COFFEYVILLE, KS — Mrs. Blanche Grace Bradford died at her home here Monday evening at 8:15 following an illness of several months.
Residents of Coffeyville, Kansas the past four years, the Bradfords lived in Chanute, KS, 15 years previously. Mr. Bradford was a wholesale grocery salesman in Chanute.
Born in Allen Co, Kansas, July 30, 1894,
She was married to Benjamin "Ben" Garrison Bradford in December, 1922.
Mrs. Bradford was a member of the Coffeyville Presbyterian church.
Survivors are her husband; two sisters, Mrs. A.A. Ackerman, of Chanute, KS, and Mrs. A.F. Ackerman, of Aurora, MO; and three brothers, Clyde H. Stanley, of Kansas City, KS, Forest M. Stanley, of Vallejo, CA, and Robert Stanley, of Oakland, CA.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Skinner funeral chapel here. The Rev. Martin Klingberg, pastor of the Nowata, Oklahoma Presbyterian church, assisted by the Rev. Robert W. Scott, of Coffeyville, will be in charge.
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My Great Aunt Blanche fell in love with a married man(I guess he cared for her too) and gave birth to 2 children, we believe 1 was born circa 1918 and the second 1920. In the 1920 Neosho Co KS census, she said she was married and called herself Blanche Carlson. She was not married, but she was pregnant... Both given up for adoption at the insistence of her mother, who then forced her to have a hysterectomy...
Those were the "times" back then...
When her sister, my grandmother was pregnant with her 7th and last child, Blanche begged her to give the child to her to raise. Of course my Grandmother said no.
How sad!
My mother used to spend a few weeks every summer with her Aunt Blanche, and said she was always thinking Uncle Ben was messing around on her...
Well...If you fall in love with a married man, who was fooling around on his wife with you.
It's just a bad cycle, all the way around.
I put a few posts on a few web sites years ago, targeted to reunite adopted people with their birth families, But I had no luck. I wanted to tell those 2 people that they WERE conceived in love and that they WERE wanted.
They were both born in Kansas, probably Neosho Co, Wilson Co, OR rural Allen Co KS.
1st circa 1918 2nd circa 1920
It has been so many years ago, and everyone involved has past, I still ask permission from my 88 year old mother to post this information regarding her Aunt...permission granted.
I always felt the Name Carlson, was a clue to the identity of the father.
Maybe those 2 people, their children/grandchildren are out there looking...
my brother & I also put our DNA results into the ancestry.com database.
Residents of Coffeyville, Kansas the past four years, the Bradfords lived in Chanute, KS, 15 years previously. Mr. Bradford was a wholesale grocery salesman in Chanute.
Born in Allen Co, Kansas, July 30, 1894,
She was married to Benjamin "Ben" Garrison Bradford in December, 1922.
Mrs. Bradford was a member of the Coffeyville Presbyterian church.
Survivors are her husband; two sisters, Mrs. A.A. Ackerman, of Chanute, KS, and Mrs. A.F. Ackerman, of Aurora, MO; and three brothers, Clyde H. Stanley, of Kansas City, KS, Forest M. Stanley, of Vallejo, CA, and Robert Stanley, of Oakland, CA.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Skinner funeral chapel here. The Rev. Martin Klingberg, pastor of the Nowata, Oklahoma Presbyterian church, assisted by the Rev. Robert W. Scott, of Coffeyville, will be in charge.
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My Great Aunt Blanche fell in love with a married man(I guess he cared for her too) and gave birth to 2 children, we believe 1 was born circa 1918 and the second 1920. In the 1920 Neosho Co KS census, she said she was married and called herself Blanche Carlson. She was not married, but she was pregnant... Both given up for adoption at the insistence of her mother, who then forced her to have a hysterectomy...
Those were the "times" back then...
When her sister, my grandmother was pregnant with her 7th and last child, Blanche begged her to give the child to her to raise. Of course my Grandmother said no.
How sad!
My mother used to spend a few weeks every summer with her Aunt Blanche, and said she was always thinking Uncle Ben was messing around on her...
Well...If you fall in love with a married man, who was fooling around on his wife with you.
It's just a bad cycle, all the way around.
I put a few posts on a few web sites years ago, targeted to reunite adopted people with their birth families, But I had no luck. I wanted to tell those 2 people that they WERE conceived in love and that they WERE wanted.
They were both born in Kansas, probably Neosho Co, Wilson Co, OR rural Allen Co KS.
1st circa 1918 2nd circa 1920
It has been so many years ago, and everyone involved has past, I still ask permission from my 88 year old mother to post this information regarding her Aunt...permission granted.
I always felt the Name Carlson, was a clue to the identity of the father.
Maybe those 2 people, their children/grandchildren are out there looking...
my brother & I also put our DNA results into the ancestry.com database.
