Life History

Notes

• 1920 Federal Census, Johnston County, Oklahoma, 16 January, Thomas Township, District 97, page 6A, Hse/Fam #106
  Quaid, Lee H Head Owns M W  38 TX MS TX Farmer
  Quaid, Winnie Wife  F W  38 TX MO MO
  Quaid, Sylva Dau F W  6 Single OK TX TX
  
  1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 7 April, Brown Township, District 1, page 3B, Hse #45, Fam #49
  Quaid, L H Head Rents M W  48 First Married at age 19 TX AR GA Farmer [b abt 1882]
  Quaid, Winne A Wife F W  47 Married at age 19 OK AR AL [b abt 1883]
  Quaid, Silvia Dau F W  15 Single OK TX OK [b abt 1915]
  
  1940 Federal Census, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, 27 April, Kirk Township, District 45-19, Page 12A, Hse #188, Owns $200, On Farm
  - page 11B -
  Setszer (Stazer?), Cephus R Head F W 63 Married Grade H3 b North Carolina same house in 1935 Odd Job Carpenter
  Setszer (Stazer?), Bell Wife F W -- Married Grade 8 b Arkansas same house in 1935 Housewife
  Setszer (Stazer?), Noel Son M W 18 Grade 8 b Missouri same place in 1935 Laborer New Worker (?)
  - page 12A -
  Setszer (Stazer?), Anita Dau F W 18 Single Grade H3 b Oklahoma same house in 1935 No Occup
  Setszer (Stazer?), Bernice Dau F W 12 Single Grade 7 b Oklahoma same house in 1935
  Blakenship, Leonard M Head F W 22 Married Grade 4 b Oklahoma Rural McCurtain Co in 1935 Farm Laborer
  Blankenship, Sylvia Lodger's Wife F W 25 Grade 6 b Oklahoma Rural Stephens Co in 1935
  Morgan, Patricia A Lodger's Stepdau F W 5 Grade 0 b Oklahoma Rural Stephens Co in 1935
  
  The presence of Sylvia's daughter and the residence reports for 1935 indicates Sylvia's previous marriage to a man named Morgan.  Her fairly extensive obituary mentions nothing about this previous marriage or any survivors related to the Morgan family, including her daughter Patricia reported here in the 1940 census.  The obituary gives the date of her marriage to Leonard Blankenship as July 1939.  So her first husband died some time between 1835 (approximate birth year of Patricia) and 1839.
  
  In Broken Bow (McCurtain County), they are near the Oklahoma border.  Sylvia's previous residence was in Stephens County (County seat Marlow) in the west central part of the state.  It may be that she and Mr Morgan had moved to Bryan County before he died.
  
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  Sylvia Ethel Blankenship
  DIED: October 6, 2012
  LOCATION: Broken Bow, Oklahoma
  
  Sylvia Ethel (Quaid) Blankenship was born September 20, 1914 in Milburn, Oklahoma the daughter of Lee Harrington Quaid and Winnie Lee (Foster) Quaid. Sylvia married Leonard Melton Blankenship in Durant [Bryan County], OK in July 1939 and he preceded her in death on August 5, 2004.
  
  She is also preceded in death by her parents, six brothers, two sisters, a daughter in law, Unhui Blankenship, a son in law Ward Moye, a great grandchild, Anthony Beller and a great great grandchild, Keaton Beller.
  
  Sylvia had lived over sixty-eight years in the Valliant area and was a long time member of the Valliant Church of Christ and was a Nurses aid at McCurtain Memorial Hospital for sixteen years. She loved to quilt and had made all her children, grandchildren and great grand children a quilt. Sylvia also like to go fishing with her husband as long as they were able and to play 42 with the family when they visited and she was very good at it.
  
  SURVIVORS INCLUDE: two sons, Bobby Blankenship of Siloam Springs, AR and James Blankenship & wife Kelly of Konawa, OK; three daughters, Clarece Liles & husband Darrell of Valliant, OK, Patricia Moye of Valliant, OK and Shelia Myers & husband Leon of Yukon, OK; seventeen grandchildren, twenty-six great grandchildren and twenty-six great great grandchildren along with a host of other family and friends.
  
  [Obituary courtesy of Beverly Mixon Hill]
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  Additional Details On the Obituary Site:
  VISITATION
  October 07, 2012
  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  Miller & Miller Funeral Home~Valliant
  201 East Wilson
  Valliant, OK 74764
  580/933/5550
  
  FUNERAL SERVICE
  October 08, 2012
  2:00 PM
  
  Valliant Church of Christ
  Corner North Dalton & Pine Creek Road
  Valliant, OK 74764
  
  INTERMENT Monday October 08 2012
  
  Valliant Cemetery
  Hwy 70 West
  Valliant, OK 74764
  --  Tributes, http://tributes.com/condolences/leave_memory/94537197#obituary
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Sources

• 1. 1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 7 April, Brown Township, District 1, page 3B, Hse #45, Fam #49
• 2. 1920 Federal Census, Johnston County, Oklahoma
  • 16 January, Thomas Township, District 97, page 6A, Hse/Fam #106
• 3. 1940 Federal Census, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
  • 27 April, Kirk Township, District 45-19, Page 12A, Hse #188, Owns $200, On Farm
• 4. Obituary of Sylvia Ethel Quaid Blankenship, Tributes.com
  • Tributes, http://tributes.com/condolences/leave_memory/94537197#obituary
• 5. Obituary of Virginia Ann Quaid
  • Name: Newspaper Unknown; Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma; Date: 8 February 1934;
• 6. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2