Son of Zophar Hawkins and Eleanor Smith, he married Sarah Ann Hawkins on January 17, 1839, the daughter of Merrit Hawkins and Anna Hawkins. She was born July 21, 1815 and died November 20, 1879. Father of Hester Ann Hawkins who married Ethelbert Selleck.
In 1860, Ebenezer Hawkins, aged 44, was living in Brookhaven, NY, post office Setauket, with his wife, Sarah A. Hawkins, aged 44. Also living in the household were Hester A. Hawkins, aged 20, Ebenezer S. Hawkins, aged 23, and Thomas J. Thorne, aged 18. Ebenezer was shown to be a farmer.
Obituary - This community was once again shocked on Tuesday morning last by the sudden announcement that Ebenezer Hawkins, a leading farmer in the neighborhood, and for the past 35 years known throughout this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, had committed suicide. The deceased was one who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was apparently a thing unknown; but trouble, which is sometimes imaginary and sometimes real, finally came to the deceased. The sudden death of Ebenezer, Jr. (a nephew), which is supposed to have resulted by his own hand on the premises last fall, and the subsequent sickness and death of Mrs. Hawkins (wife of the deceased), evidently preyed deeply upon his mind, and for the past two months he had shown symptoms of mental aberration. His faculties, however, were such that he was enabled to attend to his domestic affairs, and but few suspicioned that he would commit the rash act which ended his life. At about 2 o'clock A.M. on Tuesday last, the inmates of the house were alarmed by the discharge of a gun, and proceeding to the room of the deceased, found that he had shot himself in the side, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. The sad affair casts a shade of sorrow over this village, and the family connections have the sympathy of the community in their terrible bereavement which has devastated a household. Justice O.W. Rogers empanelled a jury, and in the absence of a coroner held the proper inquest, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the above facts.
Also - A leading farmer in the area and for 35 years known in this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was a thing unknown.
But on the 30th of March, 1880, at about 2:00 a.m, after the suicide of his nephew Ebenezer Smith Hawkins and the death of his wife, Sarah, he took his own life by shooting himself and subsequently died from his injuries.
(Long Island Surnames; 1860 US Federal Census; Ebenezer Hawkins in the U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885; South Side Signal (Babylon), Saturday, April 03, 1880, Page: 3; The corrector., April 10, 1880, Page 2)
In 1860, Ebenezer Hawkins, aged 44, was living in Brookhaven, NY, post office Setauket, with his wife, Sarah A. Hawkins, aged 44. Also living in the household were Hester A. Hawkins, aged 20, Ebenezer S. Hawkins, aged 23, and Thomas J. Thorne, aged 18. Ebenezer was shown to be a farmer.
Obituary - This community was once again shocked on Tuesday morning last by the sudden announcement that Ebenezer Hawkins, a leading farmer in the neighborhood, and for the past 35 years known throughout this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, had committed suicide. The deceased was one who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was apparently a thing unknown; but trouble, which is sometimes imaginary and sometimes real, finally came to the deceased. The sudden death of Ebenezer, Jr. (a nephew), which is supposed to have resulted by his own hand on the premises last fall, and the subsequent sickness and death of Mrs. Hawkins (wife of the deceased), evidently preyed deeply upon his mind, and for the past two months he had shown symptoms of mental aberration. His faculties, however, were such that he was enabled to attend to his domestic affairs, and but few suspicioned that he would commit the rash act which ended his life. At about 2 o'clock A.M. on Tuesday last, the inmates of the house were alarmed by the discharge of a gun, and proceeding to the room of the deceased, found that he had shot himself in the side, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. The sad affair casts a shade of sorrow over this village, and the family connections have the sympathy of the community in their terrible bereavement which has devastated a household. Justice O.W. Rogers empanelled a jury, and in the absence of a coroner held the proper inquest, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the above facts.
Also - A leading farmer in the area and for 35 years known in this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was a thing unknown.
But on the 30th of March, 1880, at about 2:00 a.m, after the suicide of his nephew Ebenezer Smith Hawkins and the death of his wife, Sarah, he took his own life by shooting himself and subsequently died from his injuries.
(Long Island Surnames; 1860 US Federal Census; Ebenezer Hawkins in the U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885; South Side Signal (Babylon), Saturday, April 03, 1880, Page: 3; The corrector., April 10, 1880, Page 2)
Son of Zophar Hawkins and Eleanor Smith, he married Sarah Ann Hawkins on January 17, 1839, the daughter of Merrit Hawkins and Anna Hawkins. She was born July 21, 1815 and died November 20, 1879. Father of Hester Ann Hawkins who married Ethelbert Selleck.
