Wesley Hanks1

b. 31 December 1800
Wesley Hanks|b. 31 Dec 1800|p1685.htm|John Hanks|b. 1770\nd. 29 Jun 1839|p99.htm|Jane Douglas Armstrong|b. bt 1768 - 1769\nd. 22 Nov 1851|p100.htm|Elijah Hanks|b. 17 Dec 1740|p1692.htm|Ann Craft|d. 1798|p1693.htm|John Armstrong|b. b 1731\nd. 1810|p1867.htm|Anne (—?—) (Armstrong)|b. c 1739\nd. 6 Feb 1823|p1868.htm|

Granduncle of Louise Underwood.
2nd great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Wesley Hanks was born on 31 December 1800.1 He was the son of John Hanks and Jane Douglas Armstrong.1
     
     Wesley Hanks was sheriff of Chatham County, North Carolina.2 He never married.

Additional Data
Wesley Hanks was an heir and the executor of his father John Hanks' will dated 16 June 1838 in Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina.3 Click to view image

Wesley Hanks appeared on the 1840 U.S. Census in Chatham County, North Carolina. In his household were one male 30-39; one female 5-9; one female 20-29; one female 60-69; three free colored persons; two male slaves; one female slave.4Click to view image

Wesley Hanks appeared on the 1 June 1850 Federal Census of Chatham County, North Carolina, enumerated 14 August 1850. His brother Martin was listed as living with him.5 Click to view image

Wesley appeared on the 1 June 1860 Federal Census of Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina, enumerated 17 June 1860.6 Click to view image

Wesley appeared on the 1 June 1870 Federal Census of Graves, Chatham County, North Carolina, enumerated 21 July 1870. His brother Martin was listed as living with him.7 Click to view image

Citations

  1. [S193] Family data, John Hanks Bible Dictionary, Dictionary of the Holy Bible Containing, An Historical Account of the Persons: A Geographical and Historical Account of the Places: A Literal, Critical, and Systematical Description of Other Objects, whether Natural, Artificial, Civil, Religious, or Military: and The Explication of the Appellative Terms, Mentioned in the Writings of the Old and New Testament. The Whole Comprising Whatever Important is Known Concerning the Antiquities of the Hebrew Nation and Church of God; Forming A Sacred Commentary; A Body of Scripture History, Chronology, and Divinity; and Serving in a Great Measure as a Concordance to the Bible; In Which are Added for the First Time, Notes, Historical, Literary, and Theological Illustrated with Elegant Maps and Plates (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Ecclesiastical and Literary Press of Zadok Cramer, 1807); original owned in 2003 by Virginia M. McGee (Houston, Texas).
  2. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families; a genealogical, biographical, and historical study of the ancestry of the mother of Abraham Lincoln (Kansas, Illinois: Adin Baber, 1960), 291.
  3. [S277] John Hanks will (1838), Chatham County Will Book: C: 99-100, County Clerk's Office, Pittsboro, North Carolina.
  4. [S200] Wesley Hanks household, 1840 U.S. Census, Chatham County, North Carolina, page 141; National Archives micropublication M704, roll 357.
  5. [S59] Wesley Hanks household, 1850 U.S. Census, Chatham County, North Carolina, population schedule, Lower Regiment, page 453B, dwelling 5, family 5; National Archives micropublication M432, roll 624.
  6. [S58] Wesly Hanks household, 1860 U.S. Census, Chatham County, North Carolina, population schedule, Eastern Division, Pittsboro post office, page 10B, dwelling 169, family 169; National Archives micropublication M653, roll 892.
  7. [S198] Wesley Hanks household, 1870 U.S. Census, Chatham County, North Carolina, population schedule, Centre township, Graves Post Office, page 9/52, 10, dwelling 80, family 80; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1129.