Blanton Obituaries

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Bettie Blanton
Mattie Fredonia Aldridge Blanton
William Franklin Blanton

from Ruth Walsh

Bonham Daily Favorite, Bonham, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 27, 1960, p. 6
County's Oldest Citizen...
AUNT BETTY BLANTON RITES SET SUNDAY
TRENTON (Spt.) -- Mrs. John Blanton, better known to all as Aunt Betty, died in the Chapman Rest Home Friday, Nov. 26, 1960 on her 102nd birthday. She was Fannin county's oldest citizen. // Funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church in Trenton at 2:30 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. H.V. Caraway, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Porters cemetery, near Orangeville. // Aunt Betty had made her home at the Chapman Rest home for the past three years after moving here from Orangeville, three miles north of here. // She had fallen at the home on election day, Nov. 8, and suffered a hip injury that had left her bedridden for the past three weeks. The shock that followed the injury was said to have contributed to her fatal illness. // Mrs. Blanton was born Nov. 28, 1858, in Mcminn county, Tennessee, and came to Fannin county when she was 34 years old. Three years later she married John Blanton, a widower, who had three young children. // As a young girl, Aunt
Betty remembered northern soldiers camped in her father's yard during the War Between the States. // To her, the War Between the States was always "the first war" and she remembered it far more vividly than the Spanish American War, the two world wars and the Korean incident. // Shortly after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Blanton settled at Orangeville, then a thriving community of three churches, as many or more saloons,a gin, a grist mill, several stores and a hotel that catered to students attending a school at Orangeville. // Mr. Blanton farmed and operated a general store in Orangeville until his death in 1923. // Aunt Betty remained active almost to her 100th birthday and did all the work in a garden that covered an acre. // Aunt Betty had made her home with Mrs. Bruce Robinson until moving to the rest home here two years ago. // Survivors include a niece, Mrs. Audrey Hardiman and a nephew, Randall Taylor. // Aunt Betty was Fannin county's oldest resident.
(Research note: Bettie Graves and John Dean Blanton were married on January 15, 1891 in Fannin Co., TX by the Rev. B. F. Blanton. At the time Betty and John were married, the Rev. Benjamin F. Blanton was a neighbor. The two Blanton men were not related.)

Leonard Graphic -July 24, 1959
MRS. M. BLANTON RITES WEDNESDAY AT BLANTON CHAPEL -
Mrs. Mattie Blanton, 80, succumbed at 5 a.m. Tuesday, July 21, 1959 at Risser Hospital in Bonham after an illness of three weeks. Funeral services were held at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday at Blanton Chapel Methodist Church. Officiating ministers were Rev. R. L. Cates, pastor of Cumby Methodist Church, Rev. A. A. Timmons, pastor Blanton Chapel Methodist Church and
Charles Kuhn, Savoy Church of Christ minister. // Interment was in Leonard Cemetery with Earnheart funeral Home directing. // Mrs. Blanton was born November 26, 1878 at Trenton, a daughter of the late Jasper and Patra Aldridge. She married Charles Henry Blanton December 25, 1892 at Blanton Chapel Methodist Church. He preceded her in death April 5, 1937. //
Survivors include three sons,Jessie Blanton of Leonard, Lois Blanton of Blanton Chapel, and Dr. Earl Blanton of Denton; three daughters, Miss Ila Blanton, Mrs. Guy Christian and Mrs. H.W. Hancock of Leonard; eleven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. (Mrs. M. Blanton was the former Mattie Fredonia Aldridge.)

Denison Herald, 5-20-1963
W.F. BLANTON DIES; BOKCHITO RITES PENDING - Bokchito - Funeral for William Franklin Blanton, 64, who died Sunday in a Denison hospital is pending with the Coffee Funeral Home of Durant in charge. // He was born March 18, 1899 in Leonard, Tex., and had lived in Bryan County since 1921. He was married June 21, 1930 in Atoka and was a cafe operator and Baptist. // Survivors include his widow, Frankie; five sons, Billy of Bokchito; Bobby of Lindsey, Johnny of Borger, Allen and Robert of Denison; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Bennett of Bokchito; Mrs. Dora Kirksey of Corpus Christi, and Mrs.. Catherine Grider of Houston; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Taylor of BOKCHITO; two brothers, Ed of Leonard, and Les of California; three sisters, Mrs. Sue Moccygemba of Bokchito, Mrs. Lula Ivie of Lubbock, and Mrs. Laura Jones of San Antonio, and 13 grandchildren. (Researcher's note: William F. "Bill" Blanton was the son of John E. A. Blanton and Margaret
Elizabeth Keller. His grandparents were Rev. Benjamin F. Blanton and Sarah L. Boone and George W. Keller and Julia Ann Easton Sturdivant.
Julia was part Cherokee.)

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