Biographical Sketch of John A. Blanchard, Greene County, Missouri, 
Center Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of Henry H. and Mary W. (Patton) Blanchard,
and was born in Logan County, Kentucky, December 7, 1836.  In 1839 his
parents moved to Greene County, Missouri and settled upon Leeper Pra-
irie, where John grew to manhood.  When he was twenty years of age he
began teaching school and followed that in connection with farming un-
til 1874.  In 1861 he enlisted in Capt. Campbell's company of Missouri
State Guards as orderly sergeant, and was at the battles of Dug Spring
and Wilson's Creek.  At the expiration of his term of enlistment he was
taken with typhoid fever, which disabled him for further service at the
time.  In February, 1862, he and his father started South in the rear
of Price's army.  They were overtaken upon the 12th of the month by 
Federal troops, who took his father out of the wagon and killed him.
He was sick in the wagon at the time.  He returned home with his fath-
ers body, and in 1863 moved to Boone County, Missouri, where he remain-
ed until 1865.  He then returned to this county, where he has remained
ever since.  He has been justice of the peace, and was county recorder
from 1874 to 1878.  Mr. Blanchard is a Mason, and a deacon and clerk of
the Baptist Church, of which he has been a member for twenty-seven 
years.  In 1865 he only had a wagon and team, and he now owns a finely
improved farm of one hundred and eighty acres.  He was married Septem-
ber 17, 1863, to Miss Cordelia D., daughter of Lewis F. and Sarah 
(Robinson) Tatum, of this county.

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