James HANKS

Name:

James HANKS¹

Gender:

Male

Father:

Richard HANKS

Mother:

Mary HINDS

Facts and Events

Birth:

about 1759, Dinwiddie County, VA.

Military Service:

Lincoln County, NC.American revolution.

Death:

13 APR 1839, Wilkes County, NC.

Notes

Born in Dinwiddie Co, VA and migrated to NC with his father's family. He served in several campaigns during the American revolution and married his wife Mary Starrett in Lincoln Co, NC while still in the Army. They made their first home in Lincoln Co, NC where their first five children were born. They lived near Trap Hill NC on a farm which os now part of the Stone Mountain State Park and it is an unproven family tradition that they were buried in the old Lyons family cemetery near Trap Hill. Census records, private records and known family kinships identify their children as listed.

Marriages/Children

Mary STARRETT

Marriage:

26 AUG 1779, Lincoln County, NC.

Children:

Rebecca HANKS
William HANKS
Richard HANKS
Mary HANKS
Catherine HANKS
Elizabeth HANKS
David HANKS
d: after 1870
d: after 1870

d: 8 JUN 1898
b: 11 OCT 1781
b: 1783
b: about 1785
b: about 1787
b:
b: about 1795
b: 18 DEC 1798

Sources

1. The Hanks Family of North Carolina & Virginia David Andrew Sturgill. 1989, rev 1994,1998. pg 11.

                                            William HANKS
                          William HANKS, II|
                         |                 |Sarah BYRD
            Richard HANKS|
           |             |               John MILLS
           |             |Hester C MILLS|
           |                            |Hester WHITE
James HANKS|
           |           James HINDS
           |Mary HINDS|
                      |Patience