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Submitted: 1/11/12 • Approved: 1/12/12 • Last Updated: 8/26/12 • R634404-G634404-S3
March 19, 1860 - February 25, 1922
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday March 2, 1922
BLANKENSHIP, Dorcas Matilda - Dorcas Matilda Blankenship was born March 19, 1860. Died February 25, 1922, aged 61 years, 9 months and 6 days. She was born in Benton county and grew to womanhood in this neighborhood. She was united in marriage to J.N. Blankenship December 6, 1877 and to this union was born nine children, four sons and five daughters, all of whom are living except one daughter, Sarah, who was born July 24, 1896, died March 30, 1906. Mrs. Blankenship had been sick for several weeks and was taken to Great Bend, Kans. in hopes of restoring her health. All was done that loving hands could do but to no avail. She was brought from Great Bend, Kansas and interred in the Ruddick cemetery February 27, 1922. Bro. I.D. Ames conducted the funeral services. All join in extending heart-felt sympathy to the bereaved family.
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