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#14 -Chester Lee
BLANSIT
s/o #28 John Chambers BLANSIT & #29 Margaret GILL/McHUGH |
#15 -Erna Mabel ST.
CLAIR
d/o #30 John W. ST. CLAIR & #31 Mary Jane CRAIG |
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| nickname- | nickname-Mabel | ||
| Probable
Ethnicity:
German, English, Irish?, could be some French, some Cherokee/NA |
Probable
Ethnicity:
English, possible Cherokee |
| Married
27 Jan 1918 Taney Co. MO (see wedding picture and 60th anniversary picture) |
ca 1918 in Kansas |
| b 14 Jun 1900 | Taney Co. MO | b 23 Feb 1902 | Taney Co. MO |
| d 9 Mar 1979 | Taney Co. MO | d 29 May 1997 | Christian Co. MO |
| bur Mar 1979 | Schupbach Cemetery
Christian Co. MO |
bur 1 June 1997 | Schupbach Cemetery
Christian Co. MO |
| Hair: brown | Eyes: blue | Hair: brown | Eyes: brown |
| Height: | Weight: thin | Height: | Weight: |
| Children |
| Name, Date of birth | Place of birth/death | Definite Marriage |
| Ernest R.
b 16 Nov 1919 d 14 May 1977 |
Muncie, Wyandotte Co. KS Muncie, Wyandotte Co. KS |
Louise VAUGHN private |
| #7 Ines Magdalene
(pictures) b 21 Dec 1921 d 25 Dec 1994 |
Bluff, Taney Co. MO
Taney Co. MO |
#6 Floyd George HARRIS private |
| Reva Jean
b 24 Sep 1924 d 1 Mar 1991 |
Wyandotte Co. KS KS |
Eugene MOORE private |
| What We Know: |
| Greg is one of the lucky ones.
He got to live with his great-grandparents for a while; he lived near them
nearly all of his life.
Chester and Mabel went to the Kansas City area prior to 1920, like a lot of folks in Taney Co. did; to make a living. Chester worked in construction, drove a dump truck, and during WWII, he worked at Fairfax in the river bottoms, building North American B25 Mitchell Bombers, a medium bomber, the planes used in the The Doolittle Tokyo Raid. They lived in Muncie, Turner, Edwardsville, Argentine--all small towns or neighborhoods that are now encompassed by Kansas City, KS. They probably knew Greg's SHEETS side long before his parents married; and it's likely they knew the HARRIS side, who lived in Muncie what what we call a "family compound", before Ines married Greg's grandpa. They may even have known my RADLOFF family. They moved back to Taney County in the early 1960s, living in a small house near the farm that Ines and Floyd purchased just south of the Taney/Christian Co. line. The address for this "neck of the woods," after the Day post office closed, was Chesnutridge. That post office was in Christian County, but before Hwy 65 and some other roads were built, it was much easier to get to Chestnutridge than Walnut Shade. It was all ridge road to Chestnutridge, whereas Bull and Bear Creek often flooded the road (the old Springfield-Harrison route) to Walnut Shade. Greg and I got together just a few weeks before Mabel passed away, and I never got to meet her. But in her later years, she lived in a small house on Ines and Floyd's farm, and Greg's children knew her well. How many children get the chance to know their great-great grandparents? Not many. It is a family story how Chester and Mabel would go to Springfield and sit at the Battlefield Mall, just to watch the people walking by. Both were deeply religious--Mabel was a teacher at the Oak Ridge Full Gospel Church. Not long ago, I was giving a genealogy lesson on 4-generation charts to Brett (our youngest son) and his Cub Scout Den; the den mother had been in Mabel's Sunday School class. I'm still digging for pictures of this bunch. But there's a good one, below. And I'll put more up as I get them. |
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| Clockwise, starting top left: Reva Blansit Moore , Eugene (Jack) Moore, Chester Blansit, Larry Moore, Mabel St. Clair Blansit, Mary Louise Blansit, Ines Blansit Harris; girl on far right is Patty Blansit,Tommy Blansit, Louise Vaughn Blansit holding Greg Sheets, Sharlene Harris Sheets; boy in front of Chester is Curtis Moore; girl on Louise's lap is Rebecca Moore. |
| More of Chester and Mabel's family pictures |
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Father
To Chester's Mother |
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