Hi: Here are several mentions of the surname Autry/Autrey in the Bankston family including a Bankston/Autrey marriage. Use your Find feature to find "Aut" in what I am pasting below. I am also pasting the bio of John Bankston because it mentions that he was a minister and founder of Friendship Primitive Baptist Church. Our Rev. John Autry was a Baptist minister. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ==================================== Found at: http://members.aol.com/mcemmert/rambo14.txt See Genealogy of the Bankston Family by Edna Robinson Vacher. 22612. PRISCILLA BANKSTON was born in NC, and may have married LAMBETH HOPKINS. A Priscilla Hopkins, Jacob Bankston, and JACOB AUTREY applied for letters of administration of Hopkins estate 24 Jan 1799 in Jackson Co., GA.(617) 22613. JOHN BANKSTON was born in 1760 in Orange County, North Carolina.(231) He married MARY LANIER in 1782. She was born 23 Jun 1764 in Pitt Co., North Carolina, the daughter of the Revolutionary soldier James Lanier and his wife, Mary (Cooke) Lanier (#37 on p.334 in Lanier genealogy by Ingersoll).-- --ask ElaRuth John Bankston was listed on the tax digest of Clarke County, GA in 1804 as the administrator of Peter Bankston's estate.(618) In 1801 he may have been the John Bankston from Jackson Co., GA who put up two slaves, four horses, and four beds to secure a note made out to James Moore of Greene County. The note was due 25 Dec 1801, but not recorded until June 1809. A John Bankston had a draw in the 1805 land lottery in Clarke Co., GA.(353)-- They lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina at the time of the 1820 Census, before moving to Gwinnett Co., Georgia where John farmed. John Bankston was a Primitive Baptist minister, and a founder of the Friendship Primitive Baptist Church. Rev. Bankston died 23 Feb 1838, and was buried in the Sampson Lanier Cemetery, Gwinnett Co., Georgia. Mary (Lanier) Bankston died at the home of her son Rev. Joseph Bankston on 5 Apr 1857 in Coosa Co., Alabama. =========================== 22617. ANDREW BANKSTON was born in 1754 in Orange Co., North Carolina. He is believed to be the eldest son of Peter Bankson, and a grandson of Capt. Lawrence Bankson. He was named as a son of Peter in the 1859 deposition by Isaac Bankston.(599) However, Andrew was not named in Peter's will of 1804. Andrew Bankston moved to Wilkes Co., GA in 1777 and served as a private in the Georgia Militia.(229) He described his war service when he filed for a pension in 1834 at the age of 80, and a letter in his pension file reads as follows:(230) "He volunteered in 1779 and served three months in CAPT.AUTRY'S CO., Col. Elijah Clarke's Georgia Regt., went in pursuit of the Cherokee Indians and had a severe battle betweixt the Appalacha and the Ocona. He was appointed Captain by Col. Clarke and raised a volunteer company that engaged in several scouting expeditions. In 1780, they marched under Col. Williamson to the siege of Augusta and served three months; shortly after his return home was ordered out with this company in pursuit of Indians, was in several skirmishes, and served three months. He marched with his company to Augusta and stationed there three months; turned out again with his company and served three months guarding the frontiers." Andrew Bankston's pension application stated that he lived in Wilkes Co., GA until 1812, but there is no record of him in Georgia. His name is not listed on any records as paying taxes, or receiving any headrights or bounty lands in Georgia for his military service in the Revolutionary War. He is, however, listed on the 1800 and 1810 Census returns for Montgomery Co., NC where the family had lived before moving to GA. Andrew Bankston recorded land entries in Montgomery Co., NC on 25 Jun 1785 for 50 acres bordering his own land, on the path from his house to James Gray's; 15 Aug 1785 for 150 acres on N side of Long Creek; on 28 Aug 1794 for 200 acres on waters of Long Creek and Watery Branch and for 200 acres on waters of Long Creek and Round Top Branch.(663), pp. 30, 31, 76) He married, but the name of his first wife is not known. Their children may have included a Richard Bankston (see #226X1 and #226XX below), as well as their two known sons, James and Daniel:(34) ================================ 22622. ELIJAH BANKSTON was born 22 Feb 1765 in Orange Co., NC. It was said that he went "out against the British" as a lad of 16, but he may have been just over 14. Records show that he enlisted in 1779 in the Georgia Volunteers, commanded by Col. Elijah Clarke.(230) His discharge was signed by Capt. Micajah Williamson and Wm. E. Bankston, Clerk of the Superior Court, Butts Co., GA.(34) Elijah and ELIZABETH MORRIS were married on 1 Feb 1787. She may have been a member of the Morris family who lived in Montgomery Co. NC at the same time as the Bankstons. Elijah Bankston received bounty land grants of 287 1/2 acres in Wilkes Co., GA in 1785.(224) However, he moved about frequently, so the family was found in Spartanburg, SC in 1790, then in Walton Co., GA in 1820, in DeKalb Co. by 1830, and in Butts Co., GA by 1840. Elijah was the first justice of the peace of Evan's District, DeKalb County, GA.(356) One of his grandsons was the Hon. James Jackson of Atlanta. Elijah died 22 Feb 1849 in Butts Co., GA. He and Elizabeth had four known children:(357) 226221. WILLIAM BANKSTON, b. 1789, d. 1875, m. Temperance AUTREY 226222. ALFRED BANKSTON, b. 1805, d. maybe in 1850, m. Mary Blesset 226223. Female BANKSTON 226224. HENRY BANKSTON, b. 20 Jan 1812, m. Elizabeth Jane Connally ============================== 22631. THOMAS BANKSTON was born about 1760 in North Carolina. He served in CAPT.AUTRY'S Co. in 1778, guarding the frontier in Wilkes Co., GA for 18 months, and fought several skirmishes with the Indians.(230) He was 75 years old when he applied for a pension on 7 Apr 1835. His application stated that his father "David" Bankston moved from North Carolina to Wilkes Co. about 1780. His father was also correctly called Daniel in the same document, and named as the father of Abner, Thomas, and "John" Bankston. The pension was denied, but no reason was given. The earliest record of Thomas Bankston in Georgia is 20 Sep 1783 when he was appraiser of Simon Autry in Wilkes County.(360) A deposition of his son, S. R. Bankston, in 1846 names SIMON AUTRY as his grandfather, so Thomas's wife must have been a Miss AUTRY.(631),, letter of 31 Oct 1999) He was listed on the tax list of 1789 for Greene Co., GA which had been formed from part of Wilkes Co. in 1786.(359) In 1792-94, he owned 300 acres of land in Wilkes Co. and in Warren Co. which was formed in part from Wilkes in 1793. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in Jackson Co. on 15 Mar 1798, and 10 Aug 1802.(618) Thomas Sr. and his wife may have moved to Clarke Co., Mississippi between 1835 and 1840 to be with their younger son. A couple were listed on the Census, both between age 70-80. Thomas and his wife were most likely the parents of Spencer R. Bankston, who lived in neighboring Jasper Co., MS, thought by Vacher(34) to be the son of Daniel and Rachel Bankston. Daniel's son Spencer and his wife Eunice lived some distance away in Hinds Co., MS.(610) Probable children of Thomas: 226313. MARY (Polly) BANKSTON, b. ca 1790, m. James Hambrick 226311. SPENCER RUNNEL BANKSTON, b. 5 Oct 1800, m. Sarah Laird 226312. THOMAS H. BANKSTON, b. 1800-1810