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Came to America in 1834 from Portsmouth, England

1. 2. Henry Howe BLANCHETT   b. 14 Jun 1804, Saint Mary's, Portsea, Hampshire, England; d. 3 Aug 1891, Avon, Oh.
2. 3. Charles J. BLANCHETT   b. 1808.
3. 4. William F BLANCHETT   b. Sep 1814.

1. 5. Elizabeth Ann BLANCHETT   b. 20 Oct 1830, Portsmouth, England; c. St Mary's Church, Portsea, Southampton Co., England; d. 13 Jun 1867, Bethel, Mi.
2. 6. Emma Jane BLANCHETT   b. 3 Mar 1833.
3. 7. Henry Charles BLANCHETT   b. Sep 1864.
4. 8. Henry W BLANCHETT   b. 1836; d. 1852, Avon, Lorain Co., Oh; bur. Avon Center Cemetery.
5. 9. Charles B BLANCHETT   b. 1841; d. 1864, Washington Dc; bur. Arlington National Cemetery.
6. 10. Caroline C M BLANCHETT   b. 1842; d. 30 Mar 1850, Avon, Lorain Co., Oh, at the age of 7 years and 7 months.

1. 11. Thomas BLANCHETT   b. 1844.
2. 12. Joseph R BLANCHETT   b. 1845, Avon, Lorain Co., Oh.
3. 13. John C BLANCHETT   b. 1849.
4. 14. Nelson BLANCHETT  
5. 15. Frank BLANCHETT  

DEATH: Died 13 days after her second set of twins were born.

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Elizabeth was raised in Avon Twp., Lorain Co., Ohio. She died at the age of 36 yrs, 7 mo and 21 days. She died from complications of childbirth after giving birth to twins.

1. 16. Charles Edward CHENEY, [twin]   b. 10 Mar 1865, Ovid, Clinton, Michigan; d. 16 Feb 1952, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio.
2. 17. Estella Lorette CHENEY   b. 12 Sep 1863, Avon Twp, Lorain, Ohio; d. 1 Jul 1937, Elyria, Oh, buried at Bridgeport, Connecticut; bur. 5 Jul 1937, ,, New York.
3. 18. Ida Blanch CHENEY, [twin]   b. 10 Mar 1865, Bethel, Mi; d. 26 Dec 1957, Coldwater Twp. Mi, bur in Sorter Cemetery.
4. 19. Alice Elizabeth CHENEY, [twin]   b. 2 Jun 1867, Bethel, Mi; d. 15 Jan 1890, East Gilead, Mi.
5. 20. Bernice Ann CHENEY, [twin]   b. 2 Jun 1867, Bethel, Mi; d. 21 Feb 1874, Bur Lockwood Cemetery.

This Henry Charles could also be a grandson of Henry Howe.


Information on this line from the internet - www.genforum.com:

Do you have any Blanchett's in Ohio? My grt grt grndfthr Henry Charles Blanchett was from Lorraine, Ohio. Later moved to MI where he married Mary Elizabeth Angus.
children:
1) Walter Blanchett m. 1)Alice 2)Blanche- he had no children.
2) Alice M. Blanchett m. Orley Hilsabeck- 1) Orlay 2)Lewis 3)Elwyn
3) Lillian Louella Blanchett b. 1905 d. 198? m. 1927 1)George Andrew Montgomery- a) Marshall George Montgomery b) Mary Jean Montgomery. 2) George "Melvin" Arrand
Thanx,
Kim

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1. 21. Walter BLANCHETT   b. Aug 1894.
2. 22. Alice BLANCHETT  
3. 23. Lillian BLANCHETT  

From History of the Great Lakes, Vol 2 by J. B. Mansfield; Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers & Marine Biographies - Published Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co 1899

Joseph R. Blanchette, who has been chief engineer of the Nyanza since the season of 1892, is the second of five sons of William and Catharine (Quilliams) Blanchette. The father was an old-time steamboat engineer, and was lost on the lakes, in 1856, while on the J. W. Brooks of the old National Transit line. The sons, like their father, all became engineers; and Thomas, the eldest, met with the same fate, being chief engineer of the B. W. Jones, when she was blown up at Port Huron, on the St. Clair River, in May, 1871. John is a locomotive engineer on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and resides at Aurora, Ill. Nelson is a locomotive engineer on the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad, residing at Saginaw, Mich. Frank, the youngest, is engineer on the Northern Pacific railroad.

