Sarah Ann McKENZIE

  Noted events in her life were:

• Cemetery: S. L. BLANTON CEMETERY, 1941, Floyd County, KY. 2 mile from 172 on Stone Coal , KY

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BLANTON, Sarah Ann (McKenzie) 80 Aug.05 1860 May 01 1941 (Online OBITUARY <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ejccem/OBIT-3/BLANTON,SarahA.html>)

• Obituary: Paintsville Herald, 1941, Volga, KY. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jccem/OBIT-3/BLANTON,SarahA.html

8 May 1941
SARAH A BLANTON

MOTHER OF
11 CHILDREN
DIED MAY 1

Prominent Volga Woman
Passes At Age
of 80

Mrs. Sarah A. Blanton, age 80 years, died at her home at Volga on
Thursdat, May 1, after an illness of six weeks following a stroke.
She was the widow of the late Squire S. L. Blanton and one of the
best loved and prominent women of her section of the county.

She was a daughter of the late Lafayette and Mary Sparks. She was
the mother of 11 children, all of whom are living and prominent
citizens of this section.

The children are: George, Albert, William, John F., Oliver and
Kendrick Blanton, Mrs. May Salyer and Mrs. Virgie Williams, all of
Volga; Mrs. Delia Lemaster, Portsmouth, Ohio, and Mrs. Virgil
Butler, of Paintsville.

Mrs. Blanton was a member of the Fish Trap United Baptist Church.

Funeral rites were conducted at the home Friday, May 1, by Rev.
Dennis Williams and Rev. Lonza Reed.

Burial in the home cemetery at Volga.

Paintsville Herald
Thursday
5-8-1941
NOTE: This obituary is in error in the respect that Sarah & S.L.
Blanton had given birth to 14 children eight boys & six
girls.

Sarah married Squire Stanford Lee "S.L." BLANTON, son of James Henry BLANTON and Mary Ann "Polly" DAVIS. (Squire Stanford Lee "S.L." BLANTON was born on 29 Jan 1858 and died on 25 Jan 1939 in KY.)