JOHN A. HAWKINS, farmer, Ohio County, was born near
Knottsville, Daviess Co., Ky., July 28, 1838, and is the seventh of fourteen
children, of whom may be mentioned Dr. James D. Hawkins, a practicing physician
in Old Mexico; Upton W., at Cloverport, Breckinridge County; Mrs. Lucy A. Montgomery;
Mrs. Amanda Graves, residing near Owensboro, Ky.; Joseph E., in Daviess County;
Abiah Chamberlain, in Daviess County. Mr. Hawkins was the son of Aaron and
Elizabeth (Madox) Hawkins, the former a native of Maryland, born in 1791, and
the latter of Virginia, born in 1796, and removed to Knottsville, Daviess
County, in 1820. Both his maternal and paternal ancestors removed to Tennessee
about 1797 or 1798. J. A. Hawkins was brought up on a farm and, December 17,
1857, was married to Miss Elizabeth P., the only child of Madison and Mary Jane
(Mudd) Crisp, of Marion County, where she was born September 2, 1839, and
removed to Daviess County at the age of eighteen. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are the
parents of eleven children, seven of whom are living: Aaron M. (married Mary
Tina, the eldest daughter of Albert May; they have three children), John A.,
James T. (deceased), Mary Jane, Francis E., Martin Commodore, Joseph Franklin
(deceased), Samuel Leslie, and Ollie Hayden. Mr. Hawkins owns 246 acres of
land, with good buildings and other improvements. He has acquired a good home
by industry and economy, as he began with little or no money. He fills the
office of overseer of roads and takes a deep interest in matters pertaining to the best interests of
the community.
Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G.
C. KNIFFIN 1895
Note: John Alexander Hawkins died 28 April 1896 in Daviess County, KY. He apparently lived in Ohio County from about 1840 until his death. He was drafted to serve in the Civil War in July 1863 - he was age 25 at the time. John's wife, Elizabeth, died 22 March 1910. Both are buried in the (Old) Panther Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Daviess County (near the Ohio County-Daviess County line).
Panther Creek Baptist Church
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