Tombstone Tuesday - Blanchette

Today I am sharing some of my Blanchette family gravestones.  You can read about the family, most recently here.

Large tree trunk family monument with Blanchard on the scroll

Louis was a sawyer, so this is very appropriate

Pvt. Louis Blanchard

Co. H  4th Reg

Wisconsin Cavalry

1840 - 1923

above in Hope Cemetery, Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin

 Julia Blanchard Richards Hough

1832 - 19xx  (1914)

Solomon R. Hough

1825 - 1909

(second husband of Julia Blanchard) 

My Husband

Charles Richards

Drowned in Kal. River

Sept 17, 1867

AE 48 Yrs  3 M's

Julia

(first husband of Julia Blanchard, drowned in logging accident in the Kalamazoo River)

above in Riverside Cemetery, Saugatuck, Allegan, Michigan

Rena Blanchard Riley (1882-1967)

Riley family lot

above in South Lockport a/k/a St. Dennis Cemetery, Lockport, Will, Illinois

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