Memoranda concerning some branches of the Hawkins family and connections

Preface

I am aware of the incompleteness and imperfections of this account of the Hawkins family, but have caused it to be printed for distribution, with the hope that my work may be the basis of a more complete and satisfactory history by some member of the family who may be afforded better facilities than have been accorded myself for a satisfactory work.

I especially suggest to such persons that the records of Cardiff and other places in Wales be examined to trace the Hawkins family. Some of William Hawkins’ family went over to Wales.

Indianapolis, Indiana. JOHN P. HAWKINS.

The Hawkins Family of Devonshire, England

The following information is derived from an account of the Hawkins family contained in a book, 4 ‘The Plymouth Armada Heroes/’ by Miss Mary W. S. Hawkins, Buckfastleigh, South Devon, England, a descendant of Sir John Hawkins, Admiral:

Margaret Hawkins, daughter of Hawkins, mar-

ried William Amadas, Sergeant-at-Arms to Henry VIII. Joan Amadas, the only child, married John Hawkins, Esq., probably a cousin, living at Tavistock (Devon).

William, Captain R. N., Lord of the Manor of Sutton Valletore (or Vawter) ; Mayor of Plymouth, 1532; M. P. for Plymouth, 1552. He established English trade with the South Seas.

Henry, Clerk in Orders; deceased 1554.

Agnes, married Walter Trelawney, of St. Germans.

William Hawkins, Captain R. N., married Joan Trelawney.

CHILDREN.

William, Mayor of Plymouth 1567-8, 1578-9, 1587-8; commanded the “Griffin” in the tight against the Spanish Armada; died October 7th, 1589.

John (the Admiral), born 1532; Treasurer and Comptroller of the Navy ; Port Admiral of Plymouth ; Admiral in the Armada victory ; Member of Parliament 1571-2 ; died at sea off' Porto Rico, November 12th, 1595, after forty-three years of service. The genealogical table of Miss Hawkins gives a detailed statement of the children and near descendants of Sir John.

William Hawkins (brother of the Admiral), married, second, Marie Liaise.

CHILDREN.

William, R. N., son of first wife.

Richard.

Francis, born 1584.

Nicholas, born 1582; baptized at St. Andrew’s, Plymouth.

William, born February 29th, 1587. (He had two sons named William, both mentioned in his will.)

Judith.

Clare.

Mary, married 1601.

The above children were probably all born at Plymouth. Their descendants have not been traced by Miss Hawkins, and I do not know that any effort has been made by anyone to trace them.

Referring to the above Nicholas, there was also a Nicholas , grandson of the Admiral, born at Slapton, March 31st, 1639. There was a Robert Hawkins, of Diddeford, descendant of the Admiral, whose will, made in 1680, mentions his wife, Jane, and his brothers, Nicholas and Thomas. The name Nicholas seems to have been used in the families of both William and the Admiral.

In the Spring of 1895 I was in Raleigh, North Carolina, and called on Mrs. William Hawkins, who resided there. The Hawkins family of North Carolina left Virginia and settled in North Carolina about 1735. Their emigrant ancestor, Philemon Hawkins, came to Virginia in 1715, and many circumstances go to show that he settled near to an ancestor of mine, John Hawkins, of King William. The North Carolina family and my branch of the family have, for many generations, carried “Philemon” as a family name. I was very kindly welcomed as a relation by Mrs. Hawkins, and she informed me that the colored maid in presenting my card to her remarked : I never saw the gentle-

man before, but he is a Hawkins,” and Mrs. Hawkins, whom I had never previously met, was of the same opinion as to my resemblance to her branch of the family. She informed me that the maid could not read, so she could not have known my name from the card. The incident would also show that a strong family resemblance exists among the Hawkins of North Carolina.

In 1893 I sent my photograph to Miss Hawkins, of Devonshire (a descendant of the Admiral). She did not acknowledge receipt of it for some time, and excused the delay because of the recent death of her father. She remarked of the photograph, “which is rather like my father, and he was considered so like i

our portrait of Sir John.” The fact of this likeness is confirmed and emphasized by the following incident :

In the Fall of 1897 I was in London, staying at a house frequented by English people. One day a gentleman in the house was introduced to my wife, and he remarked that on his arrival the previous day he saw General Hawkins in the hall and was greatly startled for he was the exact image of a friend of his, a Mr. Hawkins, of Devonshire, recently deceased. This was the father of Miss Hawkins above referred to.

