of Dow
Blankenship.
Submitted by:
Betty Higgs Lamberson
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