This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Soileau, Hanks, Willis, Graham, Lawson, Stark, Jenkins, Stagg, Strother Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WEB.2ACI/449 Message Board Post: My Great-great grandmother, Francis Cordelia Soileau Hanks (b. March 18, 1851; d. June 26, 1948) first married William "Billy" Hanks on Nov. 8, 1873 in Opelousas, Louisiana. Her second husband was Rufus A. "Ike" Stark (d. Feb. 13, 1936). She is buried at Elizabeth Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery, near Branch, Louisiana next to her second husband, Rufus A. "Ike" Stark. Francis Cordelia Soileau Hanks and William "Billy" Hanks had the following children: Lucy Hanks (b. 1881; d. ca. 1899 - never married), Mary Elizabeth Hanks (b. June 4, 1884; d. Dec. 8, 1957 - married William Nathan Huckaby), Benton Horace Hanks (b. Aug. 25, 1887; Sept. 14, 1929 - married Edna "Charlie" Oliver), Arthur Allen Hanks (my great-grandfather, (b. Aug. 27, 1877; d. Aug. 22, 1942, first married Mary Stark and then Gertrude Jenkins), Alice Dore Hanks (b. Feb. 17, 1875; d. Mar. 28, 1948 - married Robert Carter) and Caroline Hanks (b. Feb. 16, 1879; d. Feb. 27, 1950 - married William Richard). Randy Willis www.randywillis.org randywillis@ev1.net