yes this is true name of the place for sure Gary. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Hood" <garyhood@egyptian.net> To: <TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: [TNMAURY-L] Re: This is a very good site > Hey, Annie. I've had a lot of help from other people on this board too, > and > do appreciate it. There's a link to an alternate story of Nancy Hanks' > parents on my site, under Hanks Pictures, I think. If you haven't seen it > and can't find it let me know and I'll hunt it down. I don't think she was > illigitamate, as some claim. I don't know of any DNA research on Hanks. > Far > as I know, Abe has no living descendants and had no sblings, so it would > be > impossible to prove that way. Far as I know, unless we dig up his bones, > then it would be unlikely after all this time. > > Elvis Presley was a Hanks descendant. Tom Hanks, the actor, naturally. > Many > others. Did you know we were kin to Elvis? Worse yet, did I already tell > you? > > I think there is a resemblance to Abe in Granpaw Elijah's picture, also on > my site. Back then in Maury County, it was said that Elijah and Abe were > cousins. It was said in Ohio and other states, so I think it is true. > > While I'm at it, I don't usually post family trees, but I did post > descendants of Thomas Dodson and Elizabeth Rose, mainly because it makes > almost everybody in Maury County and elsewhere kin.. It includes the Hanks > from Granpaw Moses on down to my grandparents, and all the other lines I > have collected from y'all. (Except for one descendant of Robert Williams > and > Elizabeth Hanks who never sent me any thing back. You know who you are, > but > I forgot who you are and don't know how to reach you.) Woolverton, > Fitzgerald, Williams, Caughron, Haywood, Taylor, Walters/Waters, > ever'body. > Name it, we kin. > > And, I correct you on this because it is important. Somebody else called > it > that the other day. It is not Knob Hill Cemetery where the Maury Hanks are > buried. It is Old Knob Creek, not to be confused with the new one not far > from it, which is Knob Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, also called Knob > Creek > Cemetery, informally. Pictures of most of the stones in the old cemetery > are > also on my site. All of the Hanks who have stones are pictured. > > I'm going to post a separate message on that in case not everybody reads > this one. It's important. > > > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > SOUTHERN HERITAGE NEWS & VIEWS > http://lists.topica.com/lists/SouthernHeritage/prefs/info.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >