This Week in the Family History: June 7–13

Feature: Albert Elvie Hankins

61 Years Ago: Albert Elvie Hankins died on 7 June 1959 in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas while traveling.¹Texas Department of State Health Services, death certificate 31916 (1959), Albert E. Hankins; digital image, “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” Family Search (www.familysearch.org : accessed 25 December 2012). When I first became interested in genealogy, I asked older family members lots of questions. Four paternal aunts all “remembered” that Uncle Elvie died in Arizona after becoming ill during a flight and requiring an emergency landing. They were unsure of the exact date or even year but thought it was in the late 1950s or early 1960s.²Elizabeth McCauley Carver, Lois McCauley Dockins, Kathryn McCauley Tomes, and Jimmie McCauley Knight, all nieces of Albert Elvie Hankins, interview by Linda McCauley during multiple visits in 2003; notes privately held by interviewer.

I had no luck confirming that but for years accepted it. Then one day I did a generic search for Uncle Elvie on FamilySearch and up popped a Texas Death Certificate.  It turned out that he died in El Paso after being hospitalized there for two days.³Texas death certificate 31916 (1959), Albert E. Hankins. Elvie lived in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, at the time, so my aunts’ story about him dying while traveling was true. They just had the wrong location. Elvie was buried in Pines Cemetery in Spokane.⁴“Albert Hankins is Dead,” Spokane (Washington) Daily Chronicle, 11 Jun 1959, p. 21, col. 4; digital images, Google News (news.google.com : accessed 25 December 2012). (*Great-uncle, Hankins)

June 8

135 Years Ago: John Cook Taylor married Sarah Ramsey on 8 June 1885 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. (*Great-grandfather, Taylor)

141 Years Ago: August Krueger was born on 8 June 1879 Lemgo, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He was the son of Fritz Krueger and Henrietta Pramer. (*Husband of Great-aunt, Taylor)

June 10

82 Years Ago: John Houston Hankins died on 10 June 1938 in Providence, Webster County, Kentucky. He was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in neighboring Hopkins County. John was the son of Albert Elvie Hankins and Isabella Jean Goodloe. (*2nd Great-uncle, Hankins)

102 Years Ago: Anna Rose Taylor was born on 10 June 1918 in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Cook Taylor and Emma Jane Owens. (*Great-aunt, Taylor)

126 Years Ago: James Francis Taylor died on 10 June 1894 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. He was buried there in Ramsey-Taylor Cemetery. Jim was the son of William Taylor and Martha Ramsey. (*2nd Great-grandfather, Taylor)

159 Years Ago: Martha Ann Taylor was born on 10 June 1861 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of James Francis Taylor and Margaret E. Ramsey. (*2nd Great-aunt, Taylor)

June 12

128 Years Ago: Lena M. Taylor was born on 12 June 1892 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Margaret Lula Taylor. (*1st Cousin, twice removed, Taylor)

161 Years Ago: Frances Elizabeth Lanier was born on 12 June 1859 in Georgia. She was the daughter of William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson. (*2nd Great-aunt, McCauley)

June 13

162 Years Ago: Thomas Leander Hankins was born on 13 June 1858 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. He was the son of Albert Elvie Hankins and Isabella Jean Goodloe. (*Great-grandfather, Hankins)

 

*Each person’s relationship to me and the surname of the grandparent through which the relationship falls are in parentheses at the end of each item. Please email me for additional information. Additional sources available upon request.