JOHN HANKINS FAMILY FROM THE OMEGA IL. SESQUICENTENNIAL BOOK 1823-1973
Thomas Hankins, at the age of sixteen, enlisted in the 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was with the Army of the West, first under General Grant and then under General Sherman. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Shiloh and many other battles, engagements and skirmishes.
When General Sherman started his march to the sea, through Georgia and the Carolinas, the 97th Infantry was detached from the main army and they, too, were stated to Mexico. They were loaded on an old sailing ship and started across the Gulf. On the way across the Gulf. On the way across, the ship ran into a tropical hurricane and when the storm was over the ship was a wreck wit the sails and mast blown away and had to be towed back to New Orleans.
When the war was over and Thomas Hankins was discharged from the army he came to Marion County to visit his sister who had married Roland Mattingly and was living in Iuka Township. While there he met and married Lizzie Hill, the daughter of a widow who had brought her family up from Kentucky after her husband was killed in a mountain feud. After farming and logging with oxen at Featherlys mill for a few years he bought a team of mules from Alf Finn and with his wife and twin boys, went to Kansas in a covered wagon. He worked his team on the grading gang when they were building the Union Pacific Railroad, hauled freight from the railhead west to the towns that the R.R. had not yet reached, and was in Dodge City and Abilene when Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Wid Bill Hickok were the law.
Those were turbulent times, with the cowboys driving their cattle up from Texas and holding them on the prairies until they could load them on the railroad while the James Brothers, the Younger Brothers, and other desperados, gunmen, and gamblers were at large.
When part of the Indian Teritory was opened for settlement, Thomas Hankins joined the land rush and staked out a claim built a house and moved his family in.
That fall, with some companions, he went down in the Territory to hunt buffalo for their winter meat, Thomas had just killed a buffalo when the Cavalry came and warned them that the Indians were threatening to go on the warpath.
On the 9th of June 1879 a tornado destroyed their home killing his wife and twin boys. After this tragedy and having difficulties with some of the rougher elements of the population he returned to Marion County.
In 1881 Thomas Hankins was married to Elizabeth Fulfer, and they moved to a farm north of Oskaloosa, in Clay County. After one year of of farming, which was a complete crop failure, they moved to Moultrie County, in the vicinity of Arthur. There he farmed until 1895 when he moved to the village of Cadwell where for the next 16 years he ran at various times a general store, a restaurant and the post office.
In 1911 the wanderlust hit again and he moved back to Marion County, this time to Omega Township, where he bought a farm in the Lostfork Creek bottoms which is now part of the Omega Lake ( Stephen A. Forbes State Park.) There he lived until July 1,1926 when he died at the age of 80 years old. His wife Elizabeth (Fulfer) Hankins Passed away March 22,1937 age 78. Their oldest son William Ross Hankins followed them in death May 1-1957at the age of 67. The oldest son Freddie Earl Hankins was a W.W. I Veteran and lived in Omega until his death on Feb 9th 1985.
Freddie was a well loved man in the community he was honored as Mayor of Omega with an award given to him at the Annual Ice Cream Supper.
This was written by Freddie all except the last paragraph it was added by his nephew Thomas J. Hankins son of William Ross Hankins.
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Kinmundy Express
Death Notice
July 8, 1926:
- Thomas B. HANKINS died at his home in Omega twp. on July 1 after several weeks illness of apoplexy at the age of 80 years, 3 months, and 24 days. The body was taken to Arthur, Ill. on Saturday, where services were held and interment was made. He had made his home in this vicinity for several years, and was a civil war veteran. He leaves a wife and 1 son, Fred.
Thomas Hankins, at the age of sixteen, enlisted in the 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was with the Army of the West, first under General Grant and then under General Sherman. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Shiloh and many other battles, engagements and skirmishes.
When General Sherman started his march to the sea, through Georgia and the Carolinas, the 97th Infantry was detached from the main army and they, too, were stated to Mexico. They were loaded on an old sailing ship and started across the Gulf. On the way across the Gulf. On the way across, the ship ran into a tropical hurricane and when the storm was over the ship was a wreck wit the sails and mast blown away and had to be towed back to New Orleans.
When the war was over and Thomas Hankins was discharged from the army he came to Marion County to visit his sister who had married Roland Mattingly and was living in Iuka Township. While there he met and married Lizzie Hill, the daughter of a widow who had brought her family up from Kentucky after her husband was killed in a mountain feud. After farming and logging with oxen at Featherlys mill for a few years he bought a team of mules from Alf Finn and with his wife and twin boys, went to Kansas in a covered wagon. He worked his team on the grading gang when they were building the Union Pacific Railroad, hauled freight from the railhead west to the towns that the R.R. had not yet reached, and was in Dodge City and Abilene when Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Wid Bill Hickok were the law.
