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The Bankhead Family (1228 words) |
 | Senator Bankhead died in Washington, DC on March 1, 1920, and is buried in the family plot in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Alabama. |
| At the outbreak of the Civil War, John Hollis Bankhead enlisted as a Private inthe Army of the Confederacy and was in the conflict from the beginning to the end. |
| William Brockman Bankhead was buried in the Bankhead family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery in Jasper, Alabama. |
| Tallulah Bankhead at AllExperts (2017 words) |
| She was the daughter of speaker of the United States House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead, niece of Senator John H. Bankhead II, and granddaughter of Senator John H. Bankhead, all Democrats. |
| Bankhead circulated widely in the celebrity crowd of her day, and was a party favorite for outlandish stunts like performing underwearless cartwheels in a skirt or entering a soiree stark naked. |
| Tallulah Bankhead died in New York City of double pneumonia arising from influenza, complicated by emphysema, at the age of 66 on December 12, 1968, and is buried in Saint Paul's Churchyard, Chestertown, Maryland. |
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