The Greenville times., 1910-05-27

part of GreenvilIe is now situated,
which land he secured from the United
States government. He'engaged in cot
ton planting and land speculation, fol
lowing the government surveys.
He was born in WinnsbOrO, S. G.
His father, John Blanton, was a native
of Cumberland county, Virginia, from
which place he moved to WinnsborO,
S. c., where he married Miss Patsey
Whitaker. He then moved to Shelby
county, Kentucky, and engaged in
farming and stock raising. After some
time he sold out and moved to Missis-
sippi, settling below PettiguIf, now
Rodney, on the Mississippi river
William Whitaker BlantOn studied
under Keene O'Hara, a splendid Irish
teacher in Kentucky, prepared him
self for law and practiced his profes-
sion in Jefferson, Warren and other
counties, but in time abandoned the
law for planting and land speculation.
In 1918 he married Miss Harriet
Byron McAIlister, daughter of Capt.
John McAlIister, at the plantation
Open Woods, in Warren county. Of
ten children, only two survived to
manhood. DIR. Orville Martin BlantOn
and VIM. Campbell BIanton. The lat
ter served in Go. D of the Twenty
eighth Miss. cavalry, C. S. A. DR..
Orville BlantOn was at Vicksburg dur
ing the war, and was a volunteer sur
geon to the First Louisiana artillery.
stationed on TIE river front, Major
Harry Clinch commander. When Far
ragut's fleet ran by the city, Mai.
Gen. Martin Luther Smith noticed him
for services at the battery.
VIM. G. BIanton was owner of Green
way plantation, now divided into
park and fair grounds. Dr. OrvilIe
NJ. Blanton owned Belle Aire planta-
tiOn north of the city.
Mrs. Harriet Byron BIanton, after
wards Mrs. II. B. Theobald, owned sec
tion four, township eighteen, range
eight, west, now the center of Green
vile. DR.. o. NJ. Blanton married
Miss Martha Rebecca Smith. VIM. C.
Blanton married her sister, Miss Geo
rgianna Smith. VIM. w. BIanton
died in 1888. His widow married DR..
Samuel Theobald of Lexington, Ky.
Lake Washington Settlement.
Turnbull, 1926.
Frederick G. Turnbull came to Wash
ington county in 1926, settled on Lake
Washington and brought his family
He engaged largely in land speculation
In the late for+ies he sold to Wade
ana Christopher Hampton, the former
of Civil War fame. Frederick G.
Turnbull married Mary Fitzpatrick,
daughter of Col. Thos. Fitzpatrick.
Their daughter, Miss Gracia Turn
bull, was born at Linden plantation
on Lake Washington. She married
Maj. J. Floyd Walton of Natchez, and
had one child, Mrs. Claudia W. Til
ford.
Col. Fitzpatrick commanded the
squad of men which captured Aaron
Burr at the mouth of Coles Creek in
Jefferson county. Preference, Clai-
bOrne's History of Mississippi, Vol.
ID
The next settlers after Frederick
Turnbull were VIM. Drumgoul and VIM.
Eley.
Physicians.
About the year 1888, in the spring,
when the river was at the top of it's
banks, young man in a canoe landed
in front of Col. VIM. w. Blanton' s
home and requested to be entertained
for the night He stated that he was
a native of Pennsylvania, a graduate
of the medical department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and was look
ing for a location to practice his pro-
fession. Col Blanton invited him to
make his house his home and practice
there, as the neighborhood had no ply
sician. He was DR.. Samuel Reed
Dunn.
DIR. Edward Church came sometime |
He was a highly educated |
physician, and graduate of Hotel |
Dieu medical college of Paris, France
DR.. Philip Schuyler of Vermont, a |
nephew of Gov Schuyler of that state,