PHOTOS FROM TOMMY BLANTON - MANY THANKS !!!

JOHN ALLEN AND MARY FAGAN BLANTON

 

 

 

WILLIAM THOMAS AND ADDIE KIDD BLANTON

on left - who is the couple on the right, anyone know?

                                       

 

 

 

BLANTON BROTHERS

 

 

TRAVIS, BILL, HOUSTON, WELDON

 

 

FAMILY GATHERING

(Please identify if you recognize anyone here!  Email me -re: Blanton Family - and I'll add whatever names I can!)

 

 

 

 

 

BLANTON-TATE

Monday, October 22, 2012

BLANTON - TATE CONNECTIONS, JUST TO CONFUSE EVERYTHING

It appears the Blantons and Tates go back quite a long way.

A William Blanton witnessed the sale of land by Wm/Elizabeth Tate in 1765 in Mecklenburg County VA.

In 1782 William Blanton sold 247 acres to Reuben Blanton in Brunswick Co VA. 

In 1786 Reuben Blanton witnessed a land transaction for William Tate Sr. in Spartanburg County, SC.

 

Edmund Blanton and Delilah Tate:

Edmund's father was Lewis, mother was Frances Hester. Lewis was the son of Reuben Blanton and Martha Johnson.

Delilah’s father was Wm Tate Jr. and her mother’s name was Mary.

Wm Tate Sr was Delilah's grandfather; his wife’s name was Elizabeth Hester.

Delilah's grandmother Elizabeth’s parents were James and Frances Hester.

(Is anyone else a little confused by the repetition of names in families, or is it just me?)

Census of Rutherford Co., Burwell Bradford Blanton married Mary Caroline "Polly"Tate, b. 1810

MARGARET TATE, b. 1827, Monroe County, Tennessee; m. CLAYBORN BLANTON, Abt. 1846.

Sue Blanton 1917-1995 married Haskell Tate 1916-1997. Both are buried Oak Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. Sue Blanton is a descendant of Jeremia and Sarah Womack Blanton

David Tate, married Nancy Blanton, daughter of Reuben Blanton, Sr. David died ca 1812 in Rutherford/Cleveland Co, NC.

"My gg-grandmother was Delilah Tate, sister to your Henry Howe Tate. She married Edmund Blanton. Her sister Martha (Patsy) Tate married Edmund's uncle, Herod Blanton."

Blanton, Paul (*1905 - ) - male
father: Blanton, William Thomas(*1874 - 1932)
mother: O'Brien, Ida(1874 - 1941)
spouse: Tate, Laura (*1909 - )

Interesting: Not our line that I can see, but interesting!

The last known child of Martha and George was (8) Alsey Blanton b. 1822 m. Madison "Mattney" Blanton. He may have m. 1. Rebecca Blanton, dau of John Blanton, in Green Co. TN and had four children named John, Cyrene, Martha, and Delila. It is told that Madison migrated to western Kentucky and Arkansas and brought back a child named James Blanton who first shows in 1860 Magoffin census at age 17. His mother is said to have been an Indian.

This James Blanton (though not a descendant of Martha) was the eldest child in that census. Madison Blanton then m. Alsy Blanton b. 1822, youngest dau of Martha and George

The above little story has nothing to do with the Tate's but seems to have a lot to do with Blantons!

Reuben, Lewis, Edmund, Wm Newton, John Allen, William Thomas, Riley Eugene, Wauna Lee and Daughters

BLANTON INTRODUCTORY OUTLINE

1.

Reuben Blanton married Martha Johnson and they had six children including Lewis (1785—1862)

2.

Lewis Blanton m. Frances Hester (b.1790); they had 11 children including Edmund.

(William Tate Jr. had a daughter named Delilah with his wife Mary.)

3.

Edmund Blanton (1806-1881) married Delilah Tate (1805-1880) on 8 April 1824. They had 15 children, five daughters and ten sons, five of whom died in the Civil War. One of these was William Newton, d.11/3/1863.

(Other Tates married other Blantons, check the data.)

4.

Wm. Newton Blanton m. Nancy Allen (1832-1912) in 1852; they had three children, one of whom was John Allen Blanton, all born < 1863.

(The family moved to Choctaw County, Mississippi, but apparently Nancy and the three kids spent the war years in Gaffney SC with Wm. Newton’s parents Edmund and Delilah Tate Blanton. There are copies of letters from Wm to Nancy, and a photo of him in his Confederate uniform.

Sometime before 1870 (after William Newton died in the war in 1863) Nancy Allen Blanton met and married Perry Moore, ‘an American Indian’ (b.1830 in Alabama) and they lived in ‘the Indian Territory’. Also < 1870 John Allen and his sisters left OK with their mother Nancy and Mr. Moore and settled in the Rockwall area of TX.)

5.

In 1880 John Allen owned land in the area (Rockwall Kaufman County TX). He married Mary Fagan and had two children while in TX, William Thomas and May Louise.

(They returned to OK where Mary Fagan Blanton and a third child died.

John Allen Blanton and the two children, William Thomas and May Louise, went back to TX and again settled in the Rockwall (Forney) area.)

John Allen Blanton married second a niece of (his deceased wife) Mary’s, Josephine B. Styles and they had three children.

(The family moved back to OK and returned again to TX < 12/24/1895 where they had three more children at ‘the old home place’ in the Warsaw Community of Kaufman County TX.)

Josie died of TB in 1905 at the age of 33.

John Allen Blanton died 10/11/1927 and the land was divided among the living children.

6.

William Thomas Blanton (7/18/1881-7/3/1940), son of John Allen Blanton (12/24/1855-10/11/1927) and Mary Fagan Blanton (9/3/26-1884) married Mary Addie Kidd in 1907. They had ten children, including Riley Eugene (Bill) Blanton (7/2/1910-12/12/1949).

7.

Riley Eugene Blanton married Johnnie Lee Duran (3/6/1918---) on 11/1/1936. They had five children including Wauna Lee Blanton.

8.

Wauna Lee Blanton (b. 11/26/1937) married Robert Samuel Branson (b, 3/3/33) on 9/3/1955. They had four daughters – Beverly Ann(10/56, TX), Shiela Lynnett(4/58, TX), Deronda Gail(9/59, TX), and Mary Louise(7/63, AK).