Joseph R. Blanchette, the subject of this sketch, was born in Avon, Ohio in 1845, and obtained his schooling at that place. His first employment was running a drill for the Dean & Eaton Car Co., at Detroit, Mich., and after three years of that work he entered the machine shops of the Kellogg Nut and Bolt Works, remaining there two years. He then started railroading, firing on the Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad for the three years of 1865-65-66, and in 1867 began his marine life as assistant engineer of the tug Grant, out of Detroit, owned by John Deman. Leaving her after two season,s he went on the tug Thomas Quayle, of which he was second engineer for the season of 1869, and the succeeding seasons of 1870-71 was chief engineer of the Jay Cook, a passenger boat, of Detroit. In 1872 he returned to railraoding, as a locomotive engineer of the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad until May, 1874, when he left to accept the position of chief engineer of the John Sherman for that season. During the winter of 1874-75 he engaged in railroading again until Mary 22, 1875, when he again went on the John Sherman as chief. In 1876-77 he was chief of the George R. Dunlap, and for the four successive seasons, from 1878-81 inclusive, of the Dove, being then transferred to the Arundel, of which he was chief the next nine seasons. It will thus be seen that Mr. Blanchette spent seventeen years in the employ of the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Mail line of steamers. He entered the service of the McBrier line, of Erie, Penn., in 1891 as chief of the Fedora, and in 1892 went on the Nyanza, belonging to the same line, and was on her five seasons. During his career as engineer Mr. Blanchette has proven himself a careful, reliable and steady navigator, never having been in any steamboat collision or wreck, and since he has had chief's papers has been in the employ of only two lines, one seventeen, the other seven years.

He is a holder of a number of issues of chief's license, is a member of Local Harbor No. 1, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, of Buffalo, and is a thirty-second-degree Mason, being a member of Michigan Sovereign Consistory, A. A. S. R., Valley of Detroit, and Blue Lodge No 129, F. & A. M., of Bay City, Michigan.

Mr. Blanchette was married, December 12, 1876, to Miss Louisa Clark, a daughter of T. L Clark, an old pioneer of Maumee, Ohio. The family residence is at No. 209 Potomac avenue, Buffalo, New York.

RESIDENCES: Elyria, Ohio

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Provided by Virginia Stickan, Dec, 2001

Coldwater Reporter, Feb 19th, 1952:

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD IN OHIO FOR FORMER OVID MAN
Funeral services for Charlie E. Cheney, former resident of Ovid township, were held today at Elyria, Ohio. Mr. Cheney died February 16 at his home in Elyria at the age of 86. Several nieces and nephews and a twin sister, Mrs. A. C. McNitt, of Coldwater, survive and reside in this vicinity. He will be remembered here as the son of Reuben and Elizabeth Cheney of West Ovid.
Mr. Cheney's wife and three children survive him and all reside at Elyria.

1. 24. Robert Sidney CHENEY   b. 4 Dec 1907, Avon Twp, Lorain, Ohio; d. 17 May 1976, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; bur. Brookdale Cemetery, Elyria, Oh.
2. 25. Ralph Henry CHENEY   b. 20 Dec 1897, Avon Twp., Lorain Co., Oh; d. 27 Mar 1994, Elyria, Oh.
3. 26. Edward Albin CHENEY   b. 16 Jan 1900, Avon Twp., Lorain Co., Oh; d. 22 Aug 1901, Avon Twp., Lorain Co., Oh.
4. 27. Bernice Stickney CHENEY   b. 21 Aug 1905, Avon Twp., Lorain Co., Oh; d. Mar 1985, Elyria, Oh; bur. Florida.

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Estelle and Carlisle lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut and in New York City.

1. 28. Zilpha SMITH   b. 14 Dec 1882, ,, Colorado.
2. 29. Edna SMITH   b. Feb 1886, ,, Michigan.
3. 30. Carlisle SMITH   b. 1 Jul 1892, ,, Connecticut; d. Mar 1963, Fl.
4. 31. Charles SMITH   b. 25 Dec 1894, ,, Connecticut.
5. 32. Jennie May SMITH   b. 1 Sep 1899, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut; d. 9 Jul 1921, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
6. 33. Theodore Lorenzo SMITH  

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Ida and Alva married in Avon, OH and lived in several places including the area of Coldwater, MI, Jamestown, NY and Stamford, CT

1. 34. Harry MCNITT   b. 9 Nov 1889, Coldwater, Mi; d. 25 Apr 1937, Jamestown, Ny.
2. 35. Ethel Alice MCNITT   b. 12 Jan 1892, Coldwater, Mi; d. 1 Jun 1962, Jamestown, Ny, bur Myrtle Cem. Clarke Corners, Ny.
3. 36. Flora Elizabeth MCNITT   b. 24 Mar 1894, Coldwater, Mi; d. 23 May 1966, Coldwater, Mi bur Sorter Cem, south of Coldwater.
4. 37. Charles Wallace MCNITT   b. 9 Nov 1896, Coldwater, Mi; d. Feb 1971, Charlottesville, Va.

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From Newspaper Clippings provided by Virginia Stickan, December 2001:

Alice Cheney, Ovid - Died at her home in east Gilead, Jan. 5, 1890, of scarlet fever after an illness of only four days. Alice Mabrey, wife of Curtis Mabrey and daughter of the late Reuben Cheney. "None knew her but to love her." Her sudden death is a great shock to her friends, and say to us all, "Be ye also ready." She leaves a babe of eleven weeks, and a sorrow-stricken husband and only two short years married. Surely "Death loves a shining mark".

