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January 23, 2012. This is Joan Bleazard Thomas (joan.thomas@comcast.net).

Thanks for all the emails letting me know that this website is being found, read and enjoyed.  This is definitely not a finished or a perfect project!  I decided that if I waited for this to be perfect it would never be here for all of John's descendants. Please help me by continuing to send me corrections, photos, stories, documents.  Hearing from you makes all my research and work worthwhile.  xo 
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Today is 03/28/2011 and thanks to Erica Merrell, there is a new story on Mary Jane Miller's (Wife #4) page.   Almost every day, I'm uploading pictures, stories and correcting obvious mistakes -- and this site is Public again.  

Oh, a problem!  At times when I click the Chronology tab above - there is nothing of interest. If that occurs, just click the name John Hopwood Bleazard at the left, and THEN click Chronology. The page contains information about "The Judge"   (Stan or Devon will need to help me with this problem). 

Love to all my cousins -   Joan Bleazard Thomas   

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Welcome to the John Hopwood Bleazard website, a place for the descendants of this interesting man to share information and stories.   There are obvious errors in some of the stories. I will not edit or correct the stories written by others.  With your help, I'll try to get the story correct in my/our JHB Story.  


John Hopwood Bleazard (Blazzard)

John Hopwood Bleazard was my great-great grandfather. John's 7th wife, Lydia Davis, was my great-great grandmother. 

Mark Hopwood Bleazard was my great grandfather. Annie Ison Danks was my great grandmother.

John William (Will) Bleazard was my grandfather. Louisa May Walker was my grandmother.

Mark Walker Bleazard was my father. Evelyn Dorothy Jenson was my mother.

I am Joan Bleazard (Thomas), and my husband is Arthur Kenneth Thomas.


I hope you enjoy your visit to this site! There are pictures and stories and just information. Some is colorful and some a bit dry, but all of it is a part of who we are today. Your input is welcome and encouraged. If you have questions, comments, corrections or contributions, please contact me at joan.thomas@comcast.net 

 

Notes from Joan

Sometimes I begin to believe that no one is reading this and that no one wants to help me with it.  Please tell me I am wrong :-)

Today is 5/20/2010 and I'm thinking that the little Mary Ann Bleazard who is listed on Find-a-Grave and on some family groups sheets and in stories as the daughter of Mary Jane Miller - may in fact be the 1st child of Lydia Davis.

I'm thinking that Mary Jane Miller birthed Sarah Ann while in Nauvoo, and that her second child was a SON who was born in Salt Lake. I don't have any information about a little Mary Ann daughter of Mary Jane Miller, do you have such information? If so, please let me know.

 Feb 18, 2010.  Please click on the JHB Story tab and send me the correct Name and Birth/Death dates for John's father. 

July 21, 2009 - Hiya folks, Devon here. Glad to be on board to offer whatever help I can in making this site as user friendly and fun as possible. It may be an ongoing process, so bear with us during the renovation!

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October 25, 2009 

Devon is using her considerable talents and helping make this Family History site  "one of the most entertaining, interesting and informational family history sites on the net."      This quote is from an email I received a few days ago.  

I hope all the many descendants and families of Blazzards and Bleazards are enjoying life and managing to do so even as we (all) struggle to make sense out of and survive the politics and problems of life.  Life is much too brief to waste our time in fear and sorrow.   One need only read all the stories on here to know that soon our lives, too, will be a 'story' someone may or may not write.

 ENJOY and LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 

joan