Garvin County Obituaries - S.N. Blankenship

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            S.N. Blankenship Dies Friday, September 16

Funeral services were conducted for S.N. Blankenship Saturday, September 
17, 1938, at Klondike school house west of Pauls Valley. Samuel Newton 
Blankenship died September 16, 1938 at the family residence west of the 
city after a lingering illness of several years. He was 81 years and 5 
months of age. He was born April 16, 1857 in Louisiana. He was married 
to Hortense Crenshaw in 1873. to this union nine children, six boys and 
three girls were born. Two dying in infancy and one in service in France, 
and one, Mrs. J.E. Driskill of this city dying in 1932. There are four boys
 and one girl living. Samuel came to the state of Oklahoma in 1890 and moved 
to the Klondike community in 1899 where he lived until his death. He leaves 
to mourn his passing his wife, Hortense, four sons, Guy, Frank, Bailey, all 
of Pauls Valley and Bud Blankenship of New Mexico, one daughter, Mrs. Hal 
Russell also of Pauls Valley, twenty-four grandchildren and twenty-two great 
grandchildren. He was buried in the Klondike Cemetery with the Coonrod 
Funeral Home of Wynnewood in charge.