Ingham County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Blanchard, Ezra Guy 
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Cemetery:           Dubois
Name:               Ezra Guy Blanchard

Date Of Photograph: August 2007
Photo can be seen at:
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Side 1:
EZRA G.
BLANCHARD
1834-1900
At Rest

Side 2:
NELLIE N. SHERWOOD
1879 - 1899
Gone but not forgotten

Addtional Comments:

BLANCHARD, Ezra Guy
Ezra Guy Blanchard, born 1834 in Sodus, Wayne County, New York, was the son of Ezra and Dorcas A. (Decker) Blanchard
and brother to Mahala Jane (Blanchard) Phelps.  Ezra Guy was married to Marinda R. (Gilbert) Blanchard (on a
separate monument next to his) and the date of their marriage was 04/03/1864.  At the time of the wedding, Ezra was
30 and Marinda was 16.  The service was performed by Joseph Scudder, Justice of the Peace.  Isral Chapman and Miss
Jane Phelps were witnesses.  Ezra Guy and Marinda were the parents of Dora B., Lyman H., and Nellie N. (Blanchard)
Sherwood (all buried in DuBois; Nellie shares the monument with her father).

Ezra Guy Blanchard served in the Civil War, enlisting in “Company G, 12th Michigan Infantry March 13, 1865 at
Wheatfield for one year, age 31.  Mustered March 21, 1865.  Discharged at DeVall’s Bluff, Arkansas May 28, 1865.
 Present residence, Mason, Mich.” (G 12 M Inf, vol. 12, pg 17, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil
War 1861-1865.)  His death certificate states that he lived in Wheatfield Township and his date of death was
05/07/1900, aged 64y, 3m, 18d, as a result of heart disease.  The Ingham County Democrat, 05/10/1900, lists his date
of death as Sun. 05/06/1900, and the funeral service took place at DuBois School House on Tues. 05/08/1900 at 2:30
p.m.



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