George Blank and Linda Love

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Husband George Blank ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Jan 1858 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: George Adam Blank (1831-Abt 1894) 1 2
         Mother: Lavinia Catherine Baum (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 14 May 1885 2

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Wife Linda Love ²

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         Father: Benjamin Love (      -Bef 1918) 2
         Mother: Susan Miller (      -Bef 1918) 2

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Children

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1 F Nellie Blank ²

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         Spouse: Charles Kalp (      -      ) 2

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2 F Lettie Blank ²

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         Spouse: James Kalp (      -      ) 2

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3 F Pearl Blank ²

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         Spouse: James Bortz (      -      ) 2

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4 F Jennie Blank ²

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5 F Anna Blank ²

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6 F Mary Blank ²

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7 M Roy Blank ²

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8 F Hazel Blank ²

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General Notes: Husband - George Blank

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He was born on a farm in Hempfield township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the property which was later the farm of John J. Blank, and which was situated one mile northeast of Greensburg. He continued to reside there during his childhood and early youth, removing therefrom when he had reached the completion of his twenty-fifth year and was married. His married life was spent in Penn, Salem and Unity townships, in the second of which places he bought a farm and lived for some eight years. It was in 1904 that he purchased another place, which had been known as the John Walters farm, and which was situated in Unity township, six miles southeast of Greensburg. Before it was the property of Mr. Walters, it was the home of one of the Jamisons, who were among the most successful coal operators in the region. This Mr. Jamison erected the house, while the barn was built by Mr. Walters. The property originally consisted of eighty-six acres, but to this, Mr. Blank added fifty more, which were adjacent to it. At one corner of this farm, about forty years ago, there centered the greatest oil interests ever known in Westmoreland County. Here a fine flowing stream of oil was struck and great excitement was at once created in the neighborhood. Leases of lands were eagerly sought and there were many visions of a city's rising in this location, the prosperity of which was to be based on the oil supply. Unfortunately, however, the supply was speedily exhausted and the end came as suddenly as the beginning. Mr. Blank, in association with his brother, Solon Blank, operated for a number of years a threshing outfit, with which they did the threshing for a large number of the neighboring farms. They formed a partnership and were widely known as the possessors of an excellent machine, George Blank earning a reputation as a good mechanic and a successful thresherman. In politics he was a Democrat, and served at various times on the school boards of Salem and Unity township. In the matter of religious belief Mr. Blank was a Lutheran and attended, with the other members of his family, the old Ridge Lutheran Church.
He took a keen interest in genealogy, particularly in connection with the origin of his own family, and made an expedition into Berks County, the original home of his great-grandfather, who died in 1758, one hundred years before Mr. Blank's birth. This great-grandfather came from the Scotch Highlands to the American colonies at a very early date. He married a French lady, and for many generations French traits and characteristics were obvious among her descendants. In spite of their origin, however, the early members of the family all spoke German as they settled in the midst of a German colony in America.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 645.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1071.