I afterwards made the acquaintance of Miss Hawkins, and was struck with her likeness to my sister, Margaret Speed. Between this sister and myself there has always been a strong resemblance.

During the past summer, 1912, I was was at Northfield, Mass., and was there introduced to a Miss Chapman, who informed me that she was of English birth. I asked her what part of England she came from. She said Devonshire. I then asked her if she knew any Hawkins people there. She said yes, had gone to school with them and added, “and you look just like them.”

Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the celebrated author, one time Chaplain of the United States Senate, wrote me June 26th, 1896, that he had a Hawkins descent through John Bouchier Sears (deceased 1540), who married Elizabeth Hawkins (of the AdmiraUs family). As the Admiral was born in 1582, Elizabeth must be of 5a date at least one generation previous to him. Dr. Hale said: “We think we find a likeness between the bust of

Hawkins and one of my sons, Arthur Hale. ? ’

I elsewhere mention that my nephew, Austin P. Speed, noted a marked resemblance between myself and a stranger to him, a descendant of Captain John Hawkins, Commissary of Provisions.

To recapitulate somewhat: It appears that there is a family likeness between many members of the different branches of the Hawkins family in America, embracing the Hawkins family of North Carolina, which claims descent from Sir John, the Admiral; the family of General William O. Butler, claiming descent from William, a brother of the Admiral ; the family of Dr. Edward Everett Hale, having a probable descent from an ancestry previous to the Admiral (a member of the same resembling a picture of the Admiral) ; my own family, that has always claimed to be of the same family as the Admiral, members of which in the present generation show a likeness to descendants of the Admiral and also a likeness to the North Carolina family, the William 0. Butler family (Captain John Hawkins, Commissary of Provisions), and a likeness to the Nathan Byrd Hawkins family, of Portland, Indiana.

The family of Captain John Hawkins, Fifth Maryland ; that of North Carolina, and my own family, have had for several generations the name Philemon as a family name. This would indicate a similar origin. The Maryland family claim descent from William, brother of the Admiral. Captain John Hawkins, Fifth Maryland, claims ancestry from an emigrant to Maryland in 1650, and Captain John Hawkins. Adjutant Third Virginia Regiment, had an ancestor emigrant to Maryland the same date. They doubtless had the same ancestor.

It may be affirmed as a rule in heredity that where a number of individual organisms, animal or vegetable, clearly resemble one another, they must have been derived from the same stock, and in the case of the Hawkins families here mentioned, though their actual kinship to John or William has not yet been traced, yet it may be assumed as a certainty that the father of these brothers, William Hawkins, Captain Royal Navy, who married Joan Trelawney, and the Admiral were ancestors of my branch of the family, and of those branches mentioned in this writing, and of other branches not here named, now living in the United States.

It may be assumed that there is some physical trait in my family that has been transmitted through ancestors for a period of now four hundred years. It is a wonderful example of the force of what may be termed a centripetal heredity; the more remarkable because I am not aware of any special peculiarity or mark in those of my blood that might be expected to reappear from one generation to another, but sure it is that our family, whether in England, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Indiana, Virginia, or Kentucky, has maintained a distinctive feature in looks that impresses others with their similitude, and this in opposition to the natural tendency or forces of diverse climates and environments that make for variation and the obliteration of original characteristics.

SIR JOHN HAWKINS, ADMIRAL.

John Hawkins was born at Plymouth, Devonshire, in 1532; was well educated, particularly in mathematics and navigation, and commenced his career as a navigator at an early age, making voyages to Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands.

It was during these voyages that he learned about the West Indies (all of them belonging to Spain), and learned that negroes were in demand at San Domingo and that they could be procured on the Guinea Coast. He formed a company of traders, and with three ships he sailed in 1562 to Sierra Leone, where he loaded with a cargo of negroes and sold them at different ports in San Domingo. This was followed by other like voyages and traffic.

Hawkins has been stigmatized as the first one to introduce slaves into America, but such is not the case. Charles Fifth authorized the importation of negroes into the West Indies as early as 1517 (forty-five years before Hawkins’ expedition), and in 1551 he offered for sale a license for the importation of seventeen thousand negroes. Up to 1562 the slave trade had been a monoply of the Spaniards and Portugese, but after Hawkins broke into this monopoly it was engaged in by other English subjects, under the protection of the English Government, and under treaty rights, and was not discontinued but maintained by the English Government up to 1807, when it was abolished after an existence of almost two hundred and fifty years.

