C. S. BLANTON, Caldwell County, was born in the city of Paris, Henry Co., Tenn., January 22, 1842. His father, John W. Blanton, was a native of Frankfort, Ky., and for many years a leading physician of Paris, Tenn., at which place he died in 1855. Willis Blanton, subject's grandfather, came from Virginia many years ago, and settled at Frankfort, Ky. He was a skillful civil engineer, and at one time held the responsible position of State surveyor of Kentucky. Subject's mother, Elizabeth Ann Blanton, was a daughter of William Samuels, a native of Woodford County, Ky. She died in 1850, at the age of forty-two or forty-three years. C. S. Blanton is the third of a family of six children. His youth was spent in his native town, where he received the advantages of a liberal education, attending the common schools of Paris, and later took a year's course at Bethel College, McLeansboro, Tenn. In 1855 he went to Louisiana, and located near Port Hudson, where he resided until 1860, and three years later he engaged as clerk with the mercantile firm of Kay & Sherer, Paducah, Ky., remaining in that city for a period of nine or ten years, part of which time he was book-keeper in the office of his father-in-law, Col. John C. Noble, editor of the Paducah Herald. His marriage to Miss Maria E. Noble took place September 25, 1866. In 1873 Mr. Blanton left Paducah, and moved to Fredonia, Caldwell County, where he clerked in a general goods business, which he continued for one year, for John F. Harris, of Paducah. He next established a drug store at Fredonia, which he conducted for a short time. In the latter year he moved to Princeton, and engaged in the manufacture and sale of furniture, his present business. Mr. and Mrs. Blanton are the parents of two children: Elizabeth C. and Jennie B. Mr. Blanton, in politics, votes with the Democratic party.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Pages 689-690.