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.
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.
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