The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-11-05

noney ne subscribed Tor his hrSt news
paper, it being the Republican Smoky
Hill Union. In 1854 he was married
and that year the indians became
quite bold, committing numerous de-
predations. His brother, Andrew
Blanchett, who had meanwhile enter
ed the government service was in
charge of wagon trains, which then car
r1ed the goods of the east over the old
trails and brought back the produc-
tlons of the wonderful west. In the
year Of 1854 he was killed in fight
with the Indians near Dry Route creek
IN Ford county. He had charge of a
wagon train and with him were
Thomas and Jerry Field, two well
known early day Kansas. His wagon
was separated from the train which
contained 86 wagons and 100 people.
They were attacked by 800 Comanche
Indians. Blanchett was killed being
shot and lane ed to death while he was
engaged in killing seven redskins.
His body was buried in gun box near
the trail.
Meanwhile John r. Blanchett, who
had left Illinois in 1859 had settled at
Morrill,, in Brown county, had enlisted
in 1863 in the Union army, where he
served until the close of the war. After
the war he returned to Brown county
and remains there having retired from
a ctive life in April of this year. He
still owns considerable property there.
Another member of the Blanchett
family who came to Kansas in the
early days is Mary Ceasera, who mar
ried before she left her Illinois home
Edmond Beaubien. With her husband
she settled in 1871 at Maple Hill,
Wabaunsee county, Kan. She was
left widow in January 1897, and she
still resides at Maple Hill, within a
mile of the farm which she and her
husband ,purhased in 1871.
Another sister who died. few years
ago was represented at the family re-
union by her daughter who is now
Mrs. Henrietta Coulter of st. Louis.
The deceased sister was a Mrs. Phil
onese Frigon, who died few years
ago at Lexington, Okla. For many
years she lived in Kansas, going to
Oklahoma with her family 20 syears
ago. Beside the daughter present, two
other daughters survive her.
The third sister was Mrs. Anna Nc
Naspy and until few years ago, she
lived near Herington. She was we'll
known in this section of this state.
The family moved to Louisiana and
her death occurred there.
Cyrus Samuel Blanchett, who now
resides in Baraboo, Wis, spent some
time in Kansas. He is now an en-
ployee of the Chicago & Northwestern
rail road, and will be retired on pen
sion within few years. After his SER
vice in the war of '61 and '65 he came
to Kansas and settled on Lyon creek
near the farm of his brother, A. D.
Blanchett. He lived there a few years
and finally lost everything in prairie
fire and in 1875 he took up railroad
work, in which he has continued since
that time. His Kansas experience is
the only time he has tried to farm and
he declares railroad work is the best of
the two as an occupation.
Robert r. Blanchett, who is now a
farmer in Harper county, near Norris,
came to Kansas in 1871. He took a
claim in Mcpherson county in 1874
and the grasshoppers took his crop the
first year. In 1879 he lost all in a
prairie fire and took up blacksmith
ing. He worked at his trade until
compelled by partial paralysis of the
hands, due to rheumatism, he became
unable to hold his hammer. He then
began buying and selling cattle. In
1892 he moved to Monroe county and
four years later ag ain took up black
smithing at Ford, Kan. In 1898 he
entered livery business and followed
it until this year when he purchased
his Harper county farm. This finishes
the Kansas contingent of the family.
There are two members from New
York, however, Ewho attended the
reunion; one Of whom visited Kansas
in the early seventies.
Clement T, ,Blanchett is now located
at Philmont, N.sY., where he has been
| located since 1895. He visited Kansas in
the early days and of course on his re-
cent trip marveled at the wonderful
growth of the state. He is compiling q
history OF the family now and has
traced the family name back to the
ninth century. He received his edu-
( cation at the ST. SAVERS college, St
Anne, ILL.,; Emmanuel Hall,
Chicago, and the Nashotah
Theological Seminary of Wisconsin
1 rrroduatoI 1912 ov1G