CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Hanks
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Hanks

  James Hanks of Hat Creek seems to have been the first of his name to purchase
land in Campbell county. In 1787 he sold, to Daniel Walker, of Charlotte, 15O
acres on the east branches of Hat creek along Mitchell's line to Hank's spring
branch. The witnesses to the deed were Thomas, Sarah and Tabitha Hanks. Abraham
Hanks bought of James and Thomas Hanks 5O acres of land on Hat creek.

  Tabitha Hanks m. Samuel Barnes in 1792; Abraham m. in 1799 Lucy Jennings.
Abraham Hanks died in Campbell and was buried in Hat creek churchyard. Among the
marriage bonds is found one from Thomas Hanks and James Brooks to Gov. Henry Lee
Oct. 23, 1792, of a marriage to be solemnized between Thos. Hanks and Nancy
Brooks, both of Campbell county, Wm. Alexander (deputy clerk of court then) the
witness, and attached to the bond a note of authority dated 22d, signed by Nancy
and Fannie Brooks. To Thomas and Nancy Hanks was born a daughter, who was named
Nancy Hanks. Based upon these records a tradition prevails in the county that
Abraham Lincoln owed his ancestry to this Campbell family on the maternal side
and that he inherited his name from, Abraham Hanks.

  But in "A Story of Lincoln's Mother," Caroline Hanks-Hitchcock traced the
family from an Englishman, Benjahim Hanks (who first settled in Plymouth county,
Mass.), whose son, William, came to Amelia county, Va., a record of which she
found in the Hall of Records at Richmond, Va. According to her account, Joseph
Hanks of this branch, married Nancy Shipley and moved to Nelson county,
Kentucky; their youngest daughter, Nancy, in 18O6, married Thomas Lincoln (also
of Virginia ancestry), in Beechland, KLy., and three years later their son,
Abraham, was born.

  Similarity of name and date has caused many genealogical errors and may have
in this instance. There is a singular coincidence in the fact that but one
member of the Hanks family came to Virginia and settled during the latter part
of the 18th century in Amelia, an adjoining county to Lunenburg, a part of which
latter county by division became Campbell, where also were the Shipleys (who
were Quakers and would naturally affiliate with the nearest Meeting, i. e.,
South river, Campbell), and that the Hanks' given names were repeated in a
Campbell family bearing the same surname about the same period, as the Hitchcock
book gives to the Amelia county settlers. Thomas Lincoln moved to Kentucky in
1782, but descendants of the branch of the Lincoln family which remained in
Virginia are living in Rockingham county and yet bear that name.


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