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49. NANCY ELLEN6 ELDER (JEREMIAH5, SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, GEORGE2, ALEXANDER1) was born 25 Dec 1850, and died 26 Jan 1873. She married JAMES MONROE HUDGINS211 18 May 1870 in ,Saline Co.,Illinois212, son of JAMES HUDGINS and JULIA ENSMINGER. He was born 01 Aug 1850 in Illinois213, and died 22 Dec 1912.

More About NANCY ELLEN ELDER:
Census: 1860, HH 498 / Eldorado PO., Saline Co., IL

Notes for JAMES MONROE HUDGINS:
Ancestry has the 1900 census indexed under James N Hudgins.

More About JAMES MONROE HUDGINS:
Burial: Unknown, Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, Stoddard, Mo
Census: 1880, HH 184 / Herald Praire, White, IL
Occupation: 1900, Miller
Residence: 1880, Herald Prairie, White, Illinois214,215

Marriage Notes for NANCY ELDER and JAMES HUDGINS:
Book C Page 19 HUDGINS, James M. - Nancy E. Elder, May 18, 1870, Moses P. McGehee J.P.

More About JAMES HUDGINS and NANCY ELDER:
Marriage: 18 May 1870, ,Saline Co.,Illinois216
     
Children of NANCY ELDER and JAMES HUDGINS are:
  i.   CHARLES H.7 HUDGENS, d. 29 Jan 1873.
164. ii.   EZRA NAPOLEAN HUDGINS, b. 10 Jun 1871, Illinois; d. Unknown.


50. MARY MARGARET6 ELDER (JEREMIAH5, SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, GEORGE2, ALEXANDER1) was born 20 Dec 1852 in IL217, and died 17 Jul 1939 in Eldorado, Saline Co., IL. She married FRANCIS MARION ELDER 13 Mar 1875 in ,Saline Co.,Illinois218, son of JOHN ELDER and EDIE CARNER. He was born 28 Nov 1831, and died 13 Nov 1898.

More About MARY MARGARET ELDER:
Burial: Unknown, Wolf Creek Cemetary,Saline Co.,Illinois, Area 8 Row 3219
Census: 1920, East Eldorado Twp., Saline County, Il HH 317 living with daughter

Notes for FRANCIS MARION ELDER:
Census Place:      District 111, El Dorado, Saline, Illinois      1880
Source:      FHL Film 1254248 National Archives Film T9-0248 Page 129D
            Relation      Sex      Marr      Race      Age      Birthplace
Frank ELDER      Self      M      M      W      48      IL
      Occ:      Farming      Fa: KY      Mo: KY
Mary M. ELDER      Wife      F      M      W      28      IL
      Occ:      Keeps House      Fa: IL      Mo: IL
Talitha ELDER      Dau      F      S      W      3      IL
                  Fa: IL      Mo: IL

Frank as he was famillarly called, was one of the early merchants of Eldoredo, he owned a saw-mill, a flour-mill, and was partner with J. W. Cox in a general merchandise store. He took active part in civic affairs and was a member of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Eldorado when he died.


More About FRANCIS MARION ELDER:
Burial: Aft. 13 Nov 1898, Wolf Creek Cemetery, Area 8 Row 4, Age 66 y 11 m 15 d
Census: 1850, Laborer in Saline Co., Illinois age 18

Marriage Notes for MARY ELDER and FRANCIS ELDER:
Book D Page 59 ELDER, Francis M.(43) - Miss Mary M. ELDER(22), March 13, 1875, John W. Cox J.P. at Eldorado. Both r-Eldorado.

More About FRANCIS ELDER and MARY ELDER:
Marriage: 13 Mar 1875, ,Saline Co.,Illinois220
     
Child is listed above under (11) Francis Marion Elder.


51. CYNTHIA ELIZABETH6 ELDER (JEREMIAH5, SAMUEL4, SAMUEL3, GEORGE2, ALEXANDER1) was born 12 Nov 1853, and died 14 Jun 1937 in Saline Co., IL. She married ALONZO C. BLANKENSHIP 06 Jan 1876 in ,Saline Co.,Illinois221, son of ANDREW BLANKENSHIP and MARY DEMPSEY. He was born Abt. 1850 in Ohio, and died 15 Nov 1935 in Saline Co., IL.

