This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stewart, Hanks, Yoakum, Moore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UYB.2ACE/1492 Message Board Post: My name is John William Stewart Jr. I have two families with roots in Carter County. My Great Great Grandfather was George Washington Hanks. He is buried at Keller Cemetery. He was born Sept. 25, 1831 in Princeton, Gibson Co. Indiana. He married Kiziah Yoakum in Marshal Co. Mississippi August 8, 1858. He served with several Confiderate units, and is listed under Co. D. 42 Mississippi Infantry. His war records show him with Co. B, 1 reg't, Missouri Infantry. He was listed absent in 1862- and Deserted in Nov, of 1863. He was in fact a prisoner of war, captured at Vicksburg in July of 1863. His children were Ruthie Hanks who married a Joseph Ford and moved to Carter County. His son George William Hanks b. Nov. 23 1872 was a prominent Baptist minister at Lone Grove for many years. My Great Grandfather was John Peter Hanks b. Dec 23 1865. He was a Blacksmith in Milam Co. Texas. George Washington married a Mary Ramanthia Minti Lewis Moore in Milam Co. and they took a herd of cattl! e to Carter County. They raised another family there. Thier family is documented in the Carter county history published a few years ago. My second family, also documented in the same book, is the descendents of Miles Stewart. This group is strongly represented by descendents, some of which still live around Wilson Miles had 14 children, many of which are buried at the cemetery in Wilson. I would be interested in sharing information with others working on both families.