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| Blanton, Benjamin Franklin 241127 |
| Birth: 02/02/1855 Death: 09/04/1938 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: See Notes |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/15/2025) |
| Notes Abstracted from Reminiscences of a Texas Frontier Heritage, by William Neal Blanton: At his son's request, Benjamin Blanton wrote a family history in long hand in 1834. In 1937, he attended the meeting of the National Frontiersmen's Association in Houston and headed a committee to mark the routes of the Chisholm Trail. As a photograph was made of Benjamin Franklin Blanton in Houston in August, 1938, he said to his son, William Neal Blanton, and his grandsons, "I hope that when the Lord calls me I go with my boots on. I don't want to linger, and I have a feeling this will be my last trip." He arrived in Paris, Texas on Sunday, September 4, 1938, went to the home of his son, Robert B. Blanton, and answered the call of the Lord "with his boots on." He headed for the last round-up with the same courage he had shown on his first trail drive at the age of 15. Benjamin Franklin Blanton was born in Colorado County, Texas on February 2, 1855 and died in Paris, Lamar County, Texas, September 4, 1938. The funeral was held at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco on September 5, 1938. |