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From: Lynda Durfee <>
Subject: Re: [HANDCART-L] Sidney Alvarus Hanks
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:42:00 -0500
References: <3A12E6AE.5789C759@lgcy.com>


PPMU often has small photographs of men listed therein. The pictures
aren't in the text version at ancestry.com. They may be on PPMU on
various CDs. Ditto for LDS Biographical Encylopedia. However, I don't
think volume 4 has many photos, since it was something of a supplemental
volume. There are brief bios in similar sources at ancestry.com. You'll
have to check the printed books or CDs to see if they have pictures.

Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
Genealogies and Biographies
H
Privates

HANKS, SIDNEY ALVARUS (son of Benjamin Hanks and Martha Knowlton of
Madison, Lake Co., Ohio). Born Aug. 16, 1820, Madison. Came to Utah July
24, 1847, Brigham Young company. Married Mary Ann Cook June 7, 1862,
Salt Lake City (daughter of Benjamin Cook and Mary Jones of St. Johns,
Worcestershire, Eng.). She was born June 22, 1830. Their children:
Knowlton; Mary Ann, m. Thomas B. Brighton; Lydia H., m. Joseph H. Parry.
Family home, Salt Lake City.
Missionary to Society Islands. Farmer. Died March 9, 1870.

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Additional Biographies
Original Pioneers of Utah
Hansen, Hans Christian

Hanks, Sidney Alvarus, one of the original pioneers of Utah, was born
Aug. 16, 1820, at Madison, Lake Co., Ohio, a son of Benjamin Hanks and
Martha Knowlton. After his arrival in Great Salt Lake Valley with the
pioneers he did his part to establish homes for the companies of saints
who should follow, and in 1852 responded to a call to fill a mission to
the Society IslandS. From this mission he returned in 1860 and on June
1, 1862, married Mary Ann Cook, who became the mother of one son and two
daughters. The family located at Snyderville, near Parley's Park. In
March, 1870, having lost a cow, he set out to look for her and froze to
death. His body was not recovered until a month later

wrote:
>
> I am looking for a picture of Sidney Alvarus Hanks, born 16 Aug 1820, died 1
> April 1870. Sidney with the first group of settlers that arrived into the valley
> with Brigham Young in 1847. His brother, Ephraim K. Hanks, is my 3rd great
> grandfather. I need Sidney's image to complete a history of the Hanks family
> conversion. Sidney was instrumental is bringing Eph into the church as well as
> his cousin, Ebenezer Hanks. Both Eph and Eb served in the Mormon Battalion.
>
> Thank you for any help you can give me.
>
> Sherry Smith

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