Notes for William Norman Blampied: there is a civil war record for a William N. Blandpied in Co. 147 Ohio Inf. per pension record of invalid pension filed in 1914 in Kansas. Need to order civil war record for this person for confirmation
Death certificate informant was his wife "Mrs. S. J. Blampied" of Mulvane, Kansas. States his birth as 06 Aug 1850, death 24 March 1917, age 66 years 6 month and 18 days. Father was Thomas Blampied of Ohio and mother as Hanna (no maiden) of Virginia. William was a retired farmer.
In a typed paper from the collection of Don Gambril, is the following. It is written such that I believe it was copied from a book, but the source is not mentioned. Further research as to the source needs to be done. WILLIAM NORMAN BLANPIED, AN EARLY KANSAS PIONEER Several years before the first settlement of the area which was to become the townsite of Mulvane, William Norman Blanpied, answered the call "to go westward, young man". He went west by covered wagon to the valley of Cow Skin Creek - where he Pre-empted a tract of land some 16 miles south of Wichita, and 4 miles due west of the site which became the town of Mulvane. He was a decendent of the Hugenots who fled from France during the persecution of the French Hugenots. They settled on the Isle of Guernsey - off the Coast of England, Children of these Hugenots emigrated to Jamestown, Virginia; later many of them moved northwestward and settled in an area in eastern Ohio, which was later named Guernsey County, because of the large number of emigrants from the Isle of Guernsey. William BLANPIED was born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio - August 6, 1850. A few years after the ending of the Civil War, in 1869 he pioneered by going west to the State of Kansas - he pre-empted a tract of land on Cow Skin Creek. this locality became known as Prairie Garden because of the School and Cemetery nearby. William Blanpied returned to Guernsey County after clearing title to his pre-empted land, and married his sweetheart, Sarah Jane Rose on May 22, 1873; his bride was born in Liberty, Missouri, August 16, 1855 - she moved with her widowed mother, and two brothers, to Guernsey County, after her father was killed in the Civil War. Her great-great Grandfather, James Sharrock - born in England in 1750; emigrated to the United States, and fought in the Revolutionary war with the Army of the State of New York against his mother country; her great-Grandfather, Timothy Sharrock also fought against England in the War of 1812. William and Sarah Jane had eleven children - Willis and Orie died in Infancy; the nine children growing into adulthood were: Ida Ann, Elmer Caster, Lillian, Charles Wesley, Jesse Norman, Elva Avis, Lloyd Emory, Elsie Bernice and Bernerd William. All of these Children were born on the Prairie Garden farm except Ida Ann who was born June 9, 1874, Ida married Milton E. Myers, they had one daughter before separating - her marriage to George Lee West, a Railroad Man produced a daughter and a son. Elmer Caster became an Engineer on a crack Passenger Train out of Salt Lake City, he was father of 5 boys and one girl - he was killed while in the line of duty, February 1925. His wife, Lemma was a Salt Lake City girl. Charles Wesley became a Methodist Minister, he married Elsie rising a College mate at Southwestern College at Winfield. Jesse Norman, followed the Pharmacey business for many years, later he moved to Los Angeles where he became proprietor of a Retail Shoe Store. Elva Avis taught school locally for a few years, then married a local farmer, Clarence Archibald. Lloyd Emory married Elsie Oldfield of Wichita, he was employed for many years by a Gas & Electrical Company in Wichita and Forth Worth. He moved to Los Angeles and became a successful paint retailer, and Apartment House Owner. Elsie Bernice married a local farmer, Gerold Hutchinson. After a few years in and around Mulvane - they made a long move to the State of Oregon, where they raised their family in the big lumber country. Bernard William, the youngest of this large family, served nearly one year with the U.S. Army during the First World War, in France, After his Discharge he spent more than forth years as a geologist with the Pure Oil co. and Gulf Oil Corporation; he became Exploration Manager of the Shreveport District of the Gulf Oil Corporation. He married Lottie Pollan of Ft. Smith Arkansas, June 5, 1923. In order to live closer to the Mulvane Public Schools, Wm. Blanpied sold the Prairie Garden farm in 1901, and bought one only a mile east of Mulvane. He died March 24, 1917 in Mulvane, and Sarah Jane died in Los Angeles, December 22, 1929; both are buried in the Prairie Garden Cemetery across the highway from their early Cowskin farm.
More About William Norman Blampied: Burial: 27 Mar 1917, Prairie Garden Cemetery, Mulvane, Sedgwick co, Kansas.254, 255 Census 1: 1860, Wheeling, Guernsey Co, Ohio.256 Census 2: 1870, Davis, Davis Co, Kansas.257 Census 3: 1880, Belle Plain, Sumner, Kansas.258 Census 4: 1910, Gore, Sumner Co, Kansas.259 Occupation: 1880, Farmer.260
More About William Norman Blampied and Sarah Jane Rose: Marriage: 21 May 1873, Cambridge, Guernsey Co, Ohio.261, 262
Children of William Norman Blampied and Sarah Jane Rose are:
William Norman Blampied (b. 06 Aug 1850, d. 24 Mar 1917)
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