1875 Birth:415 Birth year of 1875 estimated from age (5 years) in 1880 census enumeration. [Question: Is Blanche perhaps a daughter from a previous marriage of Edward? Edward Phillips and Lucy Bay were married in 1878.]

1880 U.S. Census:415 Blanche enumerated in the household of her father Edward D. Phillips in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana as a white female, age 5, daughter, single, born in Indiana, father born in New Jersey, mother born in Indiana.