Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection pertains primarily to three generations of the Hanks family: Green P. and Fanny Hanks, Wilbur G. and Martha Hanks, and Ora Joe Hanks of Johnson, Arkansas. Green P. Hanks (1838, Boonsboro, Arkansas-1929) served in the US army during the Civil War and was honorably discharged in 1865. Wilbur G. Hanks (1870-1931) was justice of the peace in Johnson, Arkansas. Ora Joe Hanks graduated from the Fayetteville, Arkansas, High School in 1922 and received the Teachers' Course certificate...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection pertains primarily to three generations of the Hanks family: Green P. and Fanny Hanks, Wilbur G. and Martha Hanks, and Ora Joe Hanks of Johnson, Arkansas. Green P. Hanks (1838, Boonsboro, Arkansas-1929) served in the US army during the Civil War and was honorably discharged in 1865. Wilbur G. Hanks (1870-1931) was justice of the peace in Johnson, Arkansas. Ora Joe Hanks graduated from the Fayetteville, Arkansas, High School in 1922 and received the Teachers' Course certificate...