GATES COUNTY, NC - OBITUARY - George Washington Blanchard, 1952.

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Suffolk News Herald - Nov. 17, 1952

"Funeral Service for George Washington Blanchard, 91. who died Sunday 
morning at 4 a.m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. T. Baggett, of 
Nansmond County, after a long illness, will be held tomorrow afternoon 
at 3 o'clock at the R. W. Baker Funeral Home with the Rev. J. Sydney 
Cobb pastor of the Great Fork Baptist Church conducting the services. 
Burial will follow in the Holly Lawn Cemetery.

He was the son of the late Paltire and Sarah Spivey Blanchard of Gates 
County, N.C. A retired sawyer, he was formerly connected with C. W. 
Evans Lumber Company of Edenton, N.C.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Martha Byrum Blanchard of Norfolk; six 
daughters; Mrs. C. J. Warren of Whaleyville; Mrs. J. L. Wood; Mrs. E. R. 
Ward; and Mrs. Baggett, all of Nansmond County; Mrs Edna Doughtie of 
Portsmouth and Mrs. L. H. Prescott, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; four 
sons, Ernest and G. W. Blanchard, both of Richmond; L.E. Blanchard; of 
Edenton, N.C., and Murray Blanchard, of Suffolk; 28 grandchildren , 15 
great grandchildren; a number of nieces and nephews."