Obediah Blanton (1765 - abt. 1845)

Born 1765 in Brunswick, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Green) Blanton — married about 1796 in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States

Husband of Judith Warden — married 21 Dec 1823 in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died about 1845 at about age 80 in Burke, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

History of the Wilson Newton Blanton Family Copied from pages 292-293 out of The Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri Compiled by Howard L. Conard and published in 1901 By the Southern History Company of New York, Louisville and St. Louis Blanton, Wilson N. farmer and mine owner was born in Sevier County, Tennessee June 4, 1840. He was the son of Gazzaway and Mary Baker Blanton both of whom were natives of Burke County, North Carolina. Obidah Blanton grandfather of Wilson Newton Blanton was born in Virginia and removed from that state to North Carolina in his early manhood. There he married Betsy Green and they reared a family of four children. This ancestor of Mr. Blanton was a soldier in the War of 1812 and fount under General Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. He was a planter and slave owner in North Carolina and lived to be eighty years of age. The great-great grandfather of Wilson Newton Blanton was William Blanton, a Virginia planter who was a member of Washington’s Body Guard during the War of the Revolution. Gazzaway Blanton removed with his wife Mary (Baker) and their three children from North Carolina to Sevier County, Tennessee and their twelve children grew to maturity in that state. He was a successful planter and a man of affairs and during the Civil War served for a short time under Col. John C. Vaughn in the Confederate Army. Retiring from the army on account of ill health. His place in the ranks was taken by his son John A. Blanton. Both he and his wife were members of the Missionary Baptist Church and were much esteemed in the community in which they lived. Gazzaway Blanton died at the age of 83 and his wife at the age of 60. Their son Wilson Newton Blanton was educated in the public schools of Tennessee and had just attained his majority when the Civil War began. Enlisting in the First Regiment of Arkansas Volunteers, Commanded by Col. Patrick R. Clairborne, of the Confederate States Army, he served for two years, most of the time as a noncommissioned officer. He was in the Battles of Shiloh, Richmond, and Perryville, Kentucky. In 1863, he returned to his home in Tennessee and engaged in farming until the fall of 1869. Meantime, he had married Elizabeth Adeline Cass daughter of J.M. (James Melmurth) Cass and Martha (Martha Jane Ryan), July 2, 1863, and in November of 1869 removed with his family to Morris County, Kansas. A year later, he established his home in Webster County, Missouri where he devoted two years to agricultural pursuits. He then went to Benton County, Arkansas and continued farming there until 1876. He moved to Joplin, Missouri the year following. He embarked in a mining enterprise at Duenweg. He also became interested in merchandising and in 1882 removed to Webb City. For two years thereafter he conducted mining operations from that place and then removed to Carterville, which has since been his place of residence. During the years of 1888-1890 he was interested with his brother-in-law, A. A. Cass in mining enterprises at Carterville and in 1890 he opened, on which is known as the “Tracy Land” one of the riches mines in the district. These mines were operated for several years.

• 1800 - Morgan, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
• 1810 - Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
• 1820 - Burke, North Carolina, United States
• 1830 - Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
• 1840 - Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
• 1850 - McDowell, North Carolina, United States

Sources

• Copied from pages 292-293 out of The Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Compiled by Howard L. Conard and published in 1901 By the Southern History Company of New York, Louisville and St. Louis
• Source: S1550092093 Repository: #R-996401585 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=75199905&pid=143
• Repository: R-996401585 Ancestry.com
• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRW-4VM : accessed 6 May 2019), Obediah Blanton, Morgan, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 99, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 33; FHL microfilm 337,909.
• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL9-FFC : accessed 6 May 2019), Obediah Blanton, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 351, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 42; FHL microfilm 337,915.
• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLX-7C9 : accessed 6 May 2019), Obediah Blanton, Burke, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 55, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 83; FHL microfilm 162,799.
• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP6-SFC : 29 July 2017), Obediah Blanton, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States; citing 495, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 124; FHL microfilm 18,090.
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBQ-QLS : 16 August 2017), O Blanton, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 262, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 370; FHL microfilm 18,097.
• "United States Census, 1840," (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1655883&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60548)
• "United States Census, 1850," (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=12842761), Obadiah Blanton, Age: 72, Birth Year: abt 1778 Birthplace: North Carolina, Year: 1850; Census Place: McDowell, North Carolina; Roll: M432_636; Page: 310B; Image: 255