When Elijah Blankenship was born on 17 June 1793, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, his father, Hezekiah Blankenship, was 35 and his mother, Rhoda Meador, was 23. He married Christena Fishburn about 1814, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 14 October 1840, in Macon, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Haysville Cemetery, Haysville, Macon, Tennessee, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (northern): variant of Blenkinsop . See also Blankinship , compare Blakenship .
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