John Flournoy Hankla

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(Research):Census Listings:

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Beat No. 3, P. O. Brookeland
Enumerated 21 Aug 1870
633-633
Hankla, John F 35 M W Farmer $2000 $500 Ky
Hankla, Martha 24 F W Keeping House Texas

Family/Spouse: Martha Catherine Evans. Martha was born about 1846 in Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On his Texas Death Certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, his usual occupation was shown as "Farmer." He was shown as a son of John Hankla of Kentucky, with his mother's maiden name being Evans. He was showsn as married.

(Medical):See attached sources.

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On his Texas Death Certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, he was listed as a retired farmer, and the son of John Hankla and Martha Evans. The informant was his daughter, Florine Hankla Ramsey.

Family/Spouse: Lula Elma Smith. Lula was born on 23 Sep 1895 in Texas; died on 18 Jan 1964 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Myrtle Springs Cemetery, Geneva, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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San Augustine Tribune
Thursday, May 26, 1932, Vol. XXIV, Number 9

School Term Brought to Successful Close

Thursday night at the high school auditorium the commencement exercises were attended by a large crowd....diplomas were presented by R. V. Greer, superintendent of the local schools to the following candidates:Randolph Hankla, Charles S. McMillan, Willys G. Blount, Sam Henry Williams, Lois Marie Thompson, A. C. Everett, Evon McLemore, Willie Mae Stevenphson, Geneva Stallings. Earl McEachern, Hoyt J. Alford, Sidney Westbrook, Allene Stewart, Ruby Mitchill, Mildred Whitton, Clifford Childers, Bonnie Partin, Zelma Soward, Alran Hays, James Bridges, Helen Alford and Early Needham.

Family/Spouse: Allene Whitton. Allene (daughter of Columbus Lee Whitton and Nancy "Nannie" Mahalya Williard) was born on 10 Nov 1919 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 8 May 2012 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Liberty Hill Cemetery, Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Florine Hankla Ramsey

Florine Hankla Ramsey was born in Geneva, Sabine County, Texas on December 19, 1920 and died December 5, 2009 in Austin, Texas. She was the third of four children born to Samuel Flournoy and Elma Smith Hankla.

She found the love of her life when she married Ben Ramsey, an attorney and Texas State Senator from San Augustine, in 1943. They were married in Boulder, Colorado, where she was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They honeymooned on a road-trip back to San Augustine through Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, using precious gasoline ration coupons given to them by friends and family as wedding gifts.

While she loved Austin and resided there for most of her adult life, her roots were in East Texas. She maintained a home in San Augustine and continued to vote there for the rest of her life. She attended Stephen F. Austin State College in Nacogdoches, North Texas State College in Denton as well as the University of Colorado at Boulder. She taught first through third grade in a one-room schoolhouse in San Augustine County.

Florine was a proud member of the Ezekiel Cullen Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and her ancestors were early settlers in Sabine County in East Texas.
She grew up on a farm where every meal was made from scratch and learned from her mother to be a masterful cook and baker. She even gave renowned cookbook author and teacher, Helen Corbitt (director of food service for Neiman Marcus, the Driskill Hotel and The University of Texas), a few tips and recipes. To this day, a meat processing company in Austin still uses her recipe for making the best venison sausage ever. Florine loved to travel and for more than 50 years was part of a monthly poker group.

For more than 30 years, Florine was a political wife: when Ben was a State Senator, Texas Secretary of State, Lt. Governor of Texas, and Railroad Commissioner for the State of Texas. She cut an elegant and stylish figure at the Capitol and was known throughout her life for being smart, witty and charming. You could just as easily find her beautifully attired in a ball gown or up on the roof of their home repairing a shingle. She was one of the lucky few able to call the Texas State Capitol home, living in the Lt. Governor's apartment for more than a decade with her family. She recalled having to haul groceries through the chamber when the Senate was in session. She was the longest serving member of the Senate Ladies Club having joined in 1944.

She is preceded in death by her parents; by her brothers Randolph and Jim Hankla; and by her beloved husband of 41 years, Ben Ramsey. She is survived by her older sister, Ernestine Hankla Henry, of Nacogdoches; by her three daughters: Rita Ramsey Kreisle and husband Matthew of Austin; Ann Hankla Ramsey of San Augustine; and MariBen Ramsey and partner Karen Kahan of Austin; by her only grandchild, Claudia Ramsey Kreisle of Houston; and by many nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at the First United Methodist Church in San Augustine, Texas on Tuesday, December 8 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Florine and Ben Ramsey Scholarship Fund at the San Augustine Scholarship Foundation, PO Box 671, San Augustine, TX 75972, to the Austin Community Foundation, P.O. Box 5159, Austin, TX 78763 (www.austincommunityfoundation.org) or to a charity of your choice.

Arrangements by Wyman Roberts Funeral Home, San Augustine

Published in the Austin American Statesman on December 6, 2009

Published in The Sabine County Reporter, December 9, 2009

Published in The San Augustine Tribune, December 19, 2009

Florine married Ben T. Ramsey about 1943 in Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado. Ben (son of Judge William Charles Ramsey and Emma T. Jenkins) was born on 28 Dec 1903 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 27 Mar 1985 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Presumably was called "Jim," as this is how he was referenced in the obituary of his sister, Florine Hankla Ramsey

On his Texas Death Certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, his usual occupation was shown as Poultry Buyer. The informant was his wife, Reba Hankla. He died of a fractured cervical verterbrae, as the result of a 2 car head-on collision

Hiram married Reba Jane Arnold on 21 Mar 1949 in McMahan's Chapel, Sabine County, Texas. Reba (daughter of Dewey Bronson Arnold and Burlie Jane McGown) was born on 3 Mar 1929 in Geneva, Sabine County, Texas; died on 23 Aug 2005 in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas; was buried in Myrtle Springs Cemetery, Geneva, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]