L.O.Blanton
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L.O. & Delia Brown Blanton

Sherman Democrat, May 18, 1959 (transcribed by Ruth Hasten Walsh)
                       L. O. BLANTON, SR. DIES AT 81; RITES TUESDAY, 2 P.M.
 Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. in Daniel Funeral Home for L. O. Blanton, Sr. 81,
of Sherman route 2, who died at 10 a.m. Sunday in Fort Worth after a long illness.  He was
past president of the Dallas Cotton Exchange.  // Rudolph Tatisch, past of Central
Christian Church, will conduct the services.  Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery. //
Pallbearers will be R. H. Goble, R. L. Hall, S.A. Grafft, Harry Hudgins, and Adm. W.
K. Phillips, all of Sherman, and Lee Massey of Pilot Point.  // Mr. Blanton was born March
23, 1878 in Kentuckytown, a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Blanton.  On Oct. 25, 1899 he
married Miss Delia Brown in Whitewright.  He was a member of the Central Christian
Church. //  Mr. Blanton was a member of the Dallas Cotton Exchange for 25 years.  He
was in the cotton business in Saint Jo for many years before moving to Dallas  shortly
after WW I.   He had operated cotton gins and compresses and had land interests in
several places in Texas.  He was a past president of compress companies in McKinney,
Gainesville, and Sherman.  //  Survivors are his wife; three sons, Roy Blanton of
Gainesville, Don Blanton  of Dallas, L. O. Blanton, Jr. of Sherman; one daughter, Mrs. H.
E. DeLee of Corpus Christi, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
(Researcher's note:  L.O. Blanton was the son of Lemuel O. Blanton and Nancy Malinda
Frazier.  His paternal grandparents were Lemuel  Blanton and Martha Nicholson.  His
great-grandfather was John Dean Blanton.)

Sherman Democrat, May 10, 1965 (transcribed by Ruth Hasten Walsh)
 MRS. L. O. BLANTON, SR. DIES IN CORPUS CHRISTI - Mrs. L. O. Blanton, Sr. died
Saturday in Corpus Christi. // Funeral services will be held  at 2 P.M. Tuesday in Daniel
Funeral Chapel.  Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Blanton was born May 19,
1880 in Orangeville.  She  married Mr. Blanton October 25, 1899 in Whitewright.  He died
in 1959.   He was a past president of the Dallas Cotton Exchange and a past  president of
Sherman-McKinney Compress.  Mrs. Blanton lived in Sherman until 1964.  // Survivors
are two sons Roy Blanton of Gainesville  and Don Blanton of Dallas; one daughter, Mrs.
H. K. DeLee of Corpus Christi; two brothers, Tom Brown of Whitewright and Harry
Brown of  Trenton; one sister, Jess Muirhead of Trenton; six grandchildren and ten
great-grandchildren. (Researcher's note:  Delia Brown married L.O. Blanton in Grayson
Co., TX on 10-2-1899.)



 

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