Those were turbulent times, with the cowboys driving their cattle up from Texas and holding them on the prairies until they could load them on the railroad while the James Brothers, the Younger Brothers, and other desperados, gunmen, and gamblers were at large.
When part of the Indian Teritory was opened for settlement, Thomas Hankins joined the land rush and staked out a claim built a house and moved his family in.
That fall, with some companions, he went down in the Territory to hunt buffalo for their winter meat, Thomas had just killed a buffalo when the Cavalry came and warned them that the Indians were threatening to go on the warpath.
On the 9th of June 1879 a tornado destroyed their home killing his wife and twin boys. After this tragedy and having difficulties with some of the rougher elements of the population he returned to Marion County.
In 1881 Thomas Hankins was married to Elizabeth Fulfer, and they moved to a farm north of Oskaloosa, in Clay County. After one year of of farming, which was a complete crop failure, they moved to Moultrie County, in the vicinity of Arthur. There he farmed until 1895 when he moved to the village of Cadwell where for the next 16 years he ran at various times a general store, a restaurant and the post office.
In 1911 the wanderlust hit again and he moved back to Marion County, this time to Omega Township, where he bought a farm in the Lostfork Creek bottoms which is now part of the Omega Lake ( Stephen A. Forbes State Park.) There he lived until July 1,1926 when he died at the age of 80 years old. His wife Elizabeth (Fulfer) Hankins Passed away March 22,1937 age 78. Their oldest son William Ross Hankins followed them in death May 1-1957at the age of 67. The oldest son Freddie Earl Hankins was a W.W. I Veteran and lived in Omega until his death on Feb 9th 1985.
Freddie was a well loved man in the community he was honored as Mayor of Omega with an award given to him at the Annual Ice Cream Supper.
This was written by Freddie all except the last paragraph it was added by his nephew Thomas J. Hankins son of William Ross Hankins.
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Kinmundy Express
Death Notice
July 8, 1926:
- Thomas B. HANKINS died at his home in Omega twp. on July 1 after several weeks illness of apoplexy at the age of 80 years, 3 months, and 24 days. The body was taken to Arthur, Ill. on Saturday, where services were held and interment was made. He had made his home in this vicinity for several years, and was a civil war veteran. He leaves a wife and 1 son, Fred.
JOHN HANKINS FAMILY FROM THE OMEGA IL. SESQUICENTENNIAL BOOK 1823-1973
Thomas Hankins, at the age of sixteen, enlisted in the 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was with the Army of the West, first under General Grant and then under General Sherman. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Shiloh and many other battles, engagements and skirmishes.
When General Sherman started his march to the sea, through Georgia and the Carolinas, the 97th Infantry was detached from the main army and they, too, were stated to Mexico. They were loaded on an old sailing ship and started across the Gulf. On the way across the Gulf. On the way across, the ship ran into a tropical hurricane and when the storm was over the ship was a wreck wit the sails and mast blown away and had to be towed back to New Orleans.
When the war was over and Thomas Hankins was discharged from the army he came to Marion County to visit his sister who had married Roland Mattingly and was living in Iuka Township. While there he met and married Lizzie Hill, the daughter of a widow who had brought her family up from Kentucky after her husband was killed in a mountain feud. After farming and logging with oxen at Featherlys mill for a few years he bought a team of mules from Alf Finn and with his wife and twin boys, went to Kansas in a covered wagon. He worked his team on the grading gang when they were building the Union Pacific Railroad, hauled freight from the railhead west to the towns that the R.R. had not yet reached, and was in Dodge City and Abilene when Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Wid Bill Hickok were the law.
Those were turbulent times, with the cowboys driving their cattle up from Texas and holding them on the prairies until they could load them on the railroad while the James Brothers, the Younger Brothers, and other desperados, gunmen, and gamblers were at large.
When part of the Indian Teritory was opened for settlement, Thomas Hankins joined the land rush and staked out a claim built a house and moved his family in.
That fall, with some companions, he went down in the Territory to hunt buffalo for their winter meat, Thomas had just killed a buffalo when the Cavalry came and warned them that the Indians were threatening to go on the warpath.
On the 9th of June 1879 a tornado destroyed their home killing his wife and twin boys. After this tragedy and having difficulties with some of the rougher elements of the population he returned to Marion County.
In 1881 Thomas Hankins was married to Elizabeth Fulfer, and they moved to a farm north of Oskaloosa, in Clay County. After one year of of farming, which was a complete crop failure, they moved to Moultrie County, in the vicinity of Arthur. There he farmed until 1895 when he moved to the village of Cadwell where for the next 16 years he ran at various times a general store, a restaurant and the post office.
