Individual Details
Bishop John BLANK Jr.
(Abt 1755 - 2 July 1835)
He moved to Lancaster County on the farm between White Horse and Gap, where Christian Glick, minister in the Amish Church recently lived. He married Barbara King in 1778, and moved to Ledger, now Spring Garden, in 1780.
Here they lived and worked in the pioneer days. Sixteen years later on July 2, 1794, the Lord called the mother from her family and her earthly home to her heavenly home. Her body was laid to rest on the home farm. This was the first grave in the well cared for Blank Cemetery. About one mile north of Spring Garden, PA. How often this bereft father and children could look across the field to Mother's grave.
Day and nights their hearts would wander
To a grave not far away
Where they laid their darling Mother
On that sad July day.
There her body now is resting
Neath the warm and silent clay,
Til her Lord will come again
On the Resurrection Day.
His second wife was Barbara Yoder. She died in 1837. Bishop John was bishop from 1831 til his death in 1835. He had three sons in the ministry.
In later years the Blank family owned three adjoining farms.
There were also five generations named Blank who lived in this homestead. There are five generations carrying the Blank name whose bodies are resting in this cemetery. Also some of the sixth generation named Stoltzfus.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1755 | Of , Lancaster, Pennsylvania |  | ||
| Marriage | 1778 | Barbara KING | | ||
| Marriage | Aft 1794 | Barbara YODER | | ||
| Death | 2 July 1835 | | |||
| Burial | Spring Garden Cemetery, Salisbury Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania | | |||
| Biography-shared | (John BLANK) |  | |
Families
| Spouse | Barbara KING (1752 - 1794) |
| Child | Maria BLANK (1780 - 1848) |
| Child | Anna BLANK (1782 - 1856) |
| Child | John BLANK (1784 - 1846) |
| Child | Jacob BLANK (1786 - ) |
| Child | Samuel BLANK (1788 - 1844) |
| Child | Barbara BLANK (1790 - 1873) |
| Child | Elizabeth BLANK (1792 - 1874) |
| Child | Christian BLANK (1794 - 1844) |
| Spouse | Barbara YODER ( - 1837) |
| Child | Esther BLANK (1797 - 1799) |
| Child | Sarah BLANK (1799 - 1862) |
| Child | Rachel BLANK (1802 - 1873) |
| Child | Daniel BLANK (1805 - ) |
| Father | John BLANK (1723 - 1794) |
| Mother | Mary Catherine EICHELMAN (1723 - 1794) |
| Sibling | Melchior/Michael BLANK ( - ) |
| Sibling | Jacob BLANK ( - ) |
| Sibling | Nicholas BLANK ( - ) |
| Sibling | Bishop Peter BLANK (1753 - 1831) |
| Sibling | Catherine BLANK (1761 - ) |
| Sibling | Barbara BLANK ( - ) |
| Sibling | Christian BLANK ( - ) |
| Sibling | Mary BLANK ( - ) |
Notes
Biography-shared
"As the research of the early Blancks in Spring Garden, formerly Ledger, and the early Blauncks in Cains are studied they do not link together in relationship in America. It is also found that "Blank" is a French name, translated in German it's wise and in English it's white."Bishop John Blank is the son of Hanes H. Blanck who lived between Schoeneck and Denver, formerly Union Station, just west of the Cocalico Creek. The farm was over 300 acres and today part of the farm is owned by John Brubaker. An old cemetery is on top of the hill, and old stone wall around it, with some of Hanes H. Blanck's descendants buried there. In the corner of the graveyard are two old stones without any marking which is believed to be Hanes Blanck and his wife, Mary Eichelman.
"Hanes H. Blank has left a record of nine children, John, Christian, Jacob, Nicholas, Peter, Michael, Barbara, wife of Abraham Kurtz, Marie, wife of Bernard Wolf, and Catharine, wife of John King.
"We also find on the ship list of St. Andrew, Sept. 23, 1752, Hanes (H) Blanck and the names of his first four mentioned sons."
Endnotes
1. Sadie R. Blank Mast, 1963, R.D. 1, Gap Pennsylvania, Bishop John Blank and Family.
2. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
3. Sadie R. Blank Mast, 1963, R.D. 1, Gap Pennsylvania, Bishop John Blank and Family.
4. Mast, J. Lemar and Lois Ann, As Long as the Wood Grows and Water Flows, A History of the Conestoga Mennonite Church (1982, Conestoga Mennonite Church, Morgantown, PA 19543).
5. John F. Murray, 303 E. Indiana, Kouts, IN 46347, Blank - Plank Ancestry.
6. "Blank" Family Burials, Lancaster Co., PA.
7. Sadie R. Blank Mast, 1963, R.D. 1, Gap Pennsylvania, Bishop John Blank and Family.
8. Mast, J. Lemar and Lois Ann, As Long as the Wood Grows and Water Flows, A History of the Conestoga Mennonite Church (1982, Conestoga Mennonite Church, Morgantown, PA 19543).
9. also Blank family cemetery near Gap, Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Grave markers.
10. Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, PA, p. 898 (1903 J. H. Beers & Co).
11. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
12. "Blank" Family Burials, Lancaster Co., PA.
13. Mast, J. Lemar and Lois Ann, As Long as the Wood Grows and Water Flows, A History of the Conestoga Mennonite Church (1982, Conestoga Mennonite Church, Morgantown, PA 19543).
14. also Blank family cemetery near Gap, Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Grave markers.
15. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
16. "Blank" Family Burials, Lancaster Co., PA.