Coosa County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Blankenship, Reuben 
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Cemetery:           Poplar Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Located Near Hanover, Coosa Co. AL
Name:               Reuben Blankenship

Date Of Photograph: July 24, 2006
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BLANKENSHIP, REUBEN, aged 69, and a resident of Shelby county; private 
Virginia Militia; enrolled on May 24, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $23.31 - 
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. Xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 
1833-34. He resided in Coosa County, June 1, 1840, aged 73 - Census of 
Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. He was buried at Poplar Springs Church in that 
county. - D. B. Oden, of Childersburg, Ala., in Transactions of the Alabama 
Historical Society, Vol. iv, p. 533." (1) (1) Revolutionary Soldiers in 
Alabama Compiled by Thomas M. Owen, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.), 
p. 288.

Additional Comments:
One source has his birth place as in Chesterfield Co., VA and his death date 
as 27 OCT 1850 in Coosa Co., AL. Some people I have spoken with said he is 
buried in the Old Poplar Springs Cemetery in the woods near an open field. I 
have been to that cemtery and it is hard to get there. There are a few 
headstones with several graves with no headstones. There was no headstone with 
his name on it. 

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