Blanche was born in 1873, in Pinto, Utah, the eleventh of Richard Smith Robinson and Elizabeth Wotton’s thirteen children. Though she preferred to be called “Sarah,” family and friends referred to her as “Blanche.”
While she was still a young child the Robinson family was called to Alton to operate the Cannon Dairy for the L.D.S. Church. Here they suffered the hardships of early pioneer ranch life. They lived as one large family so night after night they burned the midnight candles, busily sewing, patching, darning, and running the spindle wheel to keep the family clothed.
So she grew up with the knowledge of managing a home well. Sometimes there were as many as twenty-one living at the old ranch home. Blanche often said they knew nothing of half-brothers and sisters. They grew up with a love for each other that lasted through the years.
She married Walter Eugene Hamblin in 1897, at age twenty-three. Blanche was very attractive with beautiful brown eyes and dark brown hair. She was “thrifty, ambitious and scrupulously clean”; and, following her motto that “anything worth doing is worth doing well,” her sewing was impeccable, as was her cooking and housework. She stitched buttonholes that were a work of art.
When Blanche took office she was 38 yrs. old with six children (Ages 2-14). In all, she had seven children between 1893 and 1915. She died in 1945 and was buried in Kanab.