Fielding Hanks^[1]

Abt 1783 - 1861  (78 years)

• Name	Fielding Hanks
  Birth	Abt 1783	Prince William County,,,VA
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Aug 1861	Campton,,,Morgan Co.,KY
  Burial	Campton,,,Wolfe Co.,KY
  Person ID	I2417	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Abraham Hanks, Sr.,   b. Abt 1744, Richmond Co. VA,,, d. 1793, Carroll Co.,,,VA (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Sarah Harper,   b. 1750   d. 1792 (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	Boonesborough,,,KY ?
  Family ID	F746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia Harper,   b. Fort Of Boonesborough,,,,KY d. 12 Oct 1861, Campton,,,Wolfe Co.,KY
  Children	1. Lydia Hanks   2. Jordon Hanks,   b. 1806   d. 1830, Wolfe Co.,,,,KY (Age 24 years)   3. William Hanks,   b. 1807, Montgomery Co.,,,,KY d. 1870, Powell Co.,,,,KY (Age 63 years)   4. Lucinda (Lucy) Hanks,   b. 1808   d. 1894, Texas,,, (Age 86 years)   5. Annie Hanks,   b. 1810, Montgomery Co.,,,,KY d. 24 Dec 1904, Wolfe Co.,,,,KY (Age 94 years)   6. Cuthbert Million (Cud) Hanks, Sr.,   b. 08 Sep 1814, Campton,,,Wolfe Co.,KY d. 24 Apr 1892, Campton,,,Wolfe Co.,KY (Age 77 years)   7. Andrew Jackson Hanks,   b. 1816   d. Aft 1890, Lynn Co.,,,MO (Age 75 years)   8. George S. Hanks,   b. 1817, Kentucky,,, d. 1857 (Age 40 years)   9. Nancy Hanks,   b. 1818, Morgan Co.,,,,KY d. Yes, date unknown   10. Louisa Hanks,   b. 1822   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2003

  
  

• Notes

  FROM "THE HANKS FAMILY" Written by Scott E. Sallee Fielden Hanks was born in 1783 in Campbell Co., Va., to Abraham and Sarah (Harper) Hanks. As a child, it is likely that Fielden lived with relatives, as he was orphaned at an early age. About 1804, Fielden Hanks came to Kentucky and married Lydia Harper, a full-blood Choctaw Indian whose parents, John and Mary Ann Harper ,had come to Kentucky from Mississippi. (Lydia Harper's sister Sibby married Fielden's brother, George Hanks) Fielden and Lydia Hanks settled on Slate Creek in Montgomery Co., Ky., where Fielden was first listed as a taxpayer in 1806. At that time, he owned only a horse, but quickly acquired more property. Records from George Hanks' estate sale on Jan. 3, 1814, show that Fielden Hanks purchased a sorrel horse. On Sept. 20, 1814, Fielden Hanks enlisted in the Kentucky Militia, and was assigned as a corporal in Capt. Micajuh McClenny's Company, of Major Peter Dudley's Mounted Battalion. Fielden served two months in this capacity, receiving his discharge on Nov. 14, 1814, at Detroit, Michigan. In 1818, Fielden Hanks moved from Montgomery Co. to Camp Town (present-day Campton), where he built the first permanent dwelling in what had been a miners' camp for men seeking the legendary Swift Silver Mine in the nearby Red River Gorge. In 1824, he waselected one of the first magistrates of newly formed Morgan Co., Ky. According to family tradition, Fielden was a great hand for hunting in the mountains, and Fielden, along with his cousin, James Hanks, were known as mighty hunters." Perhaps the most civic-minded of Fielden Hanks' children was his son, Cuthbert MiIlion Hanks, or "Cud," as he was called. Cud Hanks became one of the largest land owners around Campton, and was so instrumental in organizing Wolfe County, that he became known as "The Father of Wolfe County." He donated the land for the jail and courthouse, and served as the first sheriff. He served in the Kentucky legislature during the last year of the Civil War, representing the district which comprised the counties of Wolfe. Morgan,and Breathitt, and for twenty years thereafter, served as the Wolfe Co. jailer. Fielden Hanks died on August 13, 1861, and his wife Lydia (Harper) Hanks died on Oct. 12, 1861. Both are buried in the Old City Cemetery (formerly known as the Old Methodist Burying Ground) at Campton, Ky.

  
  

• Sources

  [S26] Adin Baber, Adin Baber Text, (1965), Page 98. (Reliability: 3).