William Banks senior died at his home on the evening of March 2nd 1895 at the age of 84 years.

His estate was estimated to be worth $35,000 (7,150 pounds sterling or in today’s money approximately $6,573,000 or 3,592,000 pounds sterling).

By the terms of his will, the home farm of 160 acres which included the “Rock House” and “Big Spring” together with all livestock viz. four mules, three ponies, twenty six head of sheep, and forty or fifty shoats (recently weaned pigs), as well as 160 acres of bottom land,* went to his niece Catherine Galbraith who had been his housekeeper for 30 years.

According to her funeral card, Catherine Galbraith, who was born May 5th, 1833 in Kent, England, died May 31, 1917 at the residence of her brother Peter Galbraith. She made bequests to a number of relatives and friends including her brother, his children, her sister Jane Christian (wife of James Christian) and her nephew John Peter Christian, both living in Peel, Isle of Man