This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HANKS WILLIS STAGG GRAHAM STARK MILLER OLIVER JENKINS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WEB.2ACI/446 Message Board Post: My maternal great-grandfather ARTHUR ALLEN HANKS (b. Aug. 27, 1877; died Aug. 22, 1942) Arthur Allen Hanks parents were William Hanks and Francis Soileau. He married MARY STARK (b. Jan. 18, 1860; d. Jan. 08, 1931) on Oct. 17, 1895. He was 17-years younger than her. They owned a meat market in Lecompte, Louisiana. Their log home was located right in the middle of where IH 49 is today (approx. 500' south of Highway 112) near Lecompte. The Children of Arthur Allen Hanks and Mary Stark were: my grandmother, Lillie Gertrude Hanks (b. Dec. 29, 1897; d. July 02, 1973), Ivy "Buddy" Lee Hanks (b. Nov. 18, 1898; d. Dec. 10, 1982), William Hanks, b. Nov. 18, 1898; d. Dec. 16, 1898), Callie Hanks (b. June 18, 1901) and Mary Cordelia "Delia" Hanks (b. Apr. 04, 1902; d. Aug. 20, 1946). My grandmother told me that each day, after school, her mother would say "little lady, get a potato and work n the field." My Uncle Howard Willis, told me that his grandmother Mary Stark, reminded him of Grandma Walton on "The Waltons" TV show. Arthur Allen Hanks later married Gertrude Jenkins (1900-1973) and moved near Cushing/Quay, Oklahoma. Gertrude Jenkins first husband was a Laughful Miller; they had four children. Arthur Allen Hanks died in Cushing, Oklahoma and is buried near Yale, Oklahoma in an unmarked-grave. Gertrude died in Tulsa and is buried near Cheneyville, Louisiana. Arthur Allen Hanks and Gertrude Jenkins also had four children: Wilma Hanks (b. 1928), Mary Hanks (b. 1930), Donna Hanks (b. 1938) and Edwin Hanks (b. 1941). Randy Willis www.randywillis.org randywillis@ev1.net