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Loans and Allowance - Subsequent Default (Details) $ in Thousands | 3 Months Ended | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) loan | Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($) loan | Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) loan | Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($) loan
Financing Receivable, Troubled Debt Restructuring [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of Loans | loan | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6
Recorded Balance | $ | $ 85 | $ 356 | $ 85 | $ 425
Commercial and farmland |  |  |  |
Financing Receivable, Troubled Debt Restructuring [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of Loans | loan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
Recorded Balance | $ | $ 85 | $ 262 | $ 85 | $ 262
Residential |  |  |  |
Financing Receivable, Troubled Debt Restructuring [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of Loans | loan |  | 2 |  | 4
Recorded Balance | $ |  | $ 83 |  | $ 152
Individuals' loans for household and other personal expenditures |  |  |  |
Financing Receivable, Troubled Debt Restructuring [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of Loans | loan |  | 1 |  | 1
Recorded Balance | $ |  | $ 11 |  | $ 11

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