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Note: 1.Burial notice from Treasurer of Clear Creek Cem. in Springfield, MO. stating
that he is buried there.
2. Marriage record
3. From "The History of Greene County, Missouri. St. Louis, MO, Western
Historical Company. 1883 Pg. 406-7. "On the night of the 12th of Feb,
1862,Price's army began to leave Springfield, taking the Cassville road. The
movement was
continued until the 13th, being delayed somewhat. As the troops marched away
there were some tears shed by the fair female Confederates, many of whom had a
husband, a brother, or a sweetheart in the ranks bound for Dixie, with a chance
of never returning. The weather was foul and not at all comfortable for
travel, but the Federal army was in sight, and who should be reported in the
lead but Sigel-the same Sigel, of familiar memory, whom some of Price's men
had met at Carhtage, whom others had met at Wilson's Creek, and who for the
third time was coming to Greene County. The march of the rear guard was
accelerated somewhat by the knowledge that not only was there a force of
blue-coated cavalry bearing down the wire road directly from Marshfield, but on
either flank detachments were hovering, to come together, like the jaws of a
trap, when the opporunity presented itself, and enclose whatever was between
them. And so passed away the army under the Confederate flag, a banner
destined to never again wave in triumph over the soil of Greene County. As
stated, many citizens of Confederate proclivities followed Price's army. Among these was the family of Mr. Blanchard, of the western part of the county. The Federal advance overtook the wagon in which were Mr. Blanchard, and his son, John A. Blanchard, who had been orderly sergeant of Campbell's company. The Federals took Mr. Blanchard, senior, out of his wagon, in which were a gun and a revolver, carried him a few yards from the road and shot him. It was stated that Mr. Blanchard was killed for refusing to give up his revolver, which, the soldiers
said, he pointed at them, threatening to shoot. It is altogether probable, however, that Mr. Blanchard was murdered without sufficient excuse."
The elder Mr. Blanchard of this story, is Henry Hudson Blanchard, of Logan Co. KY.
4. Blanchard, Henry H. is found in pg. 324 Greene Co. MO. U.S. Census 1850.
5. Blanchard, Henry Hudson is buried in Sec#1, Row#7 of Clear Creek Cem. Greene
Co. MO.
6. Family found in "Morley + Blanchard Families" 1998 Pg, 212
7. Marriage certificate,
8. Henry Blanchard purchased land in Greene Co. MO. Dec 1854,
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