Notes for CYNTHIA ELIZABETH ELDER:
Living with the family in 1920 were a Dillon Family


More About CYNTHIA ELIZABETH ELDER:
Burial: Unknown, Wolf Creek Cemetery,Area 10 Row 20 (1854 - 1938)
Cause of Death: Cancer
Census: 1900, HH 68 6 children 4 living / 1st Ward Eldorado, Saline, IL

Notes for ALONZO C. BLANKENSHIP:

This is the first time ALonzo shows up in an Illinois census.
1880 Census Page 8 Family 73 Village of Eldorado
Blankenship, L 28 Farmer Ohio Ohio Ohio
, Cintha 24 wife ILL ILL ILL
, Mary A. 03 dau ILL Ohio ILL
, Madison 11/12 July son ILL Ohio ILL
Shomate, Mary 73 Grandmother Ky Ky Ky


1900 Census
Blankinship, Alonzo
Lived in: 1 Ward Eldorado, Saline County, Illinois
Series: T623 Microfilm: 342 Book: 2 Page: 50A Sheet 4 Ed 80
Family 75 HH
Alonzo Head 50 Oct 1849 married 25 years Ohio Ohio Ohio
Cintha E. wife 45 Nov 1854 married 25 years ILL ILL ILL 6 children/ 4 living
Roy son 20 Sept 1879 single ILL ILL ILL
George son 16 Dec 1883 single ILL ILL ILL
Birthy dau 14 Apr 1886 single ILL ILL ILL

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Subject: Andrew Johnson Blankenship
Author: Martha Grainger
Date: 08 Oct 2003 1:52 AM GMT
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Andrew Johnson Blankenship was born November 28, 1828, in Aid, a small coal mining town in Lawrence county, southern Ohio. His parents were Andrew Blankenship, born about 1790 in Ohio and Hannah, last name possible Rankin, also born about 1790 in xxxxx. Andrew and Hannah were married in 1812, in Gallia county, Ohio, which is the next county over from Lawrence, just to the east. Andrew Johnson had at least two siblings, an older brother named James Madison Blankenship, born in 1815, and a sister Ida, born in 1826. Andrew Johnson seems to have gone by his middle name, perhaps to keep from getting him confused with his father. His older brother also seems to have gone by his middle name.

Andrew Johnson Blankenship was married in Lawrence county on June 28, 1849 to a Mary “Polly” Dempsey. Polly was the daughter of Thomas Dempsey and Dicey Lucas. She was born about 1825, in Logan county, Virginia (now part of West Virginia). Polly had an older brother, John, who was born about 1821. When John and Polly were still young, their father most likely died, leaving Dicey a widow. She then married a Samuel P. Vannatter, with whom she had at least 7 children, the first being born in 1833.

Johnson and Polly appear on the 1850 census of Aid twp, Lawrence co, Ohio. Johnson is 22 years old, Polly is 25, and they have a son Alonzo C, who is listed as being a month old. The same census has Johnson’s parents, Andrew, age 60, and Hanna, age 59, as well as his older brother Madison, Madison’s first wife Delila, and their 6 children. His sister Ida had married a Nathan Earwood in 1844, and they had two small children.

The next ten years were busy ones. Johnson and Polly had 5 more children: Lorenzo Dow, born August 9, 1852; Floyd Dempsey, born August 1853; a daughter, born about 1856; James Madison, (no doubt named for his uncle) born 1859, and John B (born before 1860). But something happened that split the family up. By the time of the 1860 census, Polly had moved back to Logan county with her two youngest sons, James Madison and John B, and had moved in with her mother, step-father, and half siblings.

Meanwhile, Johnson, his parents and two of his children, Alonzo age ? and Flora age ?, moved to Clay twp, Gallia county, and at the time of the 1860 census, were living next door to Ida and Nathan Earwood, who by then had 8 children. Lorenzo Dow Blankenship is still living in Aid, Ohio, with a family named Smith, and listed in the census as being 6 years old. Older brother Madison, his second wife Margaret, two of his children form his first marriage and his two children from his second are also living in Aid. There doesn’t seem to be any record of Floyd in either Lawrence county or Gallia county, Ohio, or in Logan county, Virginia. I suspect he was living with another family, and was counted as their child.

Johnson remarried in Gallia county, on February 7, 1863, to a Sarah Jane Fosnot. Sarah Jane’s death certificate lists her father’s name as George and says he was born in Germany. There are a variety of spellings of her last name: Fasnot, Fosnaugh, and Fasnauch being three of them. Johnson and Sarah Jane’s first child, Ida Jane, was born in Lawrence county, on November 1, 1863.

At some point, for some reason, Johnson, his brother Madison, and their father decided to move from southern Ohio to southern Illinois. I wonder if it had anything to do with the Civil War. As the roads during that time were not good, it seems most likely that they took a boat down the Ohio River.

