Hanks, O. T. (Orlando T.), 1844-1926

Born in San Augustine County, Texas, Orlando Thacker Hanks (1844-1926) was the son of Horatio McMullen Hanks (b. 1803) and Nancy Katherine Thacker (b. 1824). On February 11, 1847, Hanks married Susan Purnell Thacker, with whom he had at least ten children. Near the outbreak of the Civil War, Hanks joined Captain Benjamin Franklin Benton’s Company K of the First Texas Infantry in Hood’s Brigade, which became a part of the Northern Army of Virginia. Hanks’ recollections of the Benton’s Company have been published in History of Captain B.F. Benton’s Company, Hood’s Texas Brigade and A Yellow Rose in Old Dominion .

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