This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Banks Wakeman Bradley Cox Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/3997.3 Message Board Post: Where did you purchase this book "History and Genealogy of Old Families of Fairfield?" Please, tell me if there is a family tree in your book for Gershom Banks, Hyatt Banks or Elizabeth Wakeman of Fairfield, CT, the grandfather, father & mother of my Henry Banks born 1811 according to "Daughters of the American Revolution "D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol I, p 199." According to Henry Banks' obituary in the newspaper "The Constitution", Atlanta, GA Tuesday, September 19, 1893, Page 5, Henry Banks..."was born in...Connecticut on the 1st of March, 1811. When he (Henry Banks) was about fourteen years of age (around 1825), the family moved to Georgia and settled in the town of Madison. They afterwards moved to McDonough, GA., and from there to Griffin. Mr. Banks moved to Atlanta on the 1st of January, 1867." About 1842, he married Mary Margaret Cox who was born 1825 in Orgelthorpe County, GA, the sister of John W. Cox born 1835. Sincerely, Florence Carrie Brown