Re: Henry and Martha Bankston of GA and AR
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In reply to:
Re: Henry and Martha Bankston of GA and AR
Joy Dupy 10/08/02
Joy,
It was interesting reading about Henry and Martha on your
website.Children frequently gave incorrect info about
their parents....ages, birthplaces, etc...for census and
other records.Since Atlanta wasn't founded until the
mid-1840s, Henry must have been born somewhere else and
you might check out Wilkes County and Coweta County in
Georgia.These are the counties that I know Bankstons from
the line of the original Swedish settler, Andres Bengstrom,
who arrived in Philadelphia in the eighteenth century lived
in the state of Georgia.None of the names the couple gave
their children were traditional in the Bankston line that
I know about but this still doesn't rule out a possible
connection.