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From: Lee Savage <>
Subject: Re: HANKS, Susannah NC>TN>MO (Repeat)
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 23:10:37 -0600

Ted Stout wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> It has been a while since I sent this, so I will try again.
>
> My great-great grandfather John Tankersley of NC, TN and Stoddard Co. MO
> was a son of Charles Tankersley and Susannah Hanks of Lincoln Co. NC.
>
> What is the ancestry of Susannah Hanks? The following information is about
> all I have on my Hanks connection:
>
> The book, "Nancy Hanks, of undistinguished families, A Genealogical,
> Biographical and Historical Study of the Ancestry of The Mother of Abraham
> Lincoln" , 1960, privately published by Adin Baker says:
>
> on page 140
>
> "The Ivy family, of whom the famous Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of Chicago is one,
> are descendants in one line of Susan Hanks, who was born 1769, the daughter
> of William Hanks, and she married Charles Tankersley. He was born in 1765
> the son of William and Margaret Nelson Tankersley. The Tankersleys seem to
> have been about Charlotte County, Virginia and it is thought that Charles
> went to
> Caswell County, North Carolina. William Hanks, who had a daughter born in
> 1769, could have had other children born later, but the Ivy family
> historians do not know anything further about William and neither does this
> researcher.
>
> and on page 339, the above information is basically repeated with
> the following addition:
>
> "The Tankersleys were in Charlotte County, Virginia, and in Lincoln County,
> North Carolina."
>
> In another book on the Hanks family, this same author said that Susan
> Hanks was a daughter of William Hanks and married Charles Tankersley
> of Amelia County Virginia. He adds that William Hanks' son John, in a
> petition stated his father was an "immigrant" from New England and
> speculated that this William was son of the William of New England and
> brother of John.
>
> In 1860 Susannah was living with her son James Tankersley in Stoddard
> County MO and the census indicated that she was born in NC and that she was
> age 80. Her son John named one of his sons Benjamin Nelson Tankersley
> which may indicate the name of Margaret Nelson's father.
>
> I found the above mentioned book in the Dallas Public Library, Main Branch.
>
> Ted Stout
> Mililani Town, Hawaii
>
Sorry that it has taken me so long in answering you, but here is a
little of what I hAVE, There are 4 William Hanks, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and
4th. William the II had 8 children, one of them was Susannah born in
Dec. of 1725.
William the 1st married Sarah, last name unknown
William the 2nd married Hester C. Mills
William the 3rd married Sophie Reams
William the 4th married the 1st time to Emily Miller
the 2nd time to Martha Fredericks

This is juat a sampling of what I have, if this is something that you
might be interested in I will send you more.
I got this from a Dale Hanks who complied this on his family.

Rose

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