From: Janet Johnson JanetJ@Arkansas.Net
To: MARJORIBANKS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 02:31:50 -0500
Subject: Sam Banks, Senr Bible

Felt this is worth posting for those that may not be able to find this
book in their library. Title "South Carolina Bible Records", by Dorothy
Harris Phifer.
                      SAMUEL BANKS, SENR BIBLE

[This Bible has been passed down in the Banks, then the Hamilton
families of Chester Co., SC. It is currently in the possesion of Mrs.
Leonard Reynolds of Kingstree, d/o Hugh Hamilton, s/o (Sally Banks)
Hamilton d/o Henry Moore Banks, s/o Samuel Banks, Sr. August 23, 1993]

Page 1:
Elizabeth &I Samuel Banks Married 6th November 1797
Henry M. & Mary W. Banks married 1st Nov. 1850 (second marriage)
Alex. R. & Mary B. Banks married 10th May 1856 (second marriage)
John & Esther Banks; Married 27th January 1820
John Born 22nd October 1798 - Esther born 15 July 1800
Joseph & Juliana Coleman married 5 February 1824
Archibald & Helen Robinson married 13th December 1826
Henry & Margaret Moore married 13th December 1827
Samuel & Dorcas Banks- married 15 Nov.1832
Henry M. & Rebeca Clarissa Banks married 24th January 1833
David & Elizabeth Weir married 12th January 1835
Robert & Jane Thompson married 22d October 1835
Alexander Robinson & Elizabeth Banks married 5th June 1838
William &I [page torn- Mary] Banks married 29th December 1841

Page 2                          BIRTHS

Elizabeth Robinson born 20th September 1776
John Banks 22d October 1798
Margaret Banks 9th May 1800
Helen Banks 4th May 1802
Juliana Banks 11th March 1804
Jean Banks 22d June 1806
Alexander Robinson Banks 26th June 1808
Henry Moore Banks 24th May 1810
Samuel Banks 19th May 1812
William Banks 26th April 1814

			       DEATHS
Mary Elizabeth Banks died 2d November 1816
Margaret McKeown 9th My 1823
Mary Elizabeth Brown daughter of John Banks died 14th July 1845
Henry Howard Robinson son of Arch'd H Robinson died 17th July1845
Meldrid Malvina Weir daughter of David Weir died 14th Augt 1845
Elisabeth Banks senr wife of Sammuel Banks esq died the 23 of July 1846
Wiley R Coleman son of Joseph R Coleman died 18th July 1847 at Puebla
Mexico
Alexander Banks son of Rev. A R Banks Decr 18ith 1847


Page 3                       BIRTHS

Mary Elizabeth Banks 10th May 1816
Elizabeth Banks 31st January 1818
Robert McCullough Banks 7 Arpil 1821
Samuel Banks 3 July 1822

Mary Elizabeth Banks 27 July 1823
Nancy Thompson Banks was born 10th Sept 1825
Margaret Banks born 21st November 1827
Jane Banks was born 9th May 1830
Juliana Catharine Banks born 18th July 1832
Helen Banks 23 October 1834

[along side margin]
William Banks born 20 March 1837
John Douglas Banks born 19th May 1838

John BA[page torn-NS's CHILDREN]
William Henry Banks b. 11 Mar 1841, killed near Nashville, Tenn. 1863
Hugh Osmond Banks 24 Oct 1840

                                  DEATHS
Samuel Banks 27 July 1822 son of John
Samuel Alexander Robinson died 25 January 1828 son of Archibald
Samuel Banks Robinson 11 May 1832 son of Archibald
Rebeca Jane Coleman 25th July 1833
John Ross Robinson 6th June 1834
Juliana Robinson 27th June 1834
William Banks son of John died 27th March 1837
Nancy Banks daughter of Samuel died 11th Sept. 1838

Page 4:                          DEATHS
Rebeca C Banks wife of Henry M Banks Died February 26th 1848
Henry M Banks infant child Died 21 February 1848
Elizabeth Jane Robinson Daughter of Archibald Robinson died 14th March
1848
Samuel Banks Senr died Jany 16 A. D. 1851
Ellen Robinson died Dec 12th 1875
Juliana Coleman died DEc 21st 1871
Revd William Banks died Mar. 17th 1875
Jane Thompson died 20th Nov. 1877
Samuel Banks, son of Henry Banks, died in Richmond, Va. 20th April 1878,
in Hospital
Henry Howard Banks, son of Revd A. R. Banks, died in Ashville, N. C.
Aug. 6th 1878
Robt. Alex. Banks (son of Henry M. Banks) died Dec 16th 1883 at Tulip,
ARk.


