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Biography of HENRY BANGS, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards 
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	HENRY BANGS, planter, Booneville, Ark. For a number of years,
or since his residence in this county, the reputation which Mr. Bangs
enjoys has been not only that of a substantial and progressive
agriculturist, but of an intelligent and thoroughly posted man in
all public affairs. He was born in the Old Dominion on January 6,
1828, and is a son of Jacob and Abigail (Lawrence) Bangs, both natives
of Virginia. The father was a soldier in the Florida War, in which he
was killed by the Indians. The parents were married at Fortress Monroe,
and to them were born three children, of whom our subject is the eldest.
The other two, Benjamin and Stephen, are both farmers, and are living
in this township. The mother died about 1843. Henry Bangs, at the age
of thirteen years, joined the Florida troops, and was in service for
five years. He came to Arkansas, and was married in what is now Logan
County, in 1850, to Miss Sarah Walton, a native of Kentucky. Of the
twelve children born to this union - six sons and six daughters - seven
are now living, viz: George, Emily (wife of John Basinger), Levenia
(wife of Andrew Smith), Adelia (wife of A. Starns), Elizabeth (wife of
S. Suttles), Franklin and Robert. The mother of these children died in
the year 1882. She was a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Bangs
married his second wife, Mrs. E.C. Barlow, in 1886, she being a widow
with five children, viz: Alonzo, Ida (wife of Joseph Stanfield),
Looney (wife of B. Foster), Callie and Asa. Mr. Bangs has 240 acres
of good land, has 80 acres of this under cultivation, and raises corn
and hogs principally. He is a member of the Christian and his wife a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.