By 1870, Johnson and Sarah Jane were living in the small town of Equality, in Gallatin county, Illinois. Johnson’s four oldest children were living with them; AC, age 19; LD, age 18; FD, age 16 and Hannah, age 14. This seems to be the same child who was named Flora in 1860. Then there are two younger children, Flora, age 3, and Laura, 2 months old. There seems to be no record of Ida Jane, who would have been about 6 years old. But why was the daughter named Flora in 1860 and Hannah in 1870? And then why did Johnson and Sarah Jane name another daughter Flora? Also living with this family is old Andrew. His wife Hannah seems to have died between 1860 and 1870, but if she died in Ohio or in Illinois, and when she died, I have no idea.

About seven miles away in Eldorado, Illinois, lived Madison, with a third wife, Eliza Gilday, whom he married in 1865. None of Madison’s children from his first wife seemed to have moved with him, but his two daughters from his second wife, Mary Esther and Henrietta, are there, along with his two young sons with Eliza, Johnson (probably named for his uncle), age 3, and Charles, age 1. Although Madison and Johnson were living just a short distance apart, Eldorado is in Saline county, so all the county records are in different places.

In 1870, old Andrew Blankenship died, and was buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery, a mile or two outside of Eldorado, on the way towards Equality. The next year, he was joined by two of his grandsons, both children of Madison and Eliza: Johnson, age 4, and John W, an infant.

In Logan county, West Virginia, James Madison and John B Blankenship are living with their grandmother and step-grandfather, Dicey and Samuel Vannatter. Their mother, Polly Blankenship, id in the Weston Home for the Insane, in Weston, Lewis county, West Virginia.

In 1880, Johnson, age 57, and Sarah Jane, age 47, were still living in Equality, Illinois with children Laura, age 10; Albert B, age 7, AJ, age 2 and “grandson” Jas. E. Hudgeons, age 4. This little boy is the son of Flora/Hannah, Johnson’s son with Polly Dempsey. His father...... there are three possible men who could have father this boy. They are the only three the right age and in the right area. They also are all first cousins of each other. The contenders include: William Monroe Hudgins, born about 1852, son of John Wesley and Martha Hudgins; James Monroe Hudgins, born about 1851, son of James R and Julia Ann Hudgins; and Columbus M Hudgins, born September 5, 1852, son of Asa Harrison and Mary (Lowe) Hudgins. Personally, I think the most likely is James Monroe (who went by his middle name, Monroe, so as not to confuse him with his father James). He is in the 1880 census in Equality, and his name is also spelled “Hudgeons”. He also was married May 18, 1870 to Nancy Ellen Elder, daughter of Jeremiah and Barbara (Shomate) Elder. Monroe and Nancy had two sons, Ezra Napoleon, born June 10, 1870, and Charles, born January 20, 1873. Nancy died January 26, and Charles 3 days later. Monroe went back to Equality to live with his parents, would have known the Blankenships, and could have fathered a child.

Meanwhile, Johnson’s oldest son Alonzo “Lonse” moved to Saline county, and married a Cynthia Elder on January 6, 1876. The Elder family was one of the founding families of Eldorado. In 1880, “L. Blankenchip”, age 28, his wife “Cintha” age 24, and their children, Mary A, 3 years old and Madison, 11 months. Also living with them is a Mary Shomate, age 73, “grandmother”. Next door to them are living Cynthia’s parents, Jeremiah and Barbara (Shomate) Elder. Yes, Cynthia Elder and Nancy Elder were sisters.

Johnson’s second son, Lorenzo, married Sabia Morton October 14, 1877 in Gallatin county. His brother Floyd had married Sabie’s sister, Sarah Ella Morton June 2, 1871. Sabie and Sarah were the daughters of FA Morton and his wife Mary Whitley, who was born in England.

Lorenzo and Sabie had three sons; Andrew Dow, Edward Harvey and JF. Lorenzo died in 1908, and his wife died March 11, 1934. They are both buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, as are their sons JF, Edward, and Edward’s wife Bertha.

Floyd and Sarah had children Anna, Maggie, Leonard, Wade W, Charles O, Mary Pearl, Lurlene and Irena. Floyd, Sarah and Wade are all buried at Wolf Creek Cemetery, just north of Eldorado, Illinois.

James Madison and John B Blankenship stayed the rest of their lives in West Virginia, both marrying and raising families. Their mother, Polly, died in the Weston Hospital for the Insane in November 1887.

Johnson and Sarah Jane’s daughter, Laura Belle, married a Samuel Newton Swain and they had eight children: Andrew J, William B, Eva, Lida, Tina, Clara, Minnie and Madeline. Laura and Sam, as well as Lida and Minnie, are all buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery.

What about the “grandson”, James E. Hudgins?