COFFEYVILLE, KS — Mrs. Blanche Grace Bradford died at her home here Monday evening at 8:15 following an illness of several months.
Residents of Coffeyville, Kansas the past four years, the Bradfords lived in Chanute, KS, 15 years previously. Mr. Bradford was a wholesale grocery salesman in Chanute.
Born in Allen Co, Kansas, July 30, 1894,
She was married to Benjamin "Ben" Garrison Bradford in December, 1922.
Mrs. Bradford was a member of the Coffeyville Presbyterian church.
Survivors are her husband; two sisters, Mrs. A.A. Ackerman, of Chanute, KS, and Mrs. A.F. Ackerman, of Aurora, MO; and three brothers, Clyde H. Stanley, of Kansas City, KS, Forest M. Stanley, of Vallejo, CA, and Robert Stanley, of Oakland, CA.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Skinner funeral chapel here. The Rev. Martin Klingberg, pastor of the Nowata, Oklahoma Presbyterian church, assisted by the Rev. Robert W. Scott, of Coffeyville, will be in charge.
******************
My Great Aunt Blanche fell in love with a married man(I guess he cared for her too) and gave birth to 2 children, we believe 1 was born circa 1918 and the second 1920. In the 1920 Neosho Co KS census, she said she was married and called herself Blanche Carlson. She was not married, but she was pregnant... Both given up for adoption at the insistence of her mother, who then forced her to have a hysterectomy...
Those were the "times" back then...
When her sister, my grandmother was pregnant with her 7th and last child, Blanche begged her to give the child to her to raise. Of course my Grandmother said no.
How sad!
My mother used to spend a few weeks every summer with her Aunt Blanche, and said she was always thinking Uncle Ben was messing around on her...
Well...If you fall in love with a married man, who was fooling around on his wife with you.
It's just a bad cycle, all the way around.
I put a few posts on a few web sites years ago, targeted to reunite adopted people with their birth families, But I had no luck. I wanted to tell those 2 people that they WERE conceived in love and that they WERE wanted.
They were both born in Kansas, probably Neosho Co, Wilson Co, OR rural Allen Co KS.
1st circa 1918 2nd circa 1920
It has been so many years ago, and everyone involved has past, I still ask permission from my 88 year old mother to post this information regarding her Aunt...permission granted.
I always felt the Name Carlson, was a clue to the identity of the father.
Maybe those 2 people, their children/grandchildren are out there looking...
my brother & I also put our DNA results into the ancestry.com database.
Residents of Coffeyville, Kansas the past four years, the Bradfords lived in Chanute, KS, 15 years previously. Mr. Bradford was a wholesale grocery salesman in Chanute.
Born in Allen Co, Kansas, July 30, 1894,
She was married to Benjamin "Ben" Garrison Bradford in December, 1922.
Mrs. Bradford was a member of the Coffeyville Presbyterian church.
Survivors are her husband; two sisters, Mrs. A.A. Ackerman, of Chanute, KS, and Mrs. A.F. Ackerman, of Aurora, MO; and three brothers, Clyde H. Stanley, of Kansas City, KS, Forest M. Stanley, of Vallejo, CA, and Robert Stanley, of Oakland, CA.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Skinner funeral chapel here. The Rev. Martin Klingberg, pastor of the Nowata, Oklahoma Presbyterian church, assisted by the Rev. Robert W. Scott, of Coffeyville, will be in charge.
******************
My Great Aunt Blanche fell in love with a married man(I guess he cared for her too) and gave birth to 2 children, we believe 1 was born circa 1918 and the second 1920. In the 1920 Neosho Co KS census, she said she was married and called herself Blanche Carlson. She was not married, but she was pregnant... Both given up for adoption at the insistence of her mother, who then forced her to have a hysterectomy...
Those were the "times" back then...
When her sister, my grandmother was pregnant with her 7th and last child, Blanche begged her to give the child to her to raise. Of course my Grandmother said no.
How sad!
My mother used to spend a few weeks every summer with her Aunt Blanche, and said she was always thinking Uncle Ben was messing around on her...
Well...If you fall in love with a married man, who was fooling around on his wife with you.
It's just a bad cycle, all the way around.
I put a few posts on a few web sites years ago, targeted to reunite adopted people with their birth families, But I had no luck. I wanted to tell those 2 people that they WERE conceived in love and that they WERE wanted.
They were both born in Kansas, probably Neosho Co, Wilson Co, OR rural Allen Co KS.
1st circa 1918 2nd circa 1920
It has been so many years ago, and everyone involved has past, I still ask permission from my 88 year old mother to post this information regarding her Aunt...permission granted.
I always felt the Name Carlson, was a clue to the identity of the father.
Maybe those 2 people, their children/grandchildren are out there looking...
my brother & I also put our DNA results into the ancestry.com database.
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