Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Blankenship, T. H. 152603

Birth: 02/23/1872 Death: 07/20/1918 Marriage: TWICE

Cemetery: Brackeen (NORTHEAST)

Record Source: The Paris News

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

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THE PARIS MORNING NEWS, Sunday, July 21, 1918, p. 3: "BLOSSOM RESIDENT DIES AT A HOSPITAL. T. H. Blankenship, a resident of Blossom, where he was engaged in the blacksmith business, died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning at the Sanitarium, where he was operated on the day before for cancer of the stomach and bowels. He was forty-five years old and had lived in Lamar county most of his life. He was married twice and is survived by his second wife and two sons, children of his first wife. He is also survived by his father, J. P. Blankenship of Paris, and the following brothers, all residents of Lamar county: R. L. Blankenship, a merchant of West Paris; C. E. Blankenship, with the Howland Mercantile company at Atlas; Rev. N. L. Blankenship of Broadway and N. C. Blankenship of Sumner. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Geo. Davis, 314 Kaufman street, conducted by Rev. R. P. Shuler. The burial will be at the Brackeen graveyard near Atlas."

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: T.H. Blankinship
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 20 Jul 1918
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 23 Feb 1872
Birthplace: , Tennessee
Father's Name: J P Blankinship
Mother's Name: Fannie Holonsworth
Certificate Number: 29166
GS Film number: 2073267
Digital Folder Number: 005145383
Image Number: 03174
Citing this Record: "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3WH-9DX : accessed 27 July 2015), T.H. Blankinship, 20 Jul 1918; citing certificate number 29166, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,073,267.

One of two concrete blocks that once had paste on letters, near Marandy Blankenship.

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