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Pvt David Joseph Blanton

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Pvt David Joseph Blanton

Birth
Death
26 Feb 1865 (aged 30–31)
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Plot
Section W Grave 52
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There is also a memorial (placed by Hoover Clarence Blanton and Weldon Leo Blanton) to David Joseph Blanton at Pleasant Meadow Baptist Church Cemetery in Loris, Horry County, South Carolina, USA (alongside his wife's grave).

Died in Jackson Hospital.
There is also a memorial (placed by Hoover Clarence Blanton and Weldon Leo Blanton) to David Joseph Blanton at Pleasant Meadow Baptist Church Cemetery in Loris, Horry County, South Carolina, USA (alongside his wife's grave).

Died in Jackson Hospital.

Inscription

Company K, 26 SC Infantry, CSA

On Back:

David Joseph Blanton

A landowner planter in the Playcard Community of Horry County, S.C., he joined the South Carolina Volunteers Infantry at Blanton's X-Roads, now Green Sea, on January 1, 1862. His Regiment served at Charleston, Vicksburg, Kinston, Weldon, Petersburg, Richmond and places in between. He died at nearby Jackson Hospital and was buried in this Hallowed Grounds with thousands of his fellow fallen Confederate States of America soldiers. May he, and they, forever rest in Heavenly peace.

His wife and their Children

Celia Alice Williamson 1824-1907
Nancy Orilla 1857-1936
James Madison 1859-1910
Joseph Oliver 1861-1881
Susan Jane 1865-1937

Memorial dedicated on the 143rd anniversary of his death, on behalf of all descendants, by g-g-granddaughter Linda Beatrice Cox McNish and g-grandsons Hoover Clarence Blanton and Weldon Leo Blanton.

Linda Cox McNish was the source of the colorized photo? https://web.archive.org/web/20080516225628/http://www.hchsonline.org/photos/DavidJosephBlanton(ca.1833-1865).html

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