Susan Alexander Herrera has found a family Bible record that declares the father of George to be Joel. Now I need a copy of that from her to post here.
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The good news is that Jeanette Kennedy sent me a legal document proving all the children of Nimrod Taylor. The bad news is that their mother is named Phoebe, last name not known. I never want to see any amateur, fiction-writing "genealogist" naming her as Judith Phoebe Bankston. But mark my words, within a year some idiot will do exactly that, and it will soon be in hundreds of Ancestry trees, another rumor that refuses to die. But that is a good way to winnow the wheat from the chaff, as with all the other rumors that refuse to die. If you see a tree with that name, you will know that you are looking at a garbage collection instead of a genealogy, and you can safely ignore the entire tree as worthless. E'nuf of that. If you are interested to discover Phoebe's maiden name, you need to get the DNA tested for all of your oldest relatives who are willing to do a DNA test, especially grandparents, parents, and uncles ...
By exhaustive study of the Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records 1785-1805 published in 1996 by Frank Parker Hudson, Cynthia Forde has confirmed that there was only one adult Jacob Bankston in Wilkes County, Georgia before 1795. Confusion arose from the fact that the militia districts changed from year to year, making it appear as if there were more than one Jacob Bankston.
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