Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Blaney, Charles 1804 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

Charles Blaney, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Pennsylvania August 17, 
1804; is a son of John and Mary Blaney, natives of Pennsylvania and early 
residents of Licking County, Ohio; they were the parents of four children that 
grew up - George, Maria, Charles and Benjamin. Our subject received schooling 
in a pioneer cabin; he has always been a farmer. He was married, in 1833, to 
Rebecca Kimpton, the result being three children that attained their majority -
 Vincent, Benjamin and Mary; his wife died in 1873, and he has since kept 
house with his niece, Mrs. Mary Latta, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth COX; 
she was born in 1823, and had a like chance with Mr. B. in the pioneer 
schoolroom; she was married, in 1842, to John Latta, and has one child - Anna -
 living, of a large number. Mr. B. came to Illinois in 1865, and settled on 
the farm where he now resides, consisting of 160 acres, which he had under 
good cultivation; his two sons, Benjamin and Vincent, were in the late war. He 
votes the Republican ticket.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p85

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