About Will 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 1665, Elmwood Cemetery, Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee Parents: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty Spouses: Bettie Smith and Edith Rhea Jackson About Jimmy Full Name: James Bailey […]
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Family Stories: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty
As promised in my New Year’s Day post (although over two months late), today I published the first set of stories featuring an ancestral couple and their children. First up are my great-grandparents Thomas Leander “Lee” Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty of Hopkins County, Kentucky, and their seven children. Three of their children died young—daughter […]
Photo: Dick & Elvie Hankins Visiting in Greenville
About Dick Full Name: Thomas Richard “Dick” 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: Bettie Smith, Edith Rhea Jackson About Rhea Full Name: Edith Rhea Jackson […]
Photo: Mollie Hankins
About Mollie Full Name: Mary Madore “Mollie” Hankins Birth: 10 March 1863, Hopkins County, Kentucky Death: 7 February 1939, Hopkins County, Kentucky Burial: Grapevine Cemetery, Hopkins County, Kentucky Parents: Albert Elvie Hankins and Isabella Jane Goodloe Spouse: Henry Clements About Photo Location: Taken in Hopkins County by Henry Clements; unsure if this was before or […]
Photo: Lee Hankins, Young Man
About Lee About Photo Location: Taken in Hopkins County, Kentucky by Lee’s brother-in-law Henry T. Clements Date: Probably late 1870s Credit: Courtesy of Rick Thorpe
This Week in the Family History: December 27–31
Feature John D. Lanier (*2nd Great-uncle, McCauley) 180 Years Ago: John D. Lanier was born on 29 December 1840 in Randolph County, Alabama, to William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson. The family hasn’t been located in the 1850 census. By 1860, John was not listed with his parents and siblings. He was certainly old […]
This Week in the Family History: December 20–26
This Week in the Family History: December 6–12
Feature Joseph Smith Lanier and Nancy Jane Bennett (*Great-grandparents, McCauley) 152 Years Ago: Joseph Smith Lanier and Nancy Jane Bennett married on 10 December 1868 in Heard County, Georgia. Heard County’s courthouse burned in 1893, and marriage records prior to 1886 do not survive. The only place I’ve found the date and location of their […]
This Week in the Family History: November 29–December 5
109 Years Ago: Elmer Dennis Hopkins joined the U.S. Army on 4 December 1911 at Middlesboro in Bell County, Kentucky. He served in Troop E of the 15th Cavalry. Elmer took part in the internment of the Mexican Federal Army at Fort Bliss, Texas, after their evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico, in January 1914. Elmer was […]
This Week in the Family History: November 22–28
Hattie Eugenia Lanier married twice, both times on 27 November. 122 years ago, she married Virgil Slokum White on that date (1898) in Monroe County, Mississippi. Hattie and Sloke divorced sometime between 1910 and 1916. 104 years ago, she married William McRae on that date (1916) in Fulton County, Georgia. Hattie and William also divorced. […]