Mary Elizabeth BLANCHARD

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9 April 1865 , Kansas, USA

Died

16 August 1898 , Oklahoma Territory

Age: 33

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Thomas Alva BLANCHARD Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" ALLEN

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Born: 9 April 1865 in Kansas, USA

Father: Thomas Alva BLANCHARD

Mother: Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" ALLEN

Paternal grandparents: Ira A. BLANCHARD , Margaret RUTHERFORD

Maternal grandparents: John Christison ALLEN , Margaret Ann MURPHY

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Mary Elizabeth married John Robert ALLEN abt. 1893 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John Robert ALLEN was born 21 September 1865 in North Carolina, USA. John Robert died 15 March 1925 in Thruston, Thurston, Nebraska, USA. John Robert was the child of John Martin ALLEN and Nancy Susan DAVIS.

Mary Elizabeth BLANCHARD died 16 August 1898 in Oklahoma Territory.
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Mary Elizabeth BLANCHARD married

John Robert ALLEN
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John Robert ALLEN was the child of John Martin ALLEN and Nancy Susan DAVIS

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Seth Thomas Blanchard ALLEN

Born: 25 June 1893, Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma Territory
Died: 18 July 1972, Holton, Jackson, Kansas, USA

Married: Mable Emma WILSON 1929

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Birth — 1865
9 April 1865
Kansas, USA

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1893 Birth of Child
Seth Thomas Blanchard ALLEN was born 25 June 1893, Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, USA

Mary Elizabeth was 28 years old.

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

Death — 1898
16 August 1898
Oklahoma Territory
She died at the age of 33.

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The name 'Kansas' comes from the native American Kaws or Kansa people (a Sioux tribe). (statesymbolsusa.org)

January 29, 1861 - Kansas becomes 34th U.S. state

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