It may be noted that in all the early narratives of these times there is no intimation that there was any wrong connected with it. It was a period when the elect chose to consider that God had given them the heathen for an inheritance, and human rights had so little influence in the minds of many good men that even religious schismatics and heretics were judged as proper subjects for slavery, as witness the following letter from Cotton Mather in 1681, the original of which is in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society :

“To the Aged and Beloved John Higginson :

“There be now at sea a ship (for our friend Elias Holcroft, of London did advise me by the last packet that it would be some time in August) called the Welcome, which has on board a hundred or more of the heretics and malignants called Quakers, with William Penn, the scamp, at the head of them.

“The General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Haxett, of the brig Porpoise, to waylay said Welcome, as near the end of Cape Cod as may be, and make captives of Penn and his ungodty crew, so that the Lord may be glorified and not mocked on the soil of this new country with the heathen worship of these people.

“Much spoil may be made by selling the whole lot to Barbadoes, where slaves fetch great prices in rum and sugar, and we shall not only do the Lord great service by punishing the wicked, but shall make great gain for His ministers and people. Yours in the bonds of Christ, Cotton Mather.”

The John II igginson to whom the letter was addressed was a Puritan minister at Salem, Mass., a pillar of the church and an active opponent of the Quakers. Having due regard for the times in which he lived, Cotton Mather was a good man but was not a Christian beyond his day and generation, and no doubt he advised selling the Quakers into slavery as more merciful than burning them. But the idea is repellant and it is pitiful to have his record and John Higginson's associated with Rum and Slavery.

The following is a further example of a habit of thought, at a period a little more than one hundred years ago.

Ezra Stiles, a clergyman and educator, — 1727-1795, — President of Yale College, accounted, at home and abroad, as the most learned and accomplished divine of his day, when a parish minister at Newport, Rhode Island, writes this in his diary of one of his parishioners late deceased.

“God had blessed him. with a good estate, and he and his family have been eminent for hispitality to all and charity to the poor and afflicted. At his death he recommended religion to his children, and told them that the world was nothing. The only external blemish on his character was that he was addicted to the marvelous in stories of what he had seen in his voyages and travels, but in his dealings he was punctual, upright and honest, and (except the fly in the ointment, the disposition to tell marvelous stories) in all other tilings he was sober, of good moral character, respected and beloved by all, so as to be almost without enemies. He was forward in all the concerns of the church and congregation, consulting its benefits and peaceably falling in with the general sense, without exciting quarrels, parties, etc., and even when he differed from his brethren, he so differed from them that they loved him amidst the difference, lie was a peaceable man and promoted peace.

“He was for many years a Guinea Captain, and had no doubt of the slave trade.”

But Stiles does not refer to this as constituting a “fly in the ointment.” This was written in 1773, but in 1785 Dr. Stiles speaks of the slave trade as “a most iniquitious trade in the souls of men.” He woul$ then have noted it as a very large fly in the ointment, twelve years having given him a new light and language to express his abhorrence.

Sir John Hawkins died in 1595. Dr. Stiles was of the sixth generation from that date. It required two hundred years of Christian progress to give him a conscience to denounce the traffic. The world moves ahead by slow evolution, and it is not in the line of fairness or good judgment to harshly condemn the historic characters of any age for being permeated with, and influenced by, the ideas of their times, and so acting in unison with their environments.

English contemporary writers say of Sir John Hawkins: ‘ ' He was graceful in his youth, and a grave and reverend aspect as he advanced in years ; a skilful mathematician, with a thorough knowledge of maritime affairs; of an almost unbounded capacity for work; an upright administrator who for forty-eight years was in the active service of his country ; submissive to his superiors and courteous to his inferiors, extremely affable to his seamen and remarkably loved by them; merciful, forgiving, and faithful to his word; the ablest seaman of his day, and the best shipwright that England had ever produced; of all the Elizabethan galaxy, the most nearly to approach the typical Englishman; a very wise, pious, vigilant, true-hearted man; the very solidity of his virtues, the very greatness of his deeds have caused them to be inadequately esteemed. His popularity among his neighbors was great, and he was three times elected a member of Parliament.”

It may be termed an assumption of self righteousness for this generation to enter judgment, according to present standards for Christian conduct, against the noted worthy Puritans, Cotton Mather and John Higginson.— the pious and kindly parishioner of Ezra Stiles, — or the renowned Sea Captain. — a hero of the Armada victory, — Admiral Sir John Hawkins.

SOME ACCOUNT OF MY BRANCH OF THE HAWKINS

FAMILY.

