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212 Years Ago: Barnabas Hankins and Sarah Fox
Barnabas Hankins married Sarah Fox on 1 January 1811 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Rev. John Bourland performed the ceremony. Barnabas obtained the license the day before on 31 December 1810.
Barnabas and Sarah were both born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and lived there before migrating to Hopkins County with their families. Rev. Bourland also came to Hopkins County from Wilkes County by 1810.
Barnabas’s parents were John Hankins and Sarah Gill. Sarah’s parents were Titus Fox and Elizabeth Wright. Both father’s were Revolutionary War soldiers. The Hankins family moved to Wilkes County from Culpeper County, Virginia, after the Revolutionary War. The Fox family lived in Wilkes County during the war.
The Fox family was in Hopkins County by 1807, when Titus first appears on the county’s tax list. The Hankins family was in Hopkins County by 1810 based on census records. John Hankins first appeared on the tax list in 1812, but Barnabas was on the list in 1811, without land.
Whether or not the Hankins and Fox families knew each other in Wilkes County has not been determined. But the families appear to have been close, at least after they settled in Hopkins County. Barnabas’s sister Nancy married Sarah’s brother James on 29 January 1812. And Sarah’s sister Rachel married Barnabas’s brother Timothy on 24 August 1816.
Relationship: Hankins Line, 4th Great-Grandparents
McCauley/Lanier Line
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- Relationship: Paternal 1st cousin
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- Relationship: Brother of paternal grandfather, John William McCauley
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Hankins Line
277 Years Ago: Benjamin Waller
- Married: Martha Hall, 2 January 1746, Virginia
- Parents: John Waller and Dorothy King
- Relationship: Brother of 6th great-grandfather John Waller
269 Years Ago: Dorothy Elizabeth Waller
- Born: 2 January 1754, Virginia
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- Relationship: 1st cousin of 5th great-grandmother Dorothy Waller
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- Born: 7 January 1764, Virginia
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- Relationship: 1st cousin of 5th great-grandmother Dorothy Waller
257 Years Ago: George Goodloe
- Born: 4 January 1766, Caroline County, Virginia
- Parents: Henry Goodloe and Frances Diana Kemp
- Relationship: Brother of 5th great-grandfather Thomas Allen Goodloe
257 Years Ago: Daniel Fox
- Born: 1 January 1766
- Parent: James Fox
- Relationship: Brother of 5th great-grandfather Titus Fox
241 Years Ago: Amelia Fox
- Born: 2 January 1782, Wilkes County, North Carolina
- Parents: Titus Fox and Elizabeth Wright
- Relationship: Sister of 4th great-grandmother Sarah Fox
177 Years Ago: Jane Goodloe
- Married: William D. Davis, 7 January 1846, Hopkins County, Kentucky
- Parents: Henry Lewis Goodloe and Elizabeth Berry
- Relationship: Sister of 3rd great-grandfather John Emerson Goodloe
174 Years Ago: John Emerson Goodloe
- Married: Elizabeth Pettus (2nd wife), 2 January 1849, Hopkins County, Kentucky
- Parents: Henry Lewis Goodloe and Elizabeth Berry
- Relationship: 3rd great-grandfather
164 Years Ago: Mary Elizabeth Hankins
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- Parents: Houston G. Hankins and Mary Weeks
- Relationship: Sister of 2nd great-grandfather Albert Elvie Hankins
162 Years Ago: Almeda Smith
- Born: 6 January 1861, Kentucky
- Parents: Henry Clay Smith and Martha Howton
- Relationship: Sister-in-law of great-grandfather Thomas Leander Hankins
153 Years Ago: Mary Rebecca Cornelison
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- Parents: James Wilborn Cornelison and Elizabeth Owens
- Relationship: Sister-in-law of great-grandmother Samantha Angeline Petty
149 Years Ago: Isabella Jane Goodloe
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- Parents: John Emerson Goodloe and Eliza Ann Dobyns
- Relationship: 2nd great-grandmother
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- Relationship: Brother-in-law of 2nd great-grandfather John R. Petty
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- Parents: John R. Petty and Margaret E. Thomas
- Relationship: Great-grandmother
Hopkins Line
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- Relationship: Brother of 10th great-grandmother Mary Bosworth
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- Relationship: 1st cousin of great-grandfather James Arton Hopkins
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- Relationship: Great-grandfather
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Taylor Line
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- Relationship: 2nd great-grandfather
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- Born: 1 January 1843, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
- Parents: Allen Owens and Mary Kilbourn
- Relationship: 1st cousin of 2nd great-grandfather Madison Crawford Owens
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- Married: Mary Elizabeth Fletcher, 7 January 1880, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
- Parents: James Francis Taylor and Margaret E. Ramsey
- Relationship: Brother of great-grandfather John Cook Taylor
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- Married: Lula Owens, 2 January 1919, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
- Parents: William Thomas Taylor and Mary Elizabeth Fletcher
- Relationship: 1st cousin of maternal grandmother, Emma Ewers Taylor
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- Parents: James Francis Taylor and Margaret E. Ramsey
- Relationship: Brother of great-grandfather John Cook Taylor
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- Relationship: 1st cousin of maternal grandmother, Emma Ewers Taylor
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- Died: 5 January 2000, Rockcastle County, Kentucky, age 86
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- Relationship: 1st cousin of maternal grandmother, Emma Ewers Taylor
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McCauley/Hankins Photos
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