BLANTON INTRODUCTORY OUTLINE

1.

Reuben Blanton married Martha Johnson and they had six children including Lewis (1785—1862)

2.

Lewis Blanton m. Frances Hester (b.1790); they had 11 children including Edmund.

(William Tate Jr. had a daughter named Delilah with his wife Mary.)

3.

Edmund Blanton (1806-1881) married Delilah Tate (1805-1880).  They had 15 children, five of whom died in the Civil War.  One of these was William Newton, d.11/3/1863.

(Other Tates married other Blantons, check the data.)

4.

Wm. Newton Blanton m. Nancy Allen (1832-1912) in 1852; they had three children, one of whom was John Allen Blanton, all born < 1863. 

(The family moved to Choctaw County, Mississippi, but apparently Nancy and the three kids spent the war years in Gaffney SC with Wm. Newton’s parents Edmund and Delilah Tate Blanton.  There are copies of letters from Wm to Nancy, and a photo of him in his Confederate uniform.

Sometime before 1870 (after William Newton died in the war in 1863) Nancy Allen Blanton met and married Perry Moore, ‘an American Indian’ (b.1830 in Alabama) and they lived in ‘the Indian Territory’.  Also < 1870 John Allen and his sisters left OK with their mother Nancy and Mr. Moore and settled in the Rockwall area of TX.) 

5.

In 1880 John Allen owned land in the area (Rockwall Kaufman County TX).  He married Mary Fagan and had two children while in TX, William Thomas and May Louise. 

(They returned to OK where Mary Fagan Blanton and a third child died. 

John Allen Blanton and the two children, William Thomas and May Louise, went back to TX and again settled in the Rockwall (Forney) area.)

John Allen Blanton married second a niece of (his deceased wife) Mary’s, Josephine B. Styles and they had three children.

(The family moved back to OK and returned again to TX < 12/24/1895 where they had three more children at ‘the old home place’ in the Warsaw Community of Kaufman County TX.)

Josie died of TB in 1905 at the age of 33.

John Allen Blanton died 10/11/1927 and the land was divided among the living children.

6.

William Thomas Blanton (7/18/1881-7/3/1940), son of John Allen Blanton (12/24/1855-10/11/1927) and Mary Fagan Blanton (9/3/26-1884) married Mary Addie Kidd in 1907.  They had ten children, including Riley Eugene (Bill) Blanton (7/2/1910-12/12/1949).

7.

Riley Eugene Blanton married Johnnie Lee Duran (3/6/1918---) on 11/1/1936.  They had five children including Wauna Lee Blanton. 

8.

Wauna Lee Blanton (b. 11/26/1937) married Robert Samuel Branson (b, 3/3/33) on 9/3/1955.  They had four daughters – Beverly Ann(10/56, TX), Shiela Lynnett(4/58, TX), Deronda Gail(9/59, TX), and Mary Louise(7/63, AK).