#57 -Eliza Jane
LEE
d/o #114 Allen LEE & #115 Nancy HINDER/HIDER |
nickname
Liza Jane |
Children with #56 Clement Clay BLANSIT William Allen "Son" or
James Newton "Newt"
Clement Clay "CC" or "Pete"
#28
John Chambers
America Lyda "Aunt Lyde"
Elizabeth Jane
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Children with
Margaret Ella
Infant son
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b 25 Aug 1832 | Bledsoe Co. TN |
m 1st
Clement BLANSIT
12 Jan 1849 2nd Leander DEAN 24 Jul 1864 3rd Henry HOWARD bet 1874-1876 4th William J. GLOVER 20 Feb 1887 |
De Kalb Co. AL Jackson Co. AL some place in MO Taney Co. MO |
d 11 Oct 1916 | Taney Co. MO |
bur 12/13
Oct 1916
beside Leander, 2nd husband |
Walnut
Shade Cemetery
Taney County, MO |
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Probable
Ethnicity:
possibly Cherokee, probably English ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War |
What we know: |
I like her. She fascinates
me, mystifies me, gets me aggravated because there's so little we really
know. She must've been one heckuva woman, in the most "WOW-za!" kind
of way. She was Greg's 3x great-grandmother, and while I wouldn't
trade any of mine--I would've like to've at least known her. Look
at that hat!
Greg saw a picture of her when he was young, and asked his grandmother, Liza Jane's g-grandddaughter Ines BLANSIT HARRIS, "Who's that Indian woman?" If there is Indian heritage here, it lies in the LEE line, for the Blansits are most likely of French Hugenot descent. Clement/Clemuel--it is said he anglicized his name--was born 20 Dec 1828 GA, and died 11 Nov 1862 in De Kalb Co. AL. Although the story was that he was a soldier for the Confederacy, nothing can be found about that. Instead, we believe he died from drinking contaminated water. Daughter Elizabeth was born posthumously. Eliza Jane took her family to Jackson Co. AL, right in the corner against TN and GA, after Clement's death. She met Leander, most likely through her father, and they were married "on base," or whatever the equivalent was in those war years. After Leander was mustered out, they went to his family in IN, and then followed her sister Lucy's family to Taney Co. MO around 1868. They lived next to Lucy and her husband, Wm. Jasper HOLLOWAY in the 1870 census, not far from the MEADOWS and other Bluff/Walnut Shade families. Leander was b ca 1841 in TN; he was 9 years younger than Liza Jane. Leander was quite ill after his discharge--he had the measles during the war, and suffered from continuous weakness and other illnesses until his death in Oct 1873. He was a corporal in Co. C, 1st TN & AL Independent Vidette Cavalry. According to the pension application Eliza Jane filed in the late 1890s, he never was able to do a full day's work on their farm in Taney Co. and had to hire workers. By 1876, Eliza Jane married Henry HOWARD. These are what I call her "mystery" years, for they are in the 1876 Greene Co. MO Special Census and in the 1880 Federal Census for Greene Co. However, we can't find a marriage, a divorce, or a grave for Henry. In the 1880, he is listed as being 36 to Eliza Jane's 45 (she was actually almost 48), another younger man she apparently married. He has children Thomas 11, James 9, and Andy 7; they are not Eliza Jane's. Her 2 daughters Elizabeth and "Ella" are living with them; son Pete is next door, with his own wife and daughter. Pete BLANSIT and Henry HOWARD were both teamsters, according to the 1880 census. Despite family legend to the contrary, Eliza Jane may have left her two oldest sons with her aunt Nancy LEE BEENE in AL during the 1860s, but the 1880 Taney Co. Census shows Newt living on what was apparently Liza Jane and Leander's farm. There was some knowledge in the MO descendants about these two, for William was known "down the line" (Ines Blansit Harris' notes) as "Son" or "Uncle Son"; James Newton was "Newt". There are no stories about any later visits, so there must have been correspondence between siblings, or Eliza Jane and her children, throughout the years. Newt was married to a Nancy A. b ca 1863 AL, and they have a 3 year old daughter, America J. b in AL, in that 1880 Census from Taney Co. MO. My guess is that they were married in AL, as well. Nancy's surname may have been PAINTER. Whether divorced or widowed a 3rd time, Eliza Jane was back in Taney County by 1887, when she married William J. GLOVER. He was b ca 1824 TN d 12 Aug 1905 Taney Co., and is buried in the Walnut Shade Cemetery. This marriage was short-lived, apparently. Eliza Jane, in her pension application based on Leander's service, admits to the marriage, but said that "he had been abusive" and she had to leave. She claims she had been cleaning houses for income, but both of her arms had been broken during the marriage. She could no longer clean houses, and no one was going to hire "an old woman"--she was 68--to clean their house when they could find a younger person for the job. In 1910, she is living with her grandson, Jefferson Siegel BLANSIT, and his wife, Lillie ESTEP. There doesn't seem to have been a divorce. She is called "Granny Glover" by her descendants. Although her tombstone states her year of death as 1917, one of Greg's cousins acquired her death certificate. It shows her year of death to be 1916. Several descendants claim that she was a midwife, as well. She outlived at least 3 husbands, 2 of which were considerably younger than her. Heckuva woman, indeed. |
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