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- MHR note: Blanch taught for six years in Vermilion County, Illinois before her marriage. After her husband died, she taught three years in Mississippi, then returned to Illinois and taught twelve more years. During WWII she taught f few terms again in Vermilion County, Illinois. She wrote poems, stories and articles, home of which were published in Youth's Companion , Munsay's Magazine, Little Folks' Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, and various educational, religious and local periodicals.
Blanche and Hiram had three children and reared Elsie Snyder who was a first cousin to Hiram. Elsie was a orphan.
She and Hiram were both members of the Christian Church.
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- From newspaper clipping.
Ex-Georgetown Teacher, 82, On Long Trip.
Georgetown - Mrs. Blanche Brown of Big Creek, Miss. will begin her journey home, Thursday, after an extensive vacation. She will be 82 years old Oct. 8, and has traveled alone on her trip.
She left her home May 27, going to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Blaylock, in Hickory Flat, Miss, for a week. From there she went to Memphis for four days with a grandson, Hiram Blaylock. The next stop was in South Haven, Kansas, where she spent 10 days with her 90-year-old brother, Thad A. Hedges. Mrs. Hedges is a minister and preaches every Sunday.
She also visited a week with two cousins in Topeka, Kans. then to Moberly, Mo., for four days with a nephew, then two weeks at Center Point, Iowa, with an 84-year-old sister. After visiting this sister she went to Detroit, Mich., for a week with a sister who has been a patient, with total paralysis for five years in a Detroit hospital. On July 19 she came to Georgetown, to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orpheus Richardson. During her visit there she has made visits in Danville, Fairmount, Catlin and Brocton. When she leaves Thursday she will visit a day in Orden and Urbana.
She plans to stop in Hickory Flat on her way home to visit her daughter again.
Mrs. Brown is well known in this community, where she taught school 23 years. She is the widow of Hiram Brown. They were the parents of three children. The elder daughter died in 1932, leaving four children, whom Mrs. Brown assisted in rearing. Her other children are the daughter in Hickory Flat, Miss., and a son, an employe of the Big Creek post office. There are 18 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lynn, daughter Kay, and Miss Phyllis Moore have returned from a 5,500 mile trip through the West. They first visited Mr. Lyon's nephew in Los Alamos, N.M., who is a chemical engineer in the atomic bomb plant. From there they drove to Grand Canyon, then on to California to visit Mrs. Lyon's uncles.
On the return trip they visited Yosemite National Park, Salt Lake City and Reno, Nev., the Rocky Mountain National Park and other places of interest.
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