Lamar-Monroe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bankston, Clayton November 10, 1956
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clipping from an unknown newspaper, 12 November 1956
CLAYTON BANKSTON BURIED MONDAY
     Funeral services for Clayton Bankston, 53, were held Monday morning at 
Fredonia Congregational Church in Redbone, of which he was a member.  Burial 
was in Barnesville.
     The Rev. Sam D. Nelson, new pastor of Fredonia, and the Rev. Howard 
Ethington, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Barnesville, officiated.
     Mr. Bankson died late Saturday afternoon at the residence on Holmes 
Street after suffering a heart attack some days earlier.  He had been a 
patient at Griffin-Spalding Hospital, but had returned home greatly improved 
when death came suddenly.
     An employee of William Carter Company, Mr. Bankston was a member of one 
of this sections pioneer families.  He was well-known throughout the county 
and had countless friends who mourn his passing.
     Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Butler; two children, 
Dee and Jimmy; five sisters, Mrs. Clara B. Sykes, Miss Alta Bankston, Mrs. 
Wilburn Sappington, all of Barnesville; Mrs. Julian Fleming, Birmingham, Ala., 
and Mrs. Glenn Cooper, Cohutta, Ga.; five brothers, Frank, Everett, Walton, 
John and Jack Bankston, all of Barnesville.
     Haisten Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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