Calhoun-Cherokee County AlArchives Obituaries.....Hanks, Luke A. 1893
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Piedmont Inquirer, June 24, 1893
Death of L.A. Hanks
	That was a sudden call that came on Wednesday night to Luke A. Hanks 
and summoned to his final account a middle aged, healthy, and vigorous man who 
had been active in business pursuits and social offices up to almost the last 
hour.
	On Wednesday, Mr. Hanks appeared in his usual haunts in perfect 
health.  During the morning he was engaged in his ordinary vocations.  In the 
afternoon, he assisted in the funeral services of a deceased neighbor.  Later 
he was with the happy family circle under his own rooftree.  At midnight he was 
dead.
	Mr. Hanks was born in Anderson District, S.C., on the 6th of March 
1834; but the greater part of his life was spent in this community.  He was 
twice married here.  Twice he followed the beloved of his heart to the grave 
here.  Here his children were born.  Here he lived and labored among men for 
something like half a century.
	He was an honest man, a good citizen, a kind neighbor, a faithful 
friend.  There was no pretence in his life, no affectation, no assumption.  He 
was a plain, unpretending, modest man; content to do his duty in the in the 
[sic] humble station in which his lot was cast.
	Perhaps the formula known as the Golden Rule was never in his mind, but 
its spirit was in his heart, and few have come nearer than he came to living in 
accordance with it.
	Death came to him suddenly.  He has gone out from among men, and he 
place that knew him once will know him no more forever.  But he will not soon 
be forgotten, this kindly, genial, good man, who always seemed to love others 
better than himself and to live for others rather than for himself.


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