Brief Life History of James Eyre
When James Eyre Banks was born on 5 July 1855, in At Sea, his father, Joseph Banks, was 34 and his mother, Charlotte Eyre, was 25. He married Emily Myers on 8 August 1874, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Greenville, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 30 June 1930, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Minersville Cemetery, Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- James E Banks, "United States Census, 1930"
- James E. Banks, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- James E in entry for Clifford Lyle Banks, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Beaver, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bank 5, with excrescent -s. The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’. Compare Bank 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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From the history of James Alma Banks "[When] my sister Emily Myers Banks [was] a young lady, [she] had a stroke and couldn't walk or talk for three or four days. On Sunday just before meeting time …
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