The Blandinsville Illinois School 1870
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In the middle 1870s, our ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his son-in-law William Franklin McVey bought a bank in the Illinois town of Blandinsville in McDonough County. The Pancake and McVey families moved from Ohio to Blandinsville. Many of the children of Samuel and Catharine Pancake were school age at the time. This school was built in 1868 and thus was just a few years old when these families took up residence here.