Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blanchard, George W., 1952 

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GEORGE W. BLANCHARD 

  Funeral services for George Washington Blanchard, 91, who died Sunday 
morning at 4 a.m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.T. Baggett, of Nansemond 
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 [sic*] of 
Gates County, N.C.  A retired sawyer, he was formerly connected with the 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 Nansemond 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. 


George Washington BLANCHARD, retired sawyer, 
b. 9 Sep 1861, NC, d. 16 Nov 1952, at daughter's home, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Block I, Section 10*), Suffolk, 
   18 Nov 1952, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 273, Mon., Nov. 17, 1952, p. 2, 
   text posted with Find a Grave Memorial #66521582. 

*Additional information: 

Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Photos of his gravestones - added by cwellman - are also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #66521582.  One shows his parents as 
   Pallatiah & Mary. 

D.Cert. 26578 (Holy Neck #377) also gives son of Paltire & Sarah Spivey 
   Blanchard. 

His widow's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Mar. 9, 1961, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b452m1ob.txt 


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