This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: hanks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZNB.2ACI/626.629 Message Board Post: i have just started researching a line of Hanks that came through Illinois, into Kansas, and finally into Missouri.....i had read your message earlier, and just now came across a site: www.braddye.com/family if you go there and ask for Hanks, then scroll down to Austin Hanks, it has a very good story about your gr-gr-father's murder in 1887....also some info on his brother too.