Pricie Blankenship
Picture of Pricie Blankenship with husband
Custer Kennedy,the children are Henry b.
abt 1910--Wilson ,b. abt. 1912 and daughter
Hilda Elizabeth Chafin b. September 27,1905
| PRICIE'S FIRST MARRIAGE TO ZION CHAFIN.PRICIE
MARRIED SECOND TO CUSTER KENNEDY/CANADY. PRICIE WAS KILLED WHEN A DYNAMITE CAP WHICH HAD BEEN LEFT IN THE COAL, EXPLODED IN THE FIREPLACE AS SHE WAS MAKING DINNER SHE WENT INTO THE BEDROOM,LAY DOWN AND DIED SOON AFTER. CUSTER'S MOTHER CAME TO CARE FOR THE 7 CHILDREN OF. PRICIE AND CUSTER. CUSTER DIED A MONTH LATER IN A MINING ACCIDENT WHEN A MULE IN THE COALTHE FOUR YOUNGEST BOYS AND TWO OLDEST GIRLS WERE SENT TO THE CHRISTIAN ORPHANS HOME IN AND WERE ADOPTED OUT. VIRGINA WHO WAS TWO MONTHS OLD WAS TO YOUNG TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE ORPHANAGE AND WAS RAISED BY HER AUNT MARY BLANKENSHIP CARY. PRICIE AND CUSTER ARE BURIED IN THE McCOY CEMETERY IN STRINGTOWN , KY. SOLOMAN AND ELIZA'S GRAVES ARE THERE ALSO. I SAW THEM YEARS AGO BUT WAS NOT ABLE TO DISCOVER THEM LAST SUMMER WHEN I VISITED. THEY ARE IN THE SAME ROW AS MY UNCLE AND HIS TWIN SONS. THE CEMETERY WAS VERY OVERGROWN AND I COULD NOT FIND THE TWINS MARKER EITHER . MINE WHERE HE WORKED CRUSHED HIM AGAINST THE TIMBERS HE DIED A WEEK LATER TWO OF THE CHILDREN ,LOIS WHO WAS 6 AND DAVID WHO WAS 3 AT THE TIME THEY WERE ADOPTED BY THE HUFF FAMILY IN TROY, INDIANA WRITTEN TO ME FROM BONNIE VARNEY THE GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF PRICIE. SUN 30 APRIL 2000 |
| Pricie 6 Blankenship,(Eliza 5 Vance,Richard
4 , Elizabeth 3 Abner 2 , Ephriam 1 ) was
born 1884 in Mingo Co. WVA,and died May 20,
1924 in Mingo Co. WVA.SHE Married (1) Custer
Kennedy/Canady.She married (2) Zion Chafin
Dec 17,1904 in Meadows,Mingo Co. WVA.He was
born January1885 in Logan Co. Va. and died
October 1905 in Mohawk,McDowell Co. WVA Children of PRICIE BLANKENSHIP and CUSTER are: i. HENRY10 KENNEDY, b. Private. ii. WILSON KENNEDY, b. Private. iii. JOHN KENNEDY, b. Private. iv. NOAH KENNEDY, b. Private. v. LOIS KENNEDY, b. Private; m. LLOYD HARRIE, Private; d. 1984. vi. DAVID KENNEDY, b. January 04, 1922, MINGO CO WV; d. September 17, 1993, Beaymont,texas. vii. VIRGINA KENNEDY, b. Private. viii. IDA KENNEDY, b. Private. Child of PRICIE BLANKENSHIP and ZION CHAFIN is: 15. ix. HILDA ELIZABETH10 CHAFIN, b. Private. Childrern's name sumitted by Judy Reilley ,Linda Adams,daughters of Noah Kennedy Picture and story about Pricie and Custer's death ,sumitted by Bonnie Varney great-Great granddaughter of Pricie Blankenship |
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