Durant Daily News, July 21, 1971
SERVICES SET FOR MARGARET TAYLOR // Funeral service will be 3 p.m. Thursday in the Bokchito Church of Christ for Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Taylor, __, Calera, who died Tuesday in Calera.  The Rev. Guy Davis assisted by the Rev. Cecil Roller will officiate with the burial in the Bokchito cemetery. // Mr. Taylor, a housewife, was born May 18, 1883 in Dallas Co., Tex.  A member of the Church of Christ, she lived in Bryan Co. since 1921 and Calera seven years. // Surviving are two sons and three daughters:  Leslie V. Blanton, San Antonio, Tex.; George E.Blanton, Leonard, Tex.;Laura Jones, San Antonio, Tex.; Lula Ivey, Lubbock, Tex. and Savella Moczygemba.  // Coffee Funeral home is handling service arrangements.

(Researcher's note:  Margaret Taylor nee Margaret Elizabeth Keller 's maternal grandfather, James Riley Sturdivant was born in Franklin Co., TN where affidavits filed with Bureau of Indian Affairs stipulate that James was acknowledged by the Cherokee Nation to be of Cherokee blood.   While he was still a young man, the Sturdivant family, together with a small band of Cherokee were forced to migrate to Independence Co., AR where James married Martha Divers.  James and Martha and their two small daughters, together with several families of Cherokee heritage then migrated to lands in and around Collin Co., TX.   Interestingly, one of Margaret's Sturdivant ancestors, a John Sturdivant, participated in Bacon's Rebellion at Jamestown, VA in 1676.  Court records reveal he was fined 3,000 lbs of tobacco for his participation in Bacon's cause.  In 1684 John Sturdivant, who was an Indian trader, appears in the records of William Byrd when Byrd reported,"ole Sturdivant and his son were killed by Indians."   Margaret's first husband was John E.A. Blanton by whom she had 10 children. Her second husband was E.J. (Edward?) Seals (Sr.) by whom she had 1 son; it is not know "what happened to Mr. Seals."  There is no record of a divorce action filed in any of the places where Margaret was known to have lived, therefore, it is likely he, Mr. Seals between 1925-1930.  Margaret's third husband was Walter F. "Bud" Jones.  Margaret's fourth husband was Sidney J. Taylor.  Margaret was buried beside Walter F."Bud" Jones.   In addition to the loss of each of her husbands she was predeceased by her parents, George W. Keller and Julia A. E. Sturdivant Keller, four sons and one daughter, Clodye Blanton, Homer B. Blanton, John Thomas Blanton, Archie Lee Seals and Ruby Mae Blanton Winkler.

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Sherman Democrat, p. 8, Section I, Sept. 6, 1973
MRS. CARL HOGG - Denison - Services for Mrs. Carl D. Hogg, 74, who died Friday at a Denison hospital will be held 2 p.m. Sunday at Earnheart Chapel, Whitewright, conducted by Rev. Bill Grisham of Whitewright Methodist Church.  // Burial will be at Randolph Cemetery.  //Mrs. Hogg was born in Trenton and married Carl Hogg Sept. 22, 1934, in Durant, Okla.  She was a member of the Methodist Church. // Surviving are husband; sons, Hal Leroy Tingle of Denison, Marvin T. Hogg of Dallas and Vernon D. Hogg of Milpitas, Calif.; daughter, Mrs. Harvey G.Roberts of Denison; brothers, W.B. Blanton of Bells and Raymond Hill of Denison; sisters, Mrs. Era McBride of Sherman, Mrs. Ora Lee Murray
of Plainview, Mrs. Faye Chenault of Hobbs, New Mexico, and Mrs. Gracie Robinson of Odessa; 11 grandchildren and one-great grandchild.  //The family will be at the Funeral home Saturday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
(researcher's note:  Mrs. Carl Hogg was the former Jennie Donie Blanton,daughter of Marion Thomas Blanton and Josephine Argenia Matthews and the granddaughter of Benjamin F. Blanton and Sarah L. Boone.
Jennie was predeceased by a stillborn daughter, Donie Lee Tingle and by her first husband Joe L. Tingle.  Marvin T. Hogg and Vernon D. Hogg were stepsons of Jennie Donie Blanton Tingle Hogg.)

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Bonham Daily Favorite, Dec. 17, 1974
JOHN BLANTON SERVICES ARE HELD MONDAY
Funeral services for John R. Blanton, 83, of the Edhube community were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Wise Funeral Home with the Rev. Joe Eubanks and the Rev. Wayne Dyer officiating.  Burial was in Willow Wild.  // Mr. Blanton died in a Sherman hospital at 3:15 p.m. Saturday Dec. 14, 1974.  // He was born at Trenton, April 29, 1891, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Blanton.  He married Ida Clark in Bonham July 16, 1916.  // A member of the Edhube Baptist Church, he was a retired farmer and carpenter.  // Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ida Blanton of the home; two sons, Wesley Blanton of Cleburne and Leslie Blanton of Edhube; five daughters, Mrs. Glowrene Wright of Picton, Mrs. Margaret Hill of Pine Forest, Mrs. Helen Stinson, Mrs. Bonnie Krempling and Mrs. Mildred Abbott of Sherman, 19 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.  A son Harold J. preceded him in death.  // Grandsons served as active pallbearers. (Researcher's note:  John Royal Blanton's father was a sibling of Benjamin F. "Frank" Blanton who married Julia Ann Blanton, daughter of Stephen F. Blanton and Sarah McDaniel.)

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Leonard Graphic, January 10, 1975
BLANTON - Jess M. Blanton, eighty year old retired farmer who lived in the Grove Hill Community died in a Sherman hospital January 3, 1975. // Funeral services were Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Taylor Funeral Chapel with Connie Hollis, Church of Christ minister, officiating.  Burial was in the Grove Hill Cemetery.  // Mr. Blanton was born May 28, 1894 west of Randolph, the son of Charley and Mattie Aldredge Blanton.  He married
Una Richardson of Randolph in June 1918.  He was a veteran of World War I.  // He is survived by one daughter, Ms. Katherine Johnson of Tom Bean; two sons, J.M. Blanton of Santa Anna, California and John Charles Blanton of Sherman; three sisters, Mrs. Guy Christian, Mrs. Dan W. Hancock and Miss Ila Blanton, all of Leonard; two brothers, Lois Blanton of Leonard and Earl Blanton of Denton; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.  // Pallbearers were Clifford Daniels, Smokey Leggett, Guy Robinson, Melvin Barr, Billy Grimes and E.D. Owens.  (Researcher's note:  Jess was grandson of Benjamin F. Blanton and Sarah L. Boone.)

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Unknown paper, Wed., October 27, 1976
GEORGIA BLANTON - Leonard - Service for Mrs. Georgia Eva Blanton of Blanton's Chapel Community, 72, housewife who died Wednesday at a Greenville hospital following a sudden illness, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Blanton's Chapel's Methodist Church, conducted byConnie Hollis, the Rev. George Wilcoxon and the Rev. David Riley. // Burial will be at the Leonard Cemetery under the direction of the Taylor Funeral Home.  // She was born in Nelleton, Miss, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bolton Mullins.  She was a member of the Blanton Methodist Church for 54 years.  She married Lois Blanton on December 20, 1924 in Leonard.  // Surviving are her husband; sisters, Mrs. Jack Taylor of
Dorchester and Mrs. Carl Weatherman of Sherman.  // Pallbearers are Thomas Blanton, John Charles Blanton, Billy Mack Taylor, S.B. Tolbert,Corney Wilson and Timothy Dan Hancock.  The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.