Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper
unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997).  Reprinted in
Kentucky Explorer, Volume 11, Number 9 - March, 1997. p. 80. Unknown
County.

(Submitted by an individual with the last name of McKinney).

     Jas. Bankhead, M. D., came from Scotland and settled in Westmoreland
County, Virginia.  He maried Eleanor Monroe, sister of Vice President
James Monroe, and had issue - William, James, Eleanor, Jane, and Dr. John.
     Dr. John married Mary Warner Lightfoot (nee Lewis) and had Charles,
Lewis, John, Eleanor, Monroe, and William.
     Charles Lewis (son of Dr. John) married first Ann Carey Randolph and
had John, Thomas Mann, Eleanor, William. His second wife was Mary Ann
Carthrea - who bore him one child - Charles Lewis Bankhead, of Orange
County, Virginia. John, the second son of Dr. John married Elizabeth
Stuart, and had Mary (who married Wallace and settled near Shelbyville,
Kentucky); second, Rosalie (who married Lucian Dade and settled in
Hopkinsville, Kentucky); third, Eleanor Monroe (who married Dr Phillip
Thornton and died childless); fourth, Dr. William married Dorathea,
daughter of Gabriel Minor, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and had issue. 
First, Georgianna, who married William Moncure, of Stafford County,
Virginia; second, Mary Warner, who married Charles Lewis Bankhead, of
Orange County, Virginia; third, Bettie, who married Bickoton L. Winston,
of Hanover County, Virginia; fourth, Eleanor Monroe, married Jacquelin
Meredith, of Stafford County, Virginia; fifth, Rosalie Stuart, married
first Richard Winston, of hanover, and second Capt. Harry Selden; sixth,
Leonora, married John Mason Lee, of Stafford.  John Taliaferro married
Eliza Saunders, daughter of Dr. S. H. Saunders, of Missouri, and had
first, Mary Minor, married John G. Banks, of Henderson, Kentucky; second,
Rosalie Shields Bankhead of Virginia.
     John Bankhead, son of Charles Lewis and Ann Cary Randolph, married
Elizabeth White, of Virginia, and had first, Carey; second, Arch; third,
Martha. He and his descendants live in Louisiana, Missouri.  Thomas Mann,
second son of Charles Lewis, died childless.  William, third son, married
Elizabeth Garth and had two daughters.  He married three times and lived
in Alabama.  Charles Lewis, son of Charles Lewis by second marriage, has
no issue.

Bankhead Monroe Lightfoot Lewis Randolph Carthrea Stuart Wallace Dade
Thornton Minor Moncure Winston Meredith Selden Lee Taliaferro Saunders
Banks Garth 
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Christian-KY Scotland Westmoreland-VA Orange-VA Stafford-VA Hanover-VA MO
Henderson-Henderson-KY LA

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