Loans and Asset Quality Information (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2018
Loans and Leases Receivable Disclosure [Line Items]
Payments that exceeded carrying amount of PCI loans	$ 290	$ 190
Loan discount accretion income	263	149
Additional loan interest income	27	$ 41
SBA Loans
Loans and Leases Receivable Disclosure [Line Items]
Remaining unaccreted discount	6,900		$ 5,700
Purchased Non-Impaired Loans
Loans and Leases Receivable Disclosure [Line Items]
Remaining unaccreted discount	13,000		15,000
Real estate – mortgage – residential (1-4 family) first mortgages
Loans and Leases Receivable Disclosure [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans in process of foreclosure	$ 1,300		$ 700

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Discount accretion loan interest income.

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The amount of the loan's contractually required payments receivable in excess of the amount of its cash flows expected to be collected. This relates to loans with deteriorating of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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Recorded investment of consumer mortgage loan receivables secured by residential real estate properties for which formal foreclosure proceedings are in process.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 35
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118936363&loc=SL49126937-111524

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