The earliest record that I have discovered of my branch of the Hawkins family in America is in a grant of land to John Hawkins, of King William County, Virginia, in 1731, and in Deed Book A, Page 136, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, record of a Deed to him of four hundred acres of land on the Pamunky on both sides of the mouth of Terry’s Run, or Gigging River. This John Hawkins is again mentioned as recently deceased, in Deed Book D, Page 17, Spotsylvania County, November 16th, 1742, where it appears that his wife’s name was Mary, and the following children were mentioned :

Joseph=Jane ; died 1769.

Philemon— Sarah Smith, about 1743; died 1779.

Elizabeth=George Smith (a brother of Sarah).

Phoebe=Charles Smith (a brother of Sarah).

Mary=Taliafero Craig; died 1804. Parents of the Baptist preachers, Lewis and Elijah Craig.

The will of Joseph Hawkins is recorded in Deed Book D, Page 525, Spotsylvania County, March 30th, 1769, wherein he mentions his wife, Jane; his children, John, Joseph, Lucy and Sarah. His brother Philemon was one of the witnesses.

Elizabeth Hawkins I have no certain knowledge of. It is probable that the Frances Smith who married the Rev. Elijah Craig was her daughter. It will be noticed hereafter that a George Smith and many of the Craig or Hawkins connection were present on the 3rd of July, 1784, at a church meeting at South Elkhorn. It is also probable that he and his wife were of the “Traveling Church.”

Phoebe Hawkins: I have had some correspondence with Mr.

John Philemon Smith, of Sharpsburg, Aid., and he informs me that he has an Uncle Philemon Smith in Gaithersburg, Md., who says he often heard his father speak of his Aunt Sally Hawkins. The father of John Philemon Smith was John Hawkins Smith, and his grandfather’s name was Philemon McElfresh Smith. I have no doubt that my correspondent is a descendant of Phoebe Hawkins. The records of Spotsylvania or Orange County would probably show the facts.

Philemon Hawkins and Sarah Smith (her father was Stephen Smith) were my ancestors. In the records of Spotsylvania County is the following, under the heading of “ Colonial Militia” :

“Philemon Hawkins, Gentleman, commissioned to be Captain of a Company of Foot; took the oath February 5tli, 1750.”

It was the custom in Virginia, to divide each County into Military Districts, each District raising a Company. The entire force of the County being under the command of a Colonel.

Commencing July 21st, 1755, he was enrolled as Captain in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. William Byrd, in the war between Great Posetam and France, in 1780. llis heirs were granted a warrant by the State of Virginia for 3,000 acres of land for his services as Captain. This warrant, according to Kentucky records, was entered by Elijah Craig. Any female descendant of Philemon Hawkins is entitled to membership in the Society of Colonial Dames. Philemon Hawkins, as the most distinguished of his family in those early days, is entitled to be honored by those of his blood by perpetuating the name of Philemon through future generations. The name seems to have been in the family in the old country. Maryland records show a Philemon Lloyd Hawkins as an emigrant from Wales.

Philemon Hawkins’ will is recorded in Book 2, Page 334. Spotsylvania County, May 6th, 1779. He mentions his children as follows :

John, born August 29th, 1744; married first, Margaret Jameson, 1767; second, Sarah Johnson, April 13th, 1771.

Joseph, no record.

Frances (or Frankie), married Richard Thomas.

Philemon, married Catharine Craig, daughter of Lewis Craig.

Lucy, married Jeremiah Craig. Lewis and Jeremiah were sons of Taliaferro Craig and Mary Hawkins.

The above John Hawkins was my great grandfather. My great grandmother, Margaret Jameson, died September 12th, 1770. His will, made October 30th, 1804, was probated September, 1806, at Georgetown, Ky. The children mentioned in his will were as follows. (The first two are children of Margaret Jameson.) :

Jameson, born August 21st, 1768; married Ruth Ann Threlkeld.

Philemon, born July 13th, 1770 . married Elsie Lewis, December 3rd, 1799.

Peggy, married Harry Cave.

Sally Smith, married Thomas P. Thomas (a cousin).

Nancy, married William Cason. (A grandson of Nancy. John D. Cason, lives in Pomona, California.)

John, married Joanna Harrison.

Fanny, married General Philemon Thomas (a cousin) ; his second wife.

Betsey, married William Faulkner. (A son or grandson was Alexander — “Sandy" — Faulkner, celebrated as the author of the “Arkansas Traveler,” who died about 1861.)

