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Descendants of William Harrison Willbanks

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM HARRISON⁴ WILLBANKS (HEZEKIAH³, SHADRACK², WILLIAM¹) was born October 05, 1842 in Greenville District, South Carolina, and died March 15, 1927 in Pontiac, MO. He married SARAH FRANCES HILLHOUSE September 05, 1861 in Cherokee County, Georgia, daughter of ELIJAH HILLHOUSE and NANCY MAULDIN.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON WILLBANKS:
      William was the third child of eighteen.
After he moved from Georgia, he changed the spelling of his name to Willbanks, with two l's. In Marion County, he built a log cabin on the hill overlooking Gooley Spring Creek, now a part of Bull Shoals Lake. He built the cabin out of logs he cut and hewed himself with a broad ax. The original one-room cabin is still there, but a house has been built around it. As of September, 1998, Argie Willbanks, the widow of William's youngest grandson, still lived there.
      William and Sarah had 10 children, 7 boys and 3 girls. Two of the girls, born in Georgia, died in infancy, and were buried in Cherokee County, Georgia. After his eldest son died, William's wife, Sarah almost lost her mind so he loaded up his wife and 6 children on a train and went back to Georgia for a year. He went to Marshall county, Alabama to visit his old maid aunts who lived near Crossville. He returned to Arkansas sometime in 1880. In Arkansas, William, called Grandpap by his kids, was a farmer.

More About WILLIAM HARRISON WILLBANKS:
Fact 1: 1848, Moved to Cherokee County Georgia.
Fact 2: May 13, 1862, volunteered in the Confederate Army PVT. Co 13, 34th regiment Infanatry
Fact 3: July 04, 1863, Became a prisoner of war at Vicksburg, Mississippi
Fact 4: July 08, 1863, Released from prison, returned to Georgia
Fact 5: 1873, Loaded up his wife and 5 children and moved to Texas
Fact 6: 1874, Moved to Marion County Arkansas, near the Missouri border.
Fact 7: 1879, After his son, William Jr. died, the family returned to Georgia for a year.
Fact 8: 1880, William and his family returned to Arkansas

      Children of WILLIAM WILLBANKS and SARAH HILLHOUSE are:

	i.	WILLIAM HARRISON⁵ WILLBANKS , JR., b. 1864; d. 1879, Pontiac, MO. Pontiac Cemetery.
2.	ii.	JAMES BARTON WILLBANKS, b. October 30, 1863; d. August 27, 1958, buried in Pontiac Cemetery.
3.	iii.	THOMAS H. WILLBANKS, b. September 14, 1868; d. November 15, 1918, Pontiac, MO.
4.	iv.	JOHN ROLLIN WILLBANKS, b. 1871; d. 1925, Pontiac, MO.
5.	v.	MARCUS R. WILLBANKS, b. 1873; d. 1942, Pontiac, MO Buried in Prce Place Cemetery.
6.	vi.	MATTHEW CARTWRIGHT WILLBANKS, b. May 06, 1876, Pontiac, MO; d. November 14, 1963, Po ntiac, MO Buried in Pontiac Cemetery.
7.	vii.	MILDRED WILLBANKS, b. 1879; d. 1974, Pontiac, MO Buried in Pontiac Cemetery.
8.	viii.	ELIJAH WILLBANKS, b. August 23, 1883, Pontiac, MO; d. November 23, 1971, Pontiac, MO.
	ix.	DICK WILLBANKS.

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