Blanche Elizabeth Griffith was the daughter of Lewis A. B. and Amanda C. (Knode) Griffith, her parents, who were born in Virginia and Maryland, became settlers in Missouri and Iowa. She was one of eleven children, most born in Page County, Iowa.
Blanche married her first husband James Keener and had two sons:
1. Oscar born 11 Feb. 1883 in Audubon, Iowa.
2. Ralph born 1886 in Springview, Nebraska, and wed Ora Mae Rose in Baker, Fallon, Montana in 1922. Ralph enlisted in a Montana regiment after this country had entered the war, but owning to sickness saw no active service.
In Arkansas, Blanche married her second husband, Sanford Baum in June, 1894, she being his second wife. By his first wife, Emma (daughter of John Neal) who he married in 1876, Mr. Baum had two daughters, now grown: Leona M., wife of Fred Therburg of La Crosse, and Eva Pearl, wife of Frank Bellis of Montana. Sanford helped raise the two Keener sons.
Sanford had a large apple orchard in Arkansas. This place he later traded for 80 acres in Section 17, town of Wilson, Dunn County, Wis. It was in 1895 when they took possession and he found 30 acres cleared, and a log house on the place, which house he "sided up," also building an addition and plastering it all inside, which made it a comfortable dwelling. At the present time they have 54 acres of the land under the plow, the balance being in timber and pasture. He had made good progress in general farming and dairying, keeping grade Guernsey cattle. Sanford also raises hogs and has a one-acre orchard of bearing apple trees.
[Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin" (1925) pages 339-340]
Blanche married her first husband James Keener and had two sons:
1. Oscar born 11 Feb. 1883 in Audubon, Iowa.
2. Ralph born 1886 in Springview, Nebraska, and wed Ora Mae Rose in Baker, Fallon, Montana in 1922. Ralph enlisted in a Montana regiment after this country had entered the war, but owning to sickness saw no active service.
In Arkansas, Blanche married her second husband, Sanford Baum in June, 1894, she being his second wife. By his first wife, Emma (daughter of John Neal) who he married in 1876, Mr. Baum had two daughters, now grown: Leona M., wife of Fred Therburg of La Crosse, and Eva Pearl, wife of Frank Bellis of Montana. Sanford helped raise the two Keener sons.
Sanford had a large apple orchard in Arkansas. This place he later traded for 80 acres in Section 17, town of Wilson, Dunn County, Wis. It was in 1895 when they took possession and he found 30 acres cleared, and a log house on the place, which house he "sided up," also building an addition and plastering it all inside, which made it a comfortable dwelling. At the present time they have 54 acres of the land under the plow, the balance being in timber and pasture. He had made good progress in general farming and dairying, keeping grade Guernsey cattle. Sanford also raises hogs and has a one-acre orchard of bearing apple trees.
[Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin" (1925) pages 339-340]
Blanche Elizabeth Griffith was the daughter of Lewis A. B. and Amanda C. (Knode) Griffith, her parents, who were born in Virginia and Maryland, became settlers in Missouri and Iowa. She was one of eleven children, most born in Page County, Iowa.
Blanche married her first husband James Keener and had two sons:
1. Oscar born 11 Feb. 1883 in Audubon, Iowa.
2. Ralph born 1886 in Springview, Nebraska, and wed Ora Mae Rose in Baker, Fallon, Montana in 1922. Ralph enlisted in a Montana regiment after this country had entered the war, but owning to sickness saw no active service.
In Arkansas, Blanche married her second husband, Sanford Baum in June, 1894, she being his second wife. By his first wife, Emma (daughter of John Neal) who he married in 1876, Mr. Baum had two daughters, now grown: Leona M., wife of Fred Therburg of La Crosse, and Eva Pearl, wife of Frank Bellis of Montana. Sanford helped raise the two Keener sons.
Sanford had a large apple orchard in Arkansas. This place he later traded for 80 acres in Section 17, town of Wilson, Dunn County, Wis. It was in 1895 when they took possession and he found 30 acres cleared, and a log house on the place, which house he "sided up," also building an addition and plastering it all inside, which made it a comfortable dwelling. At the present time they have 54 acres of the land under the plow, the balance being in timber and pasture. He had made good progress in general farming and dairying, keeping grade Guernsey cattle. Sanford also raises hogs and has a one-acre orchard of bearing apple trees.
[Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin" (1925) pages 339-340]
Blanche married her first husband James Keener and had two sons:
1. Oscar born 11 Feb. 1883 in Audubon, Iowa.
2. Ralph born 1886 in Springview, Nebraska, and wed Ora Mae Rose in Baker, Fallon, Montana in 1922. Ralph enlisted in a Montana regiment after this country had entered the war, but owning to sickness saw no active service.
In Arkansas, Blanche married her second husband, Sanford Baum in June, 1894, she being his second wife. By his first wife, Emma (daughter of John Neal) who he married in 1876, Mr. Baum had two daughters, now grown: Leona M., wife of Fred Therburg of La Crosse, and Eva Pearl, wife of Frank Bellis of Montana. Sanford helped raise the two Keener sons.
Sanford had a large apple orchard in Arkansas. This place he later traded for 80 acres in Section 17, town of Wilson, Dunn County, Wis. It was in 1895 when they took possession and he found 30 acres cleared, and a log house on the place, which house he "sided up," also building an addition and plastering it all inside, which made it a comfortable dwelling. At the present time they have 54 acres of the land under the plow, the balance being in timber and pasture. He had made good progress in general farming and dairying, keeping grade Guernsey cattle. Sanford also raises hogs and has a one-acre orchard of bearing apple trees.
[Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin" (1925) pages 339-340]
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