from Breckinridge County, Kentucky – Biographies

James T. Hanks was born May 3, 1844, near Hardinsburg.  His father, John W. Hanks, was born March 26, 1810, in Knox County, Tennessee, where he grew to manhood.  When in his twenty-seventh year he removed to Kentucky, and located near Hardinsburg, in Breckinridge County, where he still resides.  He is a farmer and a son of Luke Hanks, who was a farmer and wagon-maker, and also engaged in other mechanical pursuits, and who was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, about 1771, and died in Breckinridge about 1855.  His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and of English descent.  John W. Hanks was married, in 1838, to Mrs. Caroline Dowell, daughter of Stephen Rollins, of Hardin County.  From this union sprang Robert B. and James T.  The latter’s marriage occurred October 13, 1872, to Miss Anna E., daughter of Reuben and Bettie A. (Jolly) Ricketts; to them have been born Ada, Myra and James R.  James T. Hanks engaged in farming until 1880, when he began merchandising at Stephensport.  He is a member, with his wife, of the Methodist Church, and in politics is a Democrat.