Photo: Hankins Brothers & Their Wives

About Dick

• Full Name: Thomas Richard Hankins
• Birth: 13 February 1880, Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky
• Death: 11 January 1965, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
• Burial: 13 January 1965, Elmwood Cemetery, Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee
• Parents: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty
• Spouses: 1) Bettie Smith, 2) Edith Rhea Jackson

About Rhea

• Full Name: Edith Rhea Jackson
• Birth: 26 September 1883, Tennessee
• Death: 25 August 1959, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
• Burial: Elmwood Cemetery, Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee
• Parents: William H. Jackson and Susan Pope
• Spouse: Thomas Richard Hankins

About Jimmy

• Full Name: James Bailey Hankins
• Birth: 27 March 1091, Dalton, Hopkins County, Kentucky
• Death: 26 November 1974, Carlsbad, San Diego County, California
• Burial: Cremated, ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California
• Parents: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty
• Spouses: 1) Rachel Lesh, 2) Lucille Goldie McCord

About Rae

• Full Name: Rachel Lesh
• Birth: 16 June 1903, Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, Washington
• Death: 9 May 1967, San Diego County, California
• Burial: unknown
• Parents: James R. Lesh and Gay Reagan
• Spouses: 1) John Chalenor, 2) James Bailey Hankins

About Ethel

• Full Name: Ethel Mayalvora Alvord
• Birth: 4 May 1895, Seattle, King County, Washington
• Death: 30 December 1948, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
• Burial: Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
• Parents: Frank Alvord and Katherine Kleckner
• Spouses: 1) Ernest P. Williamson, 2) James B. Powers, 3) Arthur Raymond Riefhoff, 4) Albert Elvie Hankins

About Elvie

• Full Name: Albert Elvie Hankins
• Birth: 16 October 1882, Dalton, Hopkins County, Kentucky
• Death: 7 June 1959, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
• Burial: Pines Cemetery, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
• Parents: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty
• Spouses: 1) Mary Ella Edmonds, 2) Frances McDavitt, 3) Kathryne Wilcox, 4) Harriett Edna Ellis, 5) Ethel Maylavora Alvord, 6) Bernice Jackson

About Photo

• Location: Jimmy and Rae’s home at 4823 Satsuma Avenue, Los Angeles, California
• Date: 1948
• Event: Dick (from Birmingham, Alabama) and Elvie (from Spokane, Washington) visiting Jimmy
• Credit: From photo collection of Margaret Wells Wiggins; previously owned by Vashti McCauley Wells, deceased (niece of the Hankins brothers)

Relationships

• Among Photo Subjects: Dick, Jimmy, & Elvie: brothers; Rhea: Dick’s wife; Rae: Jimmy’s wife; Ethel: Elvie’s wife
• To Author: Dick, Jimmy, & Elvie: great-uncles (brothers of paternal grandmother)