This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bankston, Shannon, Axtell Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1552 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. April 9, 1909. "The Potato King".--William Bankston of Tabor, the Potato King of south west Iowa was down Monday, delivering a load of choice potatoes to Shannon & Axtell, they having purchased several hundred bushels of him. Mr. Bankston is one of two colored men who reside in Tabor, and is a man of intelligence and of moral worth and is withal self made and self educated, coming to Tabor many years ago and going to work at common labor, has by frugality and habits of industry made and saved for himself a fortune of several thousand dollars and today owns a fine farm and town property in Tabor. For a great many years Bankston has raised large crops of potatoes and is an expert in this kind of farming.