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Note: 1. Blanchard, J.A. is found in pg. 186 Greene Co. MO. U.S. Census 1880, in the Center Township. It shows that John and Cordelia have a niece, V. M. Tatum, living with them. She was 18 at the time.
2. Ref#4. Pg. 650. A paragraph reads, "John A. Blanchard. This gentle man is
the
son of Henry H. and Mary W. (Patton) Blanchard, and was born in Logan County,
Kentucky, December 7, 1836. In 1839 his parents moved to Greene Co., MO., and
settled upon Leeper Prairie, where John grew to manhood. When he was twenty
years of age he began teaching school and followed that in connection with
farming until 1874. In 1861 he enlisted in Capt. Campbell's company of
Missouri State Guards as orderly sergeant, and was at the battles of Dug Spring
and Wilson's Creek. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he was taken
with typhoid fever, which disabled him for further service at the time. In
February, 1862, he and his father started south in the rear of Price's army.
They were overtaken upon the 12th of that month by Federal troops, who took his
father out of the wagon and killed him. He was sick in the wagon at the time.
He returned home with his father's body, and in 1863 moved to Boone County, MO. where he remained until 1865. He then returned to this county, where he has remained ever since. He has been justice of the peace, and was county recorder from 1874 to 1878. Mr. Blanchard was a Mason, and a deacon and clerk of the Baptist church, of which he has been a member for twenty-seven years. In 1865 he only had a wagon and team, and he now owns a finely improved farm of
one-hundred and eighty acres. He was married September 17, 1863, to Miss
Cordelia D., daughter of Lewis F. and Sarah (Robinson) Tatum of this county."
3. Blanchard, John A. is found in pg. 324 Greene Co. U.S. Census 1850.
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