Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blanchard, Charles, 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ CHARLES BLANCHARD DEAD. Suffolk, Va., March 16. - Charles Blanchard of Suffolk died today about twenty miles from Bedford City, Va., where he had gone in search of health. He had been a sufferer from tuberculosis for some months. The body will be brought here for burial. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. J.E. Saunders, Mrs. Jesse H. Eason, Edward, Archie and James Blanchard. He also leaves his father, J.W. Blanchard. The funeral will take place at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning from the Suffolk Christian church. He was 23 years old. Charles "Charlie" BLANCHARD, b. Dec 1884, NC, d. 16 Mar 1908, ca. 20 mi. from Bedford City, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 18 Mar 1908, "Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Vol. 26, No. 66, Tues., Mar. 17, 1908, p. 7 *Additional information: Unmarked? Added to the Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt No Find a Grave Memorial His parents, James Welcome & Alice Montgomery (LASSITER) BLANCHARD, are also buried there. Find a Grave Memorial #191444574 gives his father as Jamerson. Birthdate from the 1900 Census - Cypress Dist., Nansemond Co. His mother's obit ("Christian Sun," Oct. 2, 1907, p. 5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b452a1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b452c2ob.txt