A BIT OF BIOGRAPHY
Read at the Memorial Services of Alice Cheney Mabrey, Jan. 26, 1890, in the Baptist Church of Kinderhook.
Twenty-two and a half years age, in the flowery month of June, the twin sisters, Alice and Bernice Cheney, made their advent into this ever changeful world, heralded by the bright blossoms, the rippling brooks and the song of birds. In two short weeks they were motherless and the home next was broken up. But just at this time, two God-fearing mothers who had lost their daughters by marriage and were saying over to themselves, in the words of the "Ancient Arrow Maker",
"Thus it is our daughters leave us,
Those we love, and those who love us,
Just as they have learned to help us,
When we are old and lean upon them,
Comes a youth with flaunting feathers,
Beckons to the fairest maiden,
And she follows where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger."
These mothers opened their loving hearts and homes to these motherless twin lambs. Thus in God's providence each found a sheltering fold and tender nursing. They came into their adopted homes like rays of sunlight, brightening everything and cheering their foster parents by their sweet baby voices and cunning ways.
Six years of happy childhood passed swiftly away, when the angels claimed Bernice and took her to their bright home. And let us believe that all down through the intervening years she has been Alice's guardian angel, "Calling her away, calling her away, calling to a better land." What spring time is to the year, what sunlight is to earth, Alice was in the home of her adoption - affectionate, bright, cheerful and helpful, she found her way into all hearts. And to father and mother Cheney, in their declining years, she was as a bed of pansies in a snow drift. A child of many prayers, she became a Christian at the age of 17 and united with the Kinderhook Baptist church, of which she remained a consistent member, active in the missionary society and ready for all church work. She loved to sing. Among her favorite hymns were "On Christ the Solid Rock I stand," and "It is well, it is well with my soul.". Today she sings the songs of the redeemed in a "land that is fairer than day."
Two years ago on a bright New Year's day she gave her happiness into the keeping of the husband of her choice - a young, rose-cheeked bride, fitted to adorn any home, and with fair prospects of a long and happy life. But God in his infinite wisdom ordered it otherwise. The Death Angel plucked the rose from off her cheek to blossom in the garden of Paradise. And although we long for her presence we know that our loving Heavenly Father has only taken up one more link of the golden chain that binds us to heaven, and that Alice, as was said of another, has found "the morning light of fairer than italian skies, while we yet grope among the shadows. But by and by we shall go home at evening and find it morning there."
As we looked upon her youthful face for the last time we could but think as was said of "Little Nell:" "She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life; not one who had lived and suffered death"
Her earthly life closed suddenly, like an unfinished poem, but who shall say that the little one left motherless, looking, ever looking, for that one dear familiar face, may not take up the poem and carry it on to its completion?
As a beautiful song once heard is never forgotten, so the memory of this fresh young life will abide in our hears evermore - not as a myth or a dream, but as a living, breathing reality. "To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die." Let us think of her as
"Only just across the river,
Only on the other side
Where the angels are in waiting,
And the pure in heart abide."
watching and waiting to welcome us as we shall, one by one, cross to the other shore.
Let us not waste our time in vain regrets over what has been left unsaid and undone, but rather be the more thoughtful and tender of those who are left us.

"Let's not fill with costly perfume
Alabaster boxes white,
Hiding al love's precious ointment
Far away from mortal sight.
Let's not keep our flowers for coffins;
They can cast no frangrance back
O'er the weary life that's ended,
O'er the lonely cheerless track.
Let's not save our kindest sayings,
Let's not keep the tears unshed
Till the "silver cord is loosened,"
And the friend beloved is dead.
Take the alabaster boxes,
Break them in our homes today,
Shed their sweet and lovely perfume
All along life's rugged way.
Send our flowers to friends while living,
Pick the blossoms wet with dew
They will whisper thoughts of gladness,
They will breathe of kindness true.
Sympathize with hearts of sadness,
Bid the fainting one be strong,
Reach a hand to help the fallen,
Sing a cheerful, helpful song."

Jennie M. Cheney

1. 38. Harrison Clare MABREY   b. 19 Oct 1889.

Notes from Susan Love via email 3-10-2004 - dmlove@earthlink.net

In 1870 Bernice Cheney (age 3) was living with Stuart/Stewart & Laura Fowler Davis and Laura's mother Mariah Fowler. Stuart & Laura's son, Theodore, married Caroline Brown, daughter of Charles D & Hannah Hoyt Brown. Their son, Elisha Brown, married Anna Cheney, daughter of Eli & Jane Wallis Cheney (Reuben's brother). I've done quite a bit of work on Eli and family and followed the Hoyts back to Job Hoyt & Elizabeth Lockwood. Elizabeth's family line connects with both Rufus Lockwood and Uriah Lockwood. Rufus's daughter Mary Ellen Lockwood married Uriah's grandson, Edward Lockwood. Edward and his father, Henry, ran the Lockwood Store at the corner of Lockwood and Behnke Roads (just above the Lockwood Cemetery). Henry was married to Laura Davis. Stuart and Laura were the son and daughter of Ichabod Davis. I have pages and pages on the Davis and Lockwood families.