William, married Lydia Todd Francis; was born July 10th, 1784; died July 8th, 1845; was at the battle of New Orleans. A descendant married her cousin, John D. Cason. The family of William moved to Howard County, Missouri.

Lucinda, married Davis subsequent to 1805. She

had two daughters ; they moved to Missouri about 1825.

Katy Hawkins. I have no record of her.

My great grandfather, John Hawkins, emigrated to Kentucky in 1788, stopping first at Bryans Station. Two or three years afterward he moved to Scott County and settled on a farm near Georgetown, on the Frankfort road, in the neighborhood of the “Great Crossing” of the Elkhorn. He and his wife, Sarah, are buried on the farm. The large stone house built by him is still standing; an addition of brick is built in front of it, so that it is not visible from the road. The graves are in an enclosure, — a stone wall, — about fifty yards to the rear of the house. The farm was purchased by him from Patrick Henry. They were members of the “Great Crossing” Baptist Church. I have no record that would identify this John Hawkins as a soldier of the Revolution, but my grandfather Jameson Hawkins always said that his father bore an honorable part therein ; that he was an officer, and that on one occasion, in a fight in the woods, he lost an epaulette. My grandfather was fifteen years old at the close of the War, and had intimate personal relations with his father for more than twenty years after the close, and as he was a person of unusual intelligence and strict veracity, there is every reason to believe his statement as true, and as according to his own knowledge.

Francis (or Frankie) Hawkins, who married Richard Thomas, had the following children : Philemon, David, Row-

land, Thomas P., and five daughters. A daughter, Sally, married a Harrison ; another daughter. Lucy, married a son of Catherine Craig and Philemon Hawkins. Philemon Thomas became distinguished in Louisiana as a politician and a miliary man ; his first wife was Mary, a daughter of Lewis Craig ; he was in Kentucky as early as 1791. probably much before that date; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature.

Referring back to Joseph, the brother of my great grandfather, John Hawkins, I have no record of him, but my cousin, Sally Hawkins Long (now deceased, and to whom I am indebted for much family history) once wrote me: “Our grandfather,

Jameson Hawkins, had three cousins who at one time lived in Boone County, Ky. Joseph and Thomas Hawkins and their sister, Mrs. Sally Forman or Firman. The first two died in Kentucky. Sally moved to Boone or Callaway County, Missouri, with her two sons, Joseph and Ben. I remember them well.”

“Thomas never married. Cousin Joe had no children, but a great deal of brains, money and piety. ’ ’ I think it very probable that these cousins were the children of Joseph, the brother of my great grandfather, John.

Jameson Hawkins, my grandfather, married Ruth Ann Tlirelkeld, October 4th, 1786. She was born, December 5th, 1766, in Culpeper County, Virginia. He died at Indianapolis, September 16th, 1840; she died December 29th, 1852; both are buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in the lot of a grandson, Nicholas McCarty.

Jameson Hawkins emigrated with his father to Kentucky in

1788; moved afterward to Boone County to a farm near Burlington, and for several periods represented that County in the Kentucky Legislature; he was a person of good physique, well read, an impressive speaker, and for many years an exhorter in the Baptist church, before being regularly ordained in 1830. His wife, Ruth Ann Threlkeld, was the daughter of John Threlkeld and Nancy Johnson. John Threlkeld was a soldier in the War of the Revolution; belonged to Captain Mercer’s Company, Third Virginia Regiment. The name is printed “Thraikill” in Saffell, an erroneous and not an unusual spelling, and very much as pronounced. He returned from the War, but died soon after reaching home, — about 1780, — from sickness incident to the service. IT is father was Henry Threlkeld, who died in 1776.

