Person

William Banks

A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Betsey Hubbard on August 28, 1884, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.

What the sources support

Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that William Banks, 22, single, a farm hand born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Betsey Hubbard on August 28, 1884, in Clarke County, Virginia.

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What the source supports

That William Banks, a farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Betsey Hubbard in 1884.

Uncertainty

Read from this project's OCR of a scan of Duncan's printed abstract, not from the page image or from the register kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clarke County. Duncan's abbreviations are expanded using her key. The entry marks both him and his wife "(col)", Duncan's abbreviation, which her key defines as "colored". Nothing about William Banks beyond this entry is recorded here, and his parents and his wife get no records.

Source

Reference work

Evidence role: supports. Duncan's entry for the marriage.

Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1836-1886 (Heritage Books, 2008)

Patricia B. Duncan · 2008 (publication)

Locator: Page 57, register entry for the marriage of William Banks and Betsey Hubbard

Relevant passage

BANKS, William (col); s/o Fealin & Mary BANKS; 22y; sgl; farm hand; b. & res. ClrkVA; m. 28 Aug 1884 at ClrkVA to HUBBARD, Betsey (col); d/o Parker & Mary HUBBARD; 22y; sgl; b. & res. ClrkVA

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: duncan-clarke-marriages. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: BANKS, William. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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