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GUEST,John Garst | Origin Of John Henry--part TWO (241* d) | RE: Origin Of John Henry--part TWO | 19 Oct 10 |
William Turner Blankenship married, wife unknown, ca 1896; had a son, Clarence, ca 1897; and was blinded in an accidental dynamite explosion (dynamiting a tree stump) in 1897-98, when he was 21. The accident cost him his eyesight and his wife, according to recently obtained Blankenship family lore. |