DEATH TAKES NATIVE MAN 
Walter Blanton Is Accident Victim 
Walter Blanton, 56, native of this county, died Tuesday at 11 p.m. at his home in Kermit, West Virginia. His death was caused by complications from a broken shoulder which he sustained in a fall from a drilling machine on which he had been working. His condition apparently was improving until a few hours before his death. Mr. Blanton was the son of James M. and Sarah McCarty Blanton. He was married to Sally Prichard on November 14, 1907. Surviving besides his widow are five children, James Morrison of Kermit, W. Va.; Dixie, Oil Springs, Ollie, Staffordsville, Mabel, Dayton, Ohio, Monnie, Galveston, Texas, eleven grandchildren, also one brother, Kendrick, Kenwood, two sisters, Mrs. Laura Lemaster, Win, and Mrs. Virgie Cullett, Red Bush and a host of relatives and friends. Funeral services were held on Friday at the Old Union Church at Staffordsville by Rev. Lonza Reed and F. F. Riggsby of Paintsville, and Rev. Harlan Montgomery of Winchester. Burial was made in the J. W. Jaynes Cemetery near the mouth of Mud Lick under the direction of the Jones Funeral Home. Paintsville Herald Thursday 02-28-1946