Page 5:                        MARRIAGES
Henry M. Banks and Mary White married Nov 1 1849
Saml M. Banks & Julia B. Chewning were married Jan. 6th 1864 In Amherst
Co., Va.
Hattie Banks married to Rev. Jos. B. Mack Dec. 1864
Henry Howard Banks (son of Alex. R. ) & Antoinette Hawley were married
in 
Ashville, N. C. on 24th Oct. 1865
Robert A. Banks and Ruth Earline(?) Smith married Oct. 14 1870 in Dallas
Co., Ark.
Katey Grier Banks Borne 28 of Aug'st 1871
Henry Hargrove Banks Borne 1 of Aug'st 1874

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John Banks left So. Ca. to move to Tipton Co West Tenn. A. D. 1848
Henry Moore Left So. Ca. to move to Tipton Co West Tenn. A. D. 1849

Revd A. R. BANKS' CHILDREN - born..
Alexander Robinson Apr 3d 1857
Edmond Samuel
Eliza Ann
Mary Burdite
William Charles
Fitzhugh   June 24th
Caroline Chester  6th Feb.

Page 7: [The next three pages are from another old Bible and were placed
in the Samuel Banks Bible years ago. The pages were larger than those of
the Bible they are now in, and they are badly frayed around all edges.]


					DEATHS
William Banks died 21st Feb 1848
Rebecca C. Banks died 26th Feb. 1848
Samuel Banks senr died Jany 16th 1851
Margaret Ann Banks died 27th Oct. A. D. 1855
Willie H. Banks was killed 4th March 1874 by a mule
Samuel M. Banks died 20 Apr 1878
Robt. Alex Banks Son of H. M. Banks died Dec. 16th 1883 at Tulip, Ark.
Hugh White Banks died Jan. 10th 1888
Mary Banks died Mar 5th 1888
H. M. Banks in the 81st year of his age [Obit glued in:] Died at the
residence of Mr.
John H. Hamilton, July 31 1890, Mr. Henry M. Banks, in the 81st year of
his age. Rev. J. L. McLin conducted funeral services on the following
day at Pleasant Grove Church of which the deceased was a ruling elder
for more than 30 years. His life was that of an humble Christian and a
good citizen.

Page 8:                            BIRTHS
Rebecca C. Hawse Banks daughter of Saml & Julia Banks born Aug. 15th
1866 in Dallas Co., Ark.
Belle Bruce Banks daughter of Saml M. & Julia B. Banks born July 15th
1871 in Ashville, N. C.
Alfred Mandeville Son of Sam & Julia R. Banks was born Aug. 10th 1874
William Henderson Hamilton Son of J. H. & S. E. Hamilton was born Oct.
18th 1879
John Lyle Hamilton Son of J. H. & S. E. Hamilton was born June 10th 1881
Jas. Rudolph Hamilton Son of J. H. & S. E. Hamilton was born 10th Sept.
1882
Robert Albert Son of J. H. & S. E. Hamilton   1866
Mary Banks dau [page torn. Next line illegible.]

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Children of John H. & Sallie E. Hamilton
Mary Banks Hamilton was born February th 14 1888 Tuesday
Children of Will and Blanche Hamilton
Louise Davis Hamilton was born April 30th 1906 at Lafayette, La.

Page 10: [The following pages are from the SAMUEL BANKS Bible. These
pages were scattered throughout the Bible wherever blank pages were
available -- on the back of illustrations, at the end of books, etc.
They are arranged in order of the children in Samuel's family with the
exception of this page, which recorded marriages.]

James Brown & Mary Elizabeth Banks married 10th December 1844
William White & Nancy T. Banks married 29th February 1846
Frederick L. Fight & Margaret R. Banks was married the 14th of October
in 8147
[sic......surely 1847!]

