Navorska tree » Dewitt Clinton Blanchard (1839-1929)

Personal data Dewitt Clinton Blanchard 

  • He was born on October 2, 1839 in somewhere in VT.
  • He died on January 15, 1929 in Brownington, Henry Co., MO, he was 89 years old.
  • He is buried on January 16, 1929 in Maplewood Cem., Osage Twp., Henry Co., MO.
  • This information was last updated on April 12, 2024.

Household of Dewitt Clinton Blanchard

He is married to Susan Catharine Schlappi.

They got married on November 13, 1859 at Ferris, Montcalm Co., MI, he was 20 years old.

Dewitt C. Blanchard oo Susan Catharine Schlappi

Marriage source: Driscoll, Linda, Schlaeppi/Salisberry FGS, (Salt Lake City UT, L.D., iv May MCMXCIX). <>

Child(ren):

  1. Peter Blanchard  ± 1862-????
  2. George A. Blanchard  1864-1915 
  4. Augustus A. Blanchard  1868-???? 
  5. Nora Blanchard  1872-????
  6. John Blanchard  1876-1890
  8. Harvey D. Blanchard  1882-????


Notes about Dewitt Clinton Blanchard

Dewitt Clinton Blanchard

Sources: Author: Driscoll, Linda, Schlaeppi/Salisberry FGS, (Salt Lake City UT, L.D., xxiv May MCMXCIX) for name; circa yob = 1840.

Driscoll, Linda, Blanchard/Schlappi FGS, (Salt Lake City UT, L.D., xxiv May MCMXCIX) for state of birth.

Blanchard, De Will C., Declaration for Invalid Pension, (Brownington, Henry Co., MO, D.C.B., 9Jun1892)

'... DeWitt C. Blanchard, aged 52 years, a resident of Brownington, in the county of Henry ... Missouri ... enrolled on the 10th day of February, 1865, in 5th Michigan Vol' Cavalry a private ... That he is unable to earn a support bymanual labor by reason of an affection of left lung caused from Pneumonia contracted while on duty in the service ... Witnesses 1. C. Y. McDonald 2. Elias Cottrill ... C. Y. McDonald ... Elias Cottrill residing at Brownington Mo ...acquaintance with him for 21 years and 21 years, respectively ...'

Service record, (Washington DC, War Dept, 22 July 1892)

'...Dewit C Blanchard Co E 5 Mich Cav ... was enrolled 10 Feb 1865, and Deserted as put Sept 21, 1865 as of __ 1 Mich Cav to which transferred ...'

From the testimony of his neighbors, it would seem De Witt was a resident of Brownington MO for 21 years - 1871.

Need to check the 1880 Brownington, Henry Co., MO census.

Henry Co., MO Web site, Maplewood Cemetery Recs., read xx Jun MM

'BLANCHARD, DeWitt C. - b: Oct 2 1839 - d: Jan 15 1929 BLANCHARD, George A. - b: Jan 13 1864 - d: Nov 9 1915 - sp: M. Belle GOLDEN BLANCHARD, M Belle GOLDEN - b: Sep 29 1875 - d: Apr 19 1954 - dau of Daniel S. & Virginia A. DORMAN GOLDEN - sp: George A. BLANCHARD BLANCHARD, Unknown - b: Oct 13 1876 - d: Oct 6 1890'

Henry Co., MO Web Site, Charles A. Rickett Ledger, undertaker, (Brownington MO, HCMGS, read xx July MM)

'BLANCHARD, D. C. Date of Burial: Jan 16 1929 Place of death: Brownington, MO Undertaker: Charles A. Rickett'

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCZ2-1K6
<>

Do you have supplementary information, corrections or questions with regards to Dewitt Clinton Blanchard?
The author of this publication would love to hear from you!

Ancestors (and descendant) of Dewitt Clinton Blanchard


With Quick Search you can search by name, first name followed by a last name. You type in a few letters (at least 3) and a list of personal names within this publication will immediately appear. The more characters you enter the more specific the results. Click on a person's name to go to that person's page.

  • You can enter text in lowercase or uppercase.
  • If you are not sure about the first name or exact spelling, you can use an asterisk (*). Example: "*ornelis de b*r" finds both "cornelis de boer" and "kornelis de buur".
  • It is not possible to enter charachters outside the standard alphabet (so no diacritic characters like ö and é).


Visualize another relationship

The data shown has no sources.

Historical events

Birthday October 2, 1839

  • The temperature on October 2, 1839 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt weerlicht. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
    • June 14 » Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
    • July 3 » The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
    • September 4 » Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
    • November 17 » Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.
    • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.

Day of marriage November 13, 1859

  • The temperature on November 13, 1859 was about -2.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
  • In the year 1859: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • February 14 » Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
    • April 4 » Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
    • May 31 » The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
    • June 28 » The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
    • August 28 » The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
    • November 24 » Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

Day of death January 15, 1929

  • The temperature on January 15, 1929 was between -1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
    • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
    • May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
    • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
    • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
    • October 18 » The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.

Day of burial January 16, 1929

  • The temperature on January 16, 1929 was between -6.9 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -4.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • February 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
    • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
    • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
    • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
    • December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
    • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


About the surname Blanchard


The Navorska tree publication was prepared by .contact the author
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin:
David Allen Navorska, "Navorska tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/navorska-tree/I13155.php : accessed May 1, 2025), "Dewitt Clinton Blanchard (1839-1929)".