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James Hanks
23 Jan 1795 – 8 Jan 1856
| Birth | 23 Jan 1795 |
| Death | 8 Jan 1856 |
| Cemetery | Greenwood Cemetery Decatur , Macon County , Illinois , USA |
| Added by | Leslie Robbins Martin on 23 Oct 2008 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30795346 |
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Hello! Thanks for being in charge of this memorial! I have two suggested changes (or notes, or observations), which are founded on the theory that this stone is actually incorrect in two respects. a. Even though the stone itself, and his wife's obituary, say that James Hanks died in 1856, there is voluminous documentary evidence that he actually died about early January 1852 -- possibly 8 Jan 1852, if the 8 Jan date one sometimes sees is correct. (The Macon County records of the administration of his estate by his son Isaac Hanks, which are microfilmed and available on Ancestry.com, show pretty definitively that he was recently dead as of 20 January 1852. Isaac Hanks filed an administrator's bond on 20 Jan 1852. The estate was inventoried and appraised on 21 Jan 1852. There was an estate sale on 17 Feb 1852. In the early part of the file his daughter Nancy is listed as the widow of Abraham Miller; in the later part of the file, she is listed as the wife of Andrew S. Muirheid, whom she is known to have married 27 May 1852.) I will upload some documents from this file for you to consider. b. Additionally, I wonder if the middle initial "L" can be properly attributed to this James Hanks. His brother, John Hanks (1802-1889), the rail splitting associate of Lincoln's, I think had a son named James Lewis Hanks. But here I think it may be a mistaken retrojection by the people who commissioned the replacement marker. Thanks for reading! Very respectfully, Matthew H. Seeger Contributor: Anonymous (46848506)
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Family
Parents
Spouse
Siblings
- Nancy Hanks Miller 1794–1873
- William T. Hanks Jr 1796–1846
- Charles Hanks 1798–1863
- Pvt John I. Hanks 1802–1889
- Elisabeth Hanks Dillon 1804–1885
- Sarah Hanks Brown 1810–1884
- Joseph Hanks 1811–1845
- Lucinda Hanks Douglas 1813–1890
- Cecelia Hanks Wright 1814–1844
- Andrew Jackson Hanks 1815–1889
Children
- Isaac Hanks 1819–1866 FaG
- Nancy Hanks Miller Muirheid 1821–1906 FaG
- Elizabeth Hanks Heckel 1822–1892 FaG
- Mary Hanks 1824–1843 FaG
- John Lewis Hanks 1824–1831 FaG
- Lucinda Jane "Lucy" Hanks Wood 1832–1919 FaG
- William Benjamin Hanks 1834–1892 FaG
- Andrew Jackson Hanks 1835–1918 FaG
- Sarah Margaret Hanks Calhoun 1838–1875 FaG
- Rebecca Ellen "Nellie" Hanks Tyler 1843–1927 FaG
- Susan Malinda Hanks 1844–1845 FaG
- Martha Emeline "Mattie" Hanks Bridges 1848–1939 FaG
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