My Hawkins Line
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Thomas Hawkins was born about 1710. He married Hannah in 1733. She was born about 1710.
Children are
1. William Hawkins born in 1737 Maryland. Died in 1819.
2. Thomas Hawkins born in 1740.
William Hawkins was born in 1737 in Maryland and died in 1819.
Children are
1. Reverand William H. Hawkins born in 1766 Maryland.
2. Ruth Hawkins born in 1769. Died at age 99. She never married and made her home with her brother, William.
3. Joshua Hawkins born March 20, 1780, Cumberland, Maryland. Died January 24, 1856 in Monroe County, Ohio.
Rev. William H. Hawkins b. 1766 in Hartford, Maryland. Died on November 5, 1855 in Paw Paw Township, Marion County, West Virginia.
Was married 4 times, Cassandra White, died before 1802, Catharine Brumage on June 17, 1804,and Martha Mary Snodgrass on December 19, 1816.
William and Cassandra White's children:
1.Cassandra Hawkins b. December 25, 1786.
2.Mary "Polly" Hawkins b. June 18, 1792. Married William King.
3.Idena Hawkins b. December 28, 1793. Married George Amos on October 10, 1816.
4.John Daniel Hawkins b. October 4, 1796. Married Francis Huggins on February 19, 1839.
5.Joshua T. Hawkins b. October 26, 1797. Married Mary Elizabeth Amos on January 7, 1819.
6.Isaiah Hawkins b. February 18, 1802. Married Jane Miller on August 7, 1821.
William and Catharine Brumage's children:
1.Josiah L. Hawkins b. February 9, 1814. Died April 10, 1887.
Joshua T. Hawkins b. October 26, 1797 in Pennsylvania. He was married to Mary Amos.
Joshua and Mary's children:
Charlotte Hawkins born April 6, 1820. Married Isaac Nay on March 25, 1841.
Harriet Hawkins born 1825. Married Enoch Hess on March 5, 1847.
William Milton Hawkins
Daniel D. Hawkins born October 6, 1828. Married Margaret Veach on April 11, 1847.
Simeon Hawkins born October 30, 1819. Married Elizabeth Ann Rice on November 2, 1840.
Simeon Hawkins was b. on October 30, 1819 in Marion County, Virginia. He was married to Eliza Rice.
Simeon and Eliza's children:
Joshua Tracy Amos Hawkins born 1844.
Photo from Ken Jaeck
Isaac Hawkins born 1846. Married Nancy Adaline Evans on July 1, 1878.
Benjamin F. Hawkins born 1849. Married Nancy Meyers. (See Biography below)
Wesley Hawkins
Delilah E. Hawkins b. 1841 in Harrison County, West Virginia.
Married April 2, 1858 in Tyler County, West Virginia to John B. Pipes. After the death of John, Delilah moved to Boone County, Indiana and married Henry Lucas.
Source: History of Boone County, Indiana, by Hon. L.M. Crist, 1914.
BENJAMIN F. HAWKINS
Among the most progressive and substantial agriculturists and stock men of Boone county is Benjamin F. Hawkins, who is now
living in retirement in Whitestown, Worth township, spending his declining years in quiet and comfort, a man who has so lived
that he can say in the twilight of his years that he is satisfied with his existence. He does not present any exceptional experience;
he merely reflects the sentiments of a large number of the noble, silent men, scattered here and there, who silently think and
silently work and whose achievements no newspaper chronicles. Carlyle, the great English author, tells us that these men are the
salt of the earth, and adds, "A country that has none or few of these is in a bad way. Like a forest which had no roots; which
had all turned into leaves and boughs; which must soon wither and be no forest. And woe for us if we had nothing but what we
can show."
Mr. Hawkins comes of a fine old Southern family and evidently inherited many praiseworthy traits from them. He was born in
Marion county, Virginia, in 1849, and is a son of Simeon H. and Eliza Ann Hawkins. Grandfather Hawkins was an Englishman
and he married a French woman. Our subject's maternal grandfather was born in Germany and from that country, where her
ancestors on both sides had long resided, she emigrated to America. The parents of our subject were both born in what is now
West Virginia, but was at that time a part of the Old Dominion. There they were reared and married and established their future
home and there the father's death occurred about 1888.
Benjamin F. Hawkins grew to manhood in Virginia and there received his education in the common schools. Later he came to
Indiana and settled in the southern part of Worth township, Boone county, where he began farming and became owner of two
hundred acres of fine land which he brought up to a high state of cultivation and improvement and which he still owns, and for
many years he ranked among the leading agriculturists of Boone county. On his place is to be seen a handsome residence and
large barns and outbuildings and always a good grade of live stock, but about nine years ago he retired from the active work of
the farm and removed to Whitestown where he now resides in one of the best homes in the township. He keeps his farm
rented, merely overseeing it in a general way. He has spent over a thousand dollars in improvements on his place during the
past two years.
After locating in Boone county and becoming well established here, Mr, Hawkins returned to Virginia, for his bride, Nancy
Meyers, who was born in Virginia and there grew to womanhood and was educated. She is a daughter of a highly respected
family of Virginia.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, named as follows: Eunice J., thirteen years of age; Myrtle M., ten
years old; and Gleona, who is now eight years old. They are all attending school, at this writing in Whitestown.
Fraternally, Mr. Hawkins belongs to the Masonic Order.
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