WALTER BLANTON
  1946
   
DEATH TAKES NATIVE MAN
  
Walter Blanton Is Accident Victim
  
Walter Blanton, 56, native of this county, died Tuesday at 11 p.m. at
his home in Kermit, West Virginia.
  
His death was caused by complications from a broken shoulder which he
sustained in a fall from a drilling machine on which he had been
working. His condition apparently was improving until a few hours
before his death.
  
Mr. Blanton was the son of James M. and Sarah McCarty Blanton. He was
married to Sally Prichard on November 14, 1907.
  
Surviving besides his widow are five children, James Morrison of
Kermit, W. Va.; Dixie, Oil Springs, Ollie, Staffordsville, Mabel,
Dayton, Ohio, Monnie, Galveston, Texas, eleven grandchildren, also
one brother, Kendrick, Kenwood, two sisters, Mrs. Laura Lemaster,
Win, and Mrs. Virgie Cullett, Red Bush and a host of relatives and
friends.
  
Funeral services were held on Friday at the Old Union Church at
Staffordsville by Rev. Lonza Reed and F. F. Riggsby of Paintsville,
and Rev. Harlan Montgomery of Winchester.
  
Burial was made in the J. W. Jaynes Cemetery near the mouth of Mud
Lick under the direction of the Jones Funeral Home.
  
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
02-28-1946
     
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