My great grandmother, Nancy Johnson Threlkeld, had three brothers, — Andrew, William and John. Her children were, Jesse, Ruth Ann (born 1766), Margaret, Sarah, William (born 1769). Margaret married William Cave, born in Orange County, Virginia, about 1740, and came to Kentucky with the “Traveling Church.” He was the son of Benjamin Cave, who frequently represented that County in the Assembly. In May, 1785, he helped to form the “Great Crossing Church”; about 1795 he moved to Boone County; died in 1806. A son or grandson, John Cave, lived in our family in Covington, Indiana, and was a clerk in my father’s store; died about 1834. I do not know if others of that family are still living. Sarah married William Rodgers. William married Sally Burt. A son of the latter was killed at the battle of New Orleans. Her mother was Hannah Greene. A letter from Mr. Cyrus Threlkeld, of Uniontown, Kv., informs me that after the death of her husband, Nancy Johnson (Threlkeld) moved to Kentucky in company with Toliver Craig, Jr., her uncle by marriage, her brother, Andrew Johnson, and others. It would therefore appear that my great grandmother was of the notable band, members of the Spotsylvania Baptist Church, that accompanied Lewis Craig, their pastor, in his emigration to Kentucky in 1781, for the name of Toliver Craig, Jr., is in the list, — (a very incomplete list), — of those who, starting from Virginia in October, 1781, endured the hardships of a winter march to find a home in Kentucky, where they could rest secure from the persecutions they had endured. For an account of this march see “The Traveling Church.’’ a paper read before the Filson Club of Louisville, Ky. And in this connection is to be noted that Deed Book I, Page 684, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, August 11th, 1781, shows that Philemon Hawkins, Catharine Craig, his wife, and his mother, Sarah Hawkins (my great grandmother) sold the farm on which they lived on the Pamunkey, and it is extremely probable that these also were of the ‘ ‘ Traveling Church.

It will be borne in mind that Catherine was a daughter of Lewis Craig, the pastor of the church. There is record of this Philemon Hawkins and his wife, Catharine, being in Kentucky as early as 1784, several years before my great grandfather, John, came in 1788. They are mentioned as members of the Great Crossing Church, Scott County, July 30th, 1784. The Sarah Johnson who married John Hawkins as his second wife was a sister of Nancy Threlkeld, so that Jameson Hawkins and Ruth Ann Threlkeld were step-cousins, but no blood kin. After the death of her husband, Catharine Craig married King.

The children of Jameson Hawkins (my grandfather) and Ruth Ann Threlkeld were as follows :

John (mv father), born August 15th, 1787; married Elizabeth Waller at or near Paris, Ky., January 31st, 1816; died October 11th, 1841, at Crawfordsville, Ind.

Gabriel, born at Bryan Station, Ky., December 4th, 1788 ; married Elizabeth Bradford, October 24th, 1813 ; died August 1st, 1836, at Lexington, Mo.

Elijah, born October 7th, 1796; married Sophia Bradford, September 11th, 1814; died August 30th, 1841, at Hannibal, Mo.

Philemon, born January 24th, 1792; died September 26th, 1858; married, first, Mary White, April 8th, 1824; second. Sina Arnold, March 20th, 1836 ; third, Lydia Elston, August lltli, 1853. Children : Canby, born April 10th, 1859=Elnora Polk,

born September 22nd, 1880. Children: Vesa Polk, born August 27th, 1883=Clarence P. Newcomb, born June 6th, 1906, lives at Basela Las Ainas County, Colorado. Canby Hawkins lives at Weston, Missouri.

Margaret, born October 26th, 1793; married Nicholas Mc- Carty July 27th, 1828, in Boone County, Kentucky; died July 18th, 1873, at Indianapolis, Ind.

Moses, born January, 1795; married Ann Everett; died December 30th, 1853, near Hannibal, Mo.

Sarah Ann, born March 8th, 1797; unmarried; died November 3rd, 1862.

Sally, born November, 1788; died February 10th, 1811.

Philemon Hawkins, the second son of John Hawkins and Margaret Jameson, who married Elsie Lewis December 3rd, 1799, died in Boone County, Ky., November 2nd, 1825, and was buried at Middle Creek Church, Boone County. She died December 10th, 1854. Soon after the death of her husband she moved to Missouri and settled in Ralls County, where, and in adjoining counties, some of her descendants now live. I am indebted to her grandson, John F. Hawkins, of Hawkins Station, Mo., for valuable information concerning the family. Some of Philemon’s children remained in Kentucky. One of them, Fanny, the oldest daughter, married Benjamin Bledsoe; they lived in Mason County. Sally Bledsoe, a daughter, married Archibald Alexander; they moved to Boone County, Ind., and lived on a farm near Jamestown, and were always called by us “Cousin Alexander.” She was a dear friend of my father, a very religious woman, a member of the Christian church, and highly esteemed by all who knew her.

Archibald Alexander used to represent Boone County in the State Legislature ; they had a son, Paxton, who married and raised a family; a daughter of Pavton married I. H. Brill, Pittsboro, Ind. ; a son lives in Mound City, Mo. ; the latter has whatever Alexander records there may be. Another daughter (Bledsoe) married John Magee; there were two children by this marriage, one of them the mother of Dr. M. P. Robinson, of Lexington, Ky., and his sister, Mrs. D. T. Ambrose, of the same place.