In 1911 the wanderlust hit again and he moved back to Marion County, this time to Omega Township, where he bought a farm in the Lostfork Creek bottoms which is now part of the Omega Lake ( Stephen A. Forbes State Park.) There he lived until July 1,1926 when he died at the age of 80 years old. His wife Elizabeth (Fulfer) Hankins Passed away March 22,1937 age 78. Their oldest son William Ross Hankins followed them in death May 1-1957at the age of 67. The oldest son Freddie Earl Hankins was a W.W. I Veteran and lived in Omega until his death on Feb 9th 1985.
Freddie was a well loved man in the community he was honored as Mayor of Omega with an award given to him at the Annual Ice Cream Supper.
This was written by Freddie all except the last paragraph it was added by his nephew Thomas J. Hankins son of William Ross Hankins.
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Kinmundy Express
Death Notice
July 8, 1926:
- Thomas B. HANKINS died at his home in Omega twp. on July 1 after several weeks illness of apoplexy at the age of 80 years, 3 months, and 24 days. The body was taken to Arthur, Ill. on Saturday, where services were held and interment was made. He had made his home in this vicinity for several years, and was a civil war veteran. He leaves a wife and 1 son, Fred.
Thomas Hankins, at the age of sixteen, enlisted in the 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was with the Army of the West, first under General Grant and then under General Sherman. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Shiloh and many other battles, engagements and skirmishes.
When General Sherman started his march to the sea, through Georgia and the Carolinas, the 97th Infantry was detached from the main army and they, too, were stated to Mexico. They were loaded on an old sailing ship and started across the Gulf. On the way across the Gulf. On the way across, the ship ran into a tropical hurricane and when the storm was over the ship was a wreck wit the sails and mast blown away and had to be towed back to New Orleans.
When the war was over and Thomas Hankins was discharged from the army he came to Marion County to visit his sister who had married Roland Mattingly and was living in Iuka Township. While there he met and married Lizzie Hill, the daughter of a widow who had brought her family up from Kentucky after her husband was killed in a mountain feud. After farming and logging with oxen at Featherlys mill for a few years he bought a team of mules from Alf Finn and with his wife and twin boys, went to Kansas in a covered wagon. He worked his team on the grading gang when they were building the Union Pacific Railroad, hauled freight from the railhead west to the towns that the R.R. had not yet reached, and was in Dodge City and Abilene when Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Wid Bill Hickok were the law.
Those were turbulent times, with the cowboys driving their cattle up from Texas and holding them on the prairies until they could load them on the railroad while the James Brothers, the Younger Brothers, and other desperados, gunmen, and gamblers were at large.
When part of the Indian Teritory was opened for settlement, Thomas Hankins joined the land rush and staked out a claim built a house and moved his family in.
That fall, with some companions, he went down in the Territory to hunt buffalo for their winter meat, Thomas had just killed a buffalo when the Cavalry came and warned them that the Indians were threatening to go on the warpath.
On the 9th of June 1879 a tornado destroyed their home killing his wife and twin boys. After this tragedy and having difficulties with some of the rougher elements of the population he returned to Marion County.
In 1881 Thomas Hankins was married to Elizabeth Fulfer, and they moved to a farm north of Oskaloosa, in Clay County. After one year of of farming, which was a complete crop failure, they moved to Moultrie County, in the vicinity of Arthur. There he farmed until 1895 when he moved to the village of Cadwell where for the next 16 years he ran at various times a general store, a restaurant and the post office.
In 1911 the wanderlust hit again and he moved back to Marion County, this time to Omega Township, where he bought a farm in the Lostfork Creek bottoms which is now part of the Omega Lake ( Stephen A. Forbes State Park.) There he lived until July 1,1926 when he died at the age of 80 years old. His wife Elizabeth (Fulfer) Hankins Passed away March 22,1937 age 78. Their oldest son William Ross Hankins followed them in death May 1-1957at the age of 67. The oldest son Freddie Earl Hankins was a W.W. I Veteran and lived in Omega until his death on Feb 9th 1985.
Freddie was a well loved man in the community he was honored as Mayor of Omega with an award given to him at the Annual Ice Cream Supper.
This was written by Freddie all except the last paragraph it was added by his nephew Thomas J. Hankins son of William Ross Hankins.
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Kinmundy Express
Death Notice
July 8, 1926:
- Thomas B. HANKINS died at his home in Omega twp. on July 1 after several weeks illness of apoplexy at the age of 80 years, 3 months, and 24 days. The body was taken to Arthur, Ill. on Saturday, where services were held and interment was made. He had made his home in this vicinity for several years, and was a civil war veteran. He leaves a wife and 1 son, Fred.
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