Youngest of the three daughters born to the distinguished Civil War and frontier officer Albert Barnitz of the 7th US Cavalry, and his second wife, the former Jennie Platt, Blanche was briefly married to the flambouyant widower Hobart M. Stocking, a politician, newspaper owner, and entrepreneur from Wisconsin who was more than 25 years her senior. A bride of 21 at the time of their wedding in 1896, the disastrous union ended in divorce less than three years later, after which Blanche resided with her parents. She never remarried.
Predeceased by her sister Mary "Maidie" in 1910, her father in 1912, and her mother in 1927, she joined them in the family plot here in Arlington after her death in 1955 at age 80. (A brother-in-law, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne, was buried nearby after his death in 1910.) At the time of her death Blanche's survivors included her sister, Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died in 1961, the victim of an auto accident.
Predeceased by her sister Mary "Maidie" in 1910, her father in 1912, and her mother in 1927, she joined them in the family plot here in Arlington after her death in 1955 at age 80. (A brother-in-law, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne, was buried nearby after his death in 1910.) At the time of her death Blanche's survivors included her sister, Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died in 1961, the victim of an auto accident.
Youngest of the three daughters born to the distinguished Civil War and frontier officer Albert Barnitz of the 7th US Cavalry, and his second wife, the former Jennie Platt, Blanche was briefly married to the flambouyant widower Hobart M. Stocking, a politician, newspaper owner, and entrepreneur from Wisconsin who was more than 25 years her senior. A bride of 21 at the time of their wedding in 1896, the disastrous union ended in divorce less than three years later, after which Blanche resided with her parents. She never remarried.
Predeceased by her sister Mary "Maidie" in 1910, her father in 1912, and her mother in 1927, she joined them in the family plot here in Arlington after her death in 1955 at age 80. (A brother-in-law, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne, was buried nearby after his death in 1910.) At the time of her death Blanche's survivors included her sister, Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died in 1961, the victim of an auto accident.
Predeceased by her sister Mary "Maidie" in 1910, her father in 1912, and her mother in 1927, she joined them in the family plot here in Arlington after her death in 1955 at age 80. (A brother-in-law, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne, was buried nearby after his death in 1910.) At the time of her death Blanche's survivors included her sister, Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died in 1961, the victim of an auto accident.
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