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HENRY & MARGARET MOORE'S CHILDREN
Elisabeth Moore -born 18th November 1828
Henry Maxine Moore born 24 April 1832
John Alexander Moore born 14 September 1824
Juliana Caroline Moore 14th April 1837
Samuel Douglass Moore 8th November 1839
Margaret Moore born 14th February 1843
Frances C... Moore born 16th May 1846

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ARCHIBALD ROBINSON'S CHILDREN
Samuel Alexander Robinson born 27th October 1827
John Ross Robinson born 25 January 1829
Samuel Banks Robinson was born 9th April 1831
Juliana Robinson - born 17th September 1833
Elisabeth Jane Robinson born 10th June 1835
William Banks Robinson born 4th February 1838
Sarah Paul Robinson born 16th December 1840
Henry Howard Robinson born 3d May 1844

Page 13:                   FAMILY RECORD
Alexander Robinson Banks left his Fathers house 22d April 1836 to go as
a missionary to Arkansas

                           MARRIAGES
The second time 2d Oct. 1837
The third time 21st August 1841
A. R. Banks was Licensed to preach the Gospel, by the Bethel Presbytry
at the Bethel Church on the 8th day of April 1835 Was ordained as an
Evangelist by the same Presbytery at six mile Creek Church on the 7th of
April 1836

JOSEPH R COLEMAN'S CHILDREN
Wiley Ragsdale Coleman, born 3 January 1825
Sarah Elizabeth Coleman - 8 March 1827
Samuel Wyate Coleman - 9 October 1829
Rebeca Jane Coleman - 29th June 1832
Cicilia Ellena Coleman - 1st June 1834
Henry Allen Coleman 16th March 1837
Mary Ellen Coleman 24th October ......
Walter Francis Marion Coleman the 21 of September 1846

Henry Howard Banks, son of A. R. Banks was licensed to preach the gospel
by the Owichita Presbytery at Mt. Holly Ark. on the 6th April 1861.--was
ordained as an Evangelist to the Confederate Army by the Bethel
Presbytery April 1864
was installed Pastor of Asheville Church, N.C., August 1867
was installed Pastor of Murfreesboro Church Tenn. July 1872

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ROBERT & JANE THOMPSON'S CHILDREN
Mary Catharine Thompson born 9th August 1836 Died
William Banks Thompson, born 28th June 1838, Married to Sarah E. Moon
Decr. 18, 1866
Samuel Robinson Thompson, born 10th December 1839, Died in Hospital
Lynchburg, VA. Sept. 12, 1863
John Alexander Thompson born 22d April 1842, Married Nov. 7th 1865 to M.
E. Knox
Sarah Jane Thompson born the 19th of July 1846, Died 185_

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ALEXANDER R & ELIZABETH BANKS Children
Henry Howard Banks born 16th May 1839 - Married 23th Oct. 1865, died 6th
Aug. 1878 at Ashville, N.C.
Alexander Banks born 19th August 1842. Died Dec. 18th 1847

Page 16: HENRY M BANKS & REBECA C BANKS' Children
Robert Alexander Banks -- born 7th November 1833
Samuel Mandevill Banks - born 1st January 1837

HENRY M BANKS & MARY W BANKS' Children
Elizabeth Sarah Banks born Jan, Jan. 29th 1851
Margaret Ann Banks born Aug. 6th 1853 - Died 27th Oct. 1855
Hugh White Banks born Sept. 8th 1856
William Henry Banks born Nov. 16th 1857
John Joseph Banks born Nov 2d 1859

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SAMUEL & DORCAS BANKS' Children
Nancy Rebecca Banks was born 23rd Oct. 1835
Elizabeth Banks born 30th Sept. 1837
Sarah Caroline Banks was born 13th February 1840
John William Banks born 17th Sept. 1842
Ephream Banks born 17th January 1845
Samuel Banks born 10th March 1847
Hampton Banks born 24th January 1850

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William Banks was licenced (sic) to preach the Gospel at Cane-Creek
Church Union District, S. C. by the Bethel Presbytery on Saturday 4th
April 1840
William Banks was ordained at Catholic Church Chester District 25th
February 1841

WILLIAM & MARY E. BANKS Children
Hariet Banks born 30th July 1845, Married to Rev. J. B. Mack Tenn. Dec.
1864
Alexander Banks born 30th May 1847, Married to Sarah A. McMullen July
6th 1875. Pleasant Ridge, Greene Co. Ala.

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DAVID & ELIZABETH WEIR'S Children
Mary Jane Weir was born 24th Nov. 1835
Sarah Caroline Weir born 25 October 1837
Nancy Elender Weir born 7th May 1839
Elizabeth Weir born 11th February 1841
William James Lafayette Weir born 12th December 1842
Meldrid Mulvina Weir born 5th January 1845
David Weir born 5 Sept- 1846
Walter Wear (sic) was Born the 16 of March 1849

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FREDERICK L & MARGRET R FIGHTS children
Mary Eliseabeth was born Decr. 1847