Johnson made a will that was dated November 8, 1897, where he lists a wife, Sarah J; daughter, Laura Belle Swain, and “boys”, AC, LD, FD, JM, John B, AB and JE. Except for JE, the other boys are his sons with Polly Dempsey. Laura Belle and AB seem to be his only surviving children with Sarah Jane.

Andrew Johnson Blankinship died October 16, 1906 in Eldorado, Illinois. When his will was probated, it listed his widow, Sarah J, and these children: AC of Eldorado, JE of 779 Dunlap Ave, Memphis, TN; AB of Obion, TN; LD of Eldorado; JM of Holden, WV; JB of Holden WV; and LB Swain of Eldorado. He also listed these grandchildren (children of FD, who had died in 1901): Maggie Council of Harrisburg, Illinois; WW; CO; MP; Luarline, and Ella.

Albert B. died of TB in 1910 in Tennessee, and was buried in Illinois. But who was the JE? Was it the little boy, Jas. E. Hudgeons, the grandson from the 1880 census?

The 1900 census of Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee, does list a James E. Blankinship, age 24, living on Dunlap Ave, with wife Clara E and a 4 month old daughter, Laura L. This is the same JE that Johnson mentions in his will and in the probate. Did Johnson and Sarah Jane adopt their grandson? Did they raise him as their own and he decided to take the Blankinship name because of that?

By 1920, James E and Clara E Blankinship are living on Stafford Street in Huntington Park, California, with their four children: Louise L, James E, Jr, Herman E and William. James E died in Huntington Park, California, in 1828. On his death certificate, he has his birth place as Illinois, and his father’s name is “Johnson Blankenship”. Although this was actually his grandfather, this is who filled the role of father in his life.









More About ALONZO C. BLANKENSHIP:
Burial: Unknown, Wolf Creek Cemetery,Area 10 Row 20 (1850 - 1935)222
Census: 1850, Age 1/12 / Aid Twp, Lawrence Co., Ohio
Occupation: Butcher
Residence: 1860, Clay, Gallia, Ohio223

Marriage Notes for CYNTHIA ELDER and ALONZO BLANKENSHIP:
Book D Page 99 BLANKINSHIP, Alonzo(25) - Cyntha E. ELDER(21), Jan. 6, 1876, A. J. Bramlet J.P. at Eldorado, Both R-Eldorado Prec.


More About ALONZO BLANKENSHIP and CYNTHIA ELDER:
Marriage: 06 Jan 1876, ,Saline Co.,Illinois224
     
Children of CYNTHIA ELDER and ALONZO BLANKENSHIP are:
165. i.   BERTHA7 BLANKENSHIP, b. 07 Apr 1885, Eldorado, IL; d. 28 Apr 1969, Eldorado, Saline Co., IL.
166. ii.   MARY ANN BLANKENSHIP, b. 26 Sep 1876; d. 14 Jun 1953.
  iii.   MADISON BLANKENSHIP, b. Jul 1879; d. Unknown.
  More About MADISON BLANKENSHIP:
Census: 1880, Family 73 / Eldorado, Saline, IL
167. iv.   KELEROY BLANKENSHIP, b. Sep 1879; d. 1917.
  v.   GEORGE RILEY BLANKENSHIP, b. 10 Dec 1883, ,,Illinois; d. 27 Aug 1956, Eldorado, Saline, IL; m. ETTA PINKLETON, 02 Mar 1904, Raleigh, Saline County, Ilinois Book B Page 236225; b. Abt. 1883, ,,Kansas; d. Unknown.
  Notes for GEORGE RILEY BLANKENSHIP:
This may be the George Rowland Blankenship buried next to his parents in Wolf Creek Cemetery. Dates are 10 Dec 1883 - 27 Aug 1956

  More About GEORGE RILEY BLANKENSHIP:
Burial: Unknown, Wolf Creek Cemetery
Census: 1920, Age 56 Family 330, Eldorado, Saline CO., Illinois

  Notes for ETTA PINKLETON:
Ettie's brother Barney age 21 was living them in 1920 Eldorado.

  More About ETTA PINKLETON:
Census: 1920, Age 36 Family 330, Eldorado, Saline CO., Illinois
Residence: 1910, Living with Alonzo Blankenship

  More About GEORGE BLANKENSHIP and ETTA PINKLETON:
Marriage: 02 Mar 1904, Raleigh, Saline County, Ilinois Book B Page 236225
  vi.   BIRTHY BLANKENSHIP, b. Apr 1886; d. Unknown.
  More About BIRTHY BLANKENSHIP:
Census: 1900, HH 68 / Eldorado, Saline, IL

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