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Duane Orland Blinsmon

RESEARCHER: Information provided by Nora Hegarty  to T.Mason on 6 Jun 2002. "From The Lake Preston Times, Lake Preston, S.D., May 31, 1984.  Duane Blinsmon Funeral Saturday.
    Funeral services for Duane O. Blinsmon, Age 59, were conducted from the United Church of Christ in Lake Preston on Saturday Afternoon. Rev. Bruce Herrboldt had charge of the service.  Mrs Merrill Thomas Organist and Mr. and Mrs., Wesley Jones, Vocalists, provided special music.
    Duane Orland, son of John Orland and Edith Blinsmon, was born June 14, 1924, in Oldham, South Dakota.  He lived his entire life in the Lake Preston area.  On May 19, 1945, he married Marlys Lundquist in Huron.
    Duane served in and is a veteran of World War II.  He worked as a mechanic in Lake Preston for many years and then worked for the Farmers Union Oil Companies in both Lake Preston and Oldham.  He was an active member of the church, the fire department and the American Legion.  He enjoyed working with Jr. Legion ball and hunter's safety courses.
    He died at the Veterans' Hospital in Sioux Falls on Wednesday morning, May 23, 1984.
    Survivors include: his wife, Marlys; daughter, Dianne, and husband Terry Martinmaas of Sioux Falls; son, Terry, and his wife, Carol German Blinsmon of Watertown;  four grandchildren, Lance Blinsmon, Kristine, Heather, and aimee Martinmaas; three brothers, Merle of 29 Palms, California, Jim of Long Beach California and Gayle of Somerset, N.Jersey; two sisters, Dorothy (Mrs James Westaby) of Sioux Falls and Phyllis (Mrs. Lovell Wheeler) of Imperial, Ne.
    He was preceeded in death by his parents, one sister and one brother.
    Pallbearers for the service on Saturday were: Lloyd Johnson, LeRoy Helfinstine, Louis Baumberger, Charles Warren, Wesley Martin and Quentine Anderson.
    Burial was in Lake Preston City Cemetery."


John Lewis

RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 9 Jun 2002 by Mike Lewis Monroe  "Is said to have had 12 children of which David Jackson Lewis was the youngest.
    John's child born in 1759 had a notation on her gravestone that she was born in Amelia County, Virginia, so it is uncertain where John and Sarah's children born between 1750 - 1758 were actually born, since the daughter in 1759 was born outside of Albemarle.  You are likely to find all sorts of conflicting locations of birth for those early children -- Hanover County, Caroline County, and Albemarle County to name a few of the more popular proposed locations.
    John Lewis wrote his will in April 1779, and died sometime between 1-Feb-1781 and 1-Feb-1784.  There is some confusion over this John Lewis's exact date of death.  Many people claim John died 23-January-1784, and yet his will of April 1779 appears like it might have been processed in April Court 1782 which certainly raises some questions.
    John Lewis moved his family from Albemarle County where David Jackson Lewis was born, to Rutherford County, North Carolina (between Charlotte, NC, and Asheville, NC) between 1775 - 1779 by all accounts."