In 1860, Ebenezer Hawkins, aged 44, was living in Brookhaven, NY, post office Setauket, with his wife, Sarah A. Hawkins, aged 44. Also living in the household were Hester A. Hawkins, aged 20, Ebenezer S. Hawkins, aged 23, and Thomas J. Thorne, aged 18. Ebenezer was shown to be a farmer.
Obituary - This community was once again shocked on Tuesday morning last by the sudden announcement that Ebenezer Hawkins, a leading farmer in the neighborhood, and for the past 35 years known throughout this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, had committed suicide. The deceased was one who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was apparently a thing unknown; but trouble, which is sometimes imaginary and sometimes real, finally came to the deceased. The sudden death of Ebenezer, Jr. (a nephew), which is supposed to have resulted by his own hand on the premises last fall, and the subsequent sickness and death of Mrs. Hawkins (wife of the deceased), evidently preyed deeply upon his mind, and for the past two months he had shown symptoms of mental aberration. His faculties, however, were such that he was enabled to attend to his domestic affairs, and but few suspicioned that he would commit the rash act which ended his life. At about 2 o'clock A.M. on Tuesday last, the inmates of the house were alarmed by the discharge of a gun, and proceeding to the room of the deceased, found that he had shot himself in the side, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. The sad affair casts a shade of sorrow over this village, and the family connections have the sympathy of the community in their terrible bereavement which has devastated a household. Justice O.W. Rogers empanelled a jury, and in the absence of a coroner held the proper inquest, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the above facts.
Also - A leading farmer in the area and for 35 years known in this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was a thing unknown.
But on the 30th of March, 1880, at about 2:00 a.m, after the suicide of his nephew Ebenezer Smith Hawkins and the death of his wife, Sarah, he took his own life by shooting himself and subsequently died from his injuries.
(Long Island Surnames; 1860 US Federal Census; Ebenezer Hawkins in the U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885; South Side Signal (Babylon), Saturday, April 03, 1880, Page: 3; The corrector., April 10, 1880, Page 2)
In 1860, Ebenezer Hawkins, aged 44, was living in Brookhaven, NY, post office Setauket, with his wife, Sarah A. Hawkins, aged 44. Also living in the household were Hester A. Hawkins, aged 20, Ebenezer S. Hawkins, aged 23, and Thomas J. Thorne, aged 18. Ebenezer was shown to be a farmer.
Obituary - This community was once again shocked on Tuesday morning last by the sudden announcement that Ebenezer Hawkins, a leading farmer in the neighborhood, and for the past 35 years known throughout this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, had committed suicide. The deceased was one who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was apparently a thing unknown; but trouble, which is sometimes imaginary and sometimes real, finally came to the deceased. The sudden death of Ebenezer, Jr. (a nephew), which is supposed to have resulted by his own hand on the premises last fall, and the subsequent sickness and death of Mrs. Hawkins (wife of the deceased), evidently preyed deeply upon his mind, and for the past two months he had shown symptoms of mental aberration. His faculties, however, were such that he was enabled to attend to his domestic affairs, and but few suspicioned that he would commit the rash act which ended his life. At about 2 o'clock A.M. on Tuesday last, the inmates of the house were alarmed by the discharge of a gun, and proceeding to the room of the deceased, found that he had shot himself in the side, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. The sad affair casts a shade of sorrow over this village, and the family connections have the sympathy of the community in their terrible bereavement which has devastated a household. Justice O.W. Rogers empanelled a jury, and in the absence of a coroner held the proper inquest, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the above facts.
Also - A leading farmer in the area and for 35 years known in this section of Long Island as a large dealer in poultry, who from early life had been carried onward and upward by the tide of prosperity. Early and late he was found driving business and adding to his possessions, and in such active work he evidently derived his whole enjoyment. To him adversity was a thing unknown.
But on the 30th of March, 1880, at about 2:00 a.m, after the suicide of his nephew Ebenezer Smith Hawkins and the death of his wife, Sarah, he took his own life by shooting himself and subsequently died from his injuries.
(Long Island Surnames; 1860 US Federal Census; Ebenezer Hawkins in the U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885; South Side Signal (Babylon), Saturday, April 03, 1880, Page: 3; The corrector., April 10, 1880, Page 2)
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