Seven generations from a War of 1812 veteran to a Beech High catcher keeping the records today. This is the family's home on the web — the tree, the cemetery, and the stories — kept by Donald Anthony “Tony” Blunkall of Goodlettsville.
If you Googled Blunkall or Blunkhall and landed here, you are probably kin. Stay a while.
Born October 19, 1973 at Baptist Hospital in downtown Nashville, raised in Hendersonville, Beech Senior High School Class of 1991 — catcher on the Buccaneers baseball team. Tony lives in Goodlettsville, attends the Enrichment Center in Gallatin, and has spent years pulling wills, plats, death certificates, and obituaries so the next Blunkall doesn't have to start from scratch. Conflicts in the records are kept, not smoothed over — if two sources disagree, you'll see both here.
Searching for Tony Blunkall? This is his page. Full name: Donald Anthony Blunkall — also listed in records as Donald A. Blunkall — of Goodlettsville and Hendersonville, Tennessee, Beech High School Class of 1991.
Tap a line to switch. Use search to find a person by name — it looks across all three lines, and if the name isn't one of these cards, it searches all 646 people in the Kin Index below for you. Every line is written the family way: born X; best known for Y — with exact cousin terms where they matter.
Not in these three lines? Every branch is in the Kin Index right below — all 646 people from the full merged tree, searchable by name.
Born 1783/84; best known as the War of 1812 veteran at the top of this line. Service confirmed in NARA records (RG 15, warrant No. 1007). Married Martha M. Ladd. Tony matches his 1812 description — 5'9", blue eyes, formerly dark hair.
Born 1829; best known as the Nashville gardener whose 1899 will (Davidson County Will Book 35, p. 382) names Mattie Kirby and Sally Scruggs. Married Susan Judd. Tony holds a physical copy of the will.
Born 1877; best known for the “G.W. (JACK)” stone that anchors Blunkall–Bennett Cemetery. Married Mellverean A. Duke. His death certificate confirms him as William & Susan's son — headstone reads July 28, certificate says July 27. Both dates kept.
Born 1879; best known as “Mell.” Her real name was Mellverean — not Alice. Parents Isaac Duke and Hixey Carney, confirmed 2026. Buried with Jack at Blunkall–Bennett Cemetery.
Born in Ridgetop, TN; best known as Datdaddy — Metro Nashville Fire Department firefighter and mechanic, one of six children of Jack & Mellverean. Died of Parkinson's complications. Tony loves and misses him.
Born 1904; best known as Nannie. Married Clarence July 16, 1927 — license July 11, ceremony July 16, proven from the record. Died in Ridgetop. Clarence & Georgia are at Woodlawn Memorial Park — not the family cemetery.
Born 1944 in Nashville; best known as a pharmacist and Tony's dad. Married Rebecca “Becky” A. Russell. Planning a Blunkall–Bennett Cemetery visit with Tony.
Born 1973; best known as the family historian keeping this site — and as Beech High's 1991 catcher. Brother Jeff (b. Apr 12, 1968, Beech '86) and sister Anna Lee Mason (b. July 6, 1975).
Born 1998; best known as Tony's niece — Anna Lee's daughter, a nurse at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville and a David Lipscomb University graduate.
Born 1907; best known for living to 100. Son of William Pinkney Russell & Bertha Ann Townes Russell (m. 1907, Rutherford County). Tennessean obituary Aug 31, 2008.
Born 1919; best known as Meme — who gave Tony half pieces of gum at Madison Church of Christ. “Mira Lee” is the exact spelling. Father: Stanley Wright. Her mother's identity is conflicted in sources — Annie Burnett (single-source lead) vs. Margaret Annie Waggoner on Tom Russell's 2000 pedigree chart. Both kept.
Married 1907 in Rutherford County. William's birth year is genuinely conflicted — the 1979 book implies 1878, the 1900 census says July 1879, Tony states 1879.
Daughter of Clarence Wilson Russell and Mira Lee Wright of Jefferson Springs, Rutherford County. Brothers: Tommy Russell (Fayetteville) and Ken Russell (1942–2016, of Paris, TN).
Best known as author of A History of the Russell Homeplace (1979) as Tom L. Russell. Tony found his own copy Sept 30, 2026 — 519 pages, family-held, no public catalog match.
Family called her Aunt Jennie (distinct from Jennie Lynn Russell). Husband Erskine Pond Ausbrooks Jr. (1929–2017) was Hendersonville's first popularly elected mayor, 1986–1988.
Georgia Grace Gupton's family. A dedicated 214-person Gupton tree is kept separately. If your line runs through Gupton in Sumner or Davidson County, check that tree first.
The names that marry in: Duke (Mellverean, Isaac Duke & Hixey Carney), Ladd (Martha M. Ladd, Robert's wife), Judd (Susan Judd, William's wife), and Wright (Stanley Wright, Mira Lee's father).
A separate Wharton family line under research, including “Ann's People: The Whartons of Ilkley.” Kept in its own research file so it doesn't get tangled with the Tennessee Blunkalls.
This site uses exact terms — first cousin once removed, second cousin, three times removed — not just “cousin.” Terms are computed from the nearest common ancestors for one chosen anchor (Tony), the Datdaddy's Family format: one line per person, uncertainty in plain words like “probable” or “possibly.”
Every person in Tony's merged Entire Family Tree is listed here — all eight branch trees in one index: Blunkall, Russell–Blunkall, Missouri Blunkall, California Blunkall, Russell, Gupton, Dodds, and Wharton. Search by name — maiden and married names both work, and so do nicknames like Datdaddy, Nannie, and Meme. A person's real nickname is printed in quotes right in their heading, so the name you searched by is the name you see — search “Sonny” and the entry reads James Edward “Sonny” Blunkall. Short forms work too (“Jen” finds Jennifer), and so do close spellings (“Bierly” finds Bierley) — if nothing matches exactly, the closest names are shown instead of an empty result. You can leave out a middle name: “Georgia Gupton” finds Georgia Grace Gupton, and “Clarence Russell” finds Clarence Wilson Russell. Under each name is their relationship to Tony, computed from the family links in the tree itself, with their parents, spouse, and children listed too — exactly as the file links them. Where the links don't connect a person back to Tony, they're labeled by a family connection the file does support, or by branch alone. Years are shown exactly as the tree file has them. Living people are listed by name only for dates — their relationship and family names are still shown.
Real photographs only, from Tony's own labeled family archive — no stand-ins and no reimaginings. The starter set starts with Jack and his wife Mell. The frame below is waiting on Tony's pick of the original print; if you hold a photo of Datdaddy and Nannie, email Tony.
The man behind the “G.W. (JACK)” stone at Blunkall–Bennett Cemetery, in his later years — hat, beard, and all. From Tony's family files.
Awaiting the original print from Tony's labeled Family Photos archive
The Nashville firefighter and his wife of 1927. Tony picks which print goes here — only the real Datdaddy and Nannie belong in this frame.
Jack's wife, in a hand-tinted portrait from her younger years. Buried beside him at Blunkall–Bennett Cemetery. From Tony's family files.
Artwork for now. Photographs from Tony's own visits — stones, plot, and the Tyne Boulevard setting, watermarked “© DABlunkall” as he does — will take this spot.
The catch-all album — random family photos that don't belong to one ancestor's card: reunions, get-togethers, old snapshots, whoever and whenever. This album starts empty on purpose; every photo here will be a real one Tony sends in. Tony — send any random family photo and say “put it in Family Photos,” and it lands in one of these frames, captioned the way you label it.
Waiting for a family photo from Tony
Any family photo Tony sends — no ancestor assignment needed. It will be captioned with the names and date as Tony labels them.
Waiting for a family photo from Tony
Reunions, holidays, front-porch snapshots — if it's family, it fits here. Send it to Tony's way and it goes up as-is, real photo only.
Waiting for a family photo from Tony
More frames get added as photos come in — this album grows one real photograph at a time.
Waiting for a family photo from Tony
Hold a family photo that belongs here? Email it to Tony with who's in it, and he'll place it.
On Tyne Boulevard in Nashville — found, platted, and confirmed. This is where Jack and Mellverean rest, and where the work is now: prove it, protect it, and get family back through the gate.
Tony was born at Baptist Hospital downtown, Jack died in Nashville in 1960, William gardened in Nashville, Clarence fought fires for Metro Nashville. The Cumberland runs through every generation.
Start with the cemetery (above), then Woodlawn Memorial Park for Clarence & Georgia. For records in person:
The earliest known Blunkall in this line. He will serve in the War of 1812.
Robert's service later confirmed through NARA RG 15, warrant No. 1007.
Son of Robert & Martha. Nashville gardener.
George Washington Blunkall, William & Susan Judd's son.
Davidson County Will Book 35, p. 382. William dies 1899; Susan Judd Blunkall is his wife.
Clarence Blunkall born Dec 6 in Ridgetop. Clarence Wilson Russell born Dec 4. William Pinkney Russell & Bertha Townes marry in Rutherford County.
License July 11, ceremony July 16, 1927 — proven from the record.
Ernest Wayne Blunkall, future pharmacist.
July 27 per death certificate (stone says July 28). Buried Blunkall–Bennett Cemetery with Mellverean.
Donald Anthony Blunkall, Baptist Hospital, downtown Nashville. Raised in Hendersonville.
Tom L. Russell publishes A History of the Russell Homeplace.
Tony graduates from Beech Senior High — catcher for the Buccaneers, American Legion Post baseball after.
Cemetery shown on Lot 1 with its 20-foot visitor easement.
Aug 29, 2008. Tennessean obituary Aug 31.
Cemetery located and confirmed Nov 5, 2026. “The Blunkalls” Facebook group created Nov 8, 2026. This website launched.
Distant cousins find this page by Googling the name — that's the whole point of putting it on the open web instead of only on Facebook. If a name above matches your tree, Tony wants to hear from you. The best first message says: who you descend from, where your people lived, and what record or photo you hold.
Search variants to try: Blunkall, Blunkhall, and phonetic spellings. Check both the Gupton tree and the Russell book lines before you rule a match out.
Living people's private details aren't posted on this public page. One family member is held off the public trees at Tony's direction — ask privately if you notice a gap.