Name: Gregory Farmer HAWKINS
Sex: M
Birth: 26 MAR 1789 in Greenbrier, Virginia or, Bath, Kentucky
Death: 15 DEC 1859 in Canton, Lewis, Missouri
Burial: Wyaconda Cemetery, West of Canton, Lewis, Missouri
Reference Number: Taf:962+14>2231.6
Note:
!BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-MARRIAGE: Information acquired from Glenda Hawkins Meister via E-Mail [email protected] dated 19 Sep 2000


!BIOGRAPHY: Supplied by Glenda Hawkins as mentioned above. Received: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2000.


(Original of this history in possession of Mrs. Roger Williams of Cameron, Missouri 1957.
And copy given to Helen (Thompson) Andrews by Irene (Shanks) McCarron, March 1967.)


This is copied from the family history of Sarah Hawkins Bayne, written by her in 1939 at the age of 77.
She lived to be 96 years of age.


Sarah Hawkins Bayne is the daughter of John Henry Bayne - May 8, 1812 to April 11, 1866 and Unicy Anne Hawkins - June 16, 1822 to December 28, 1902.


HAWKINS
John Hawkins was born in London, England ..March 22, 1640 and came to America in 1652 with his parents and brothers, Thomas and William. He lived on the James River in Virginia until he was 21. At the age of 21, he married Elizabeth Farmer (born in Bristol, England, September 15, 1643) who had come with her parents to America in 1656.
The names John, Thomas and Gregory Farmer occur most frequently in the subsequent family records. They were all patriots and were staunch adherents of the Episcopal Church.
My great grandfather, Thomas Hawkins was born January 20, 1760. He married Mary Hargis Steele (widow), and my grandfather, Gregory Farmer Hawkins, their eldest son, was born March 26, 1789 and died December 15, 1859.
*He, Gregory Farmer Hawkins married Sarah Cannon (born February 4, 1795) on January 15, 1815. They lived near Greenbrier, Virginia, but afterwards moved to Bath County, Kentucky, where the first 8 children were born. They had 11 in all, my mother as the fourth.
In 1829, my grandparents and family along with their slaves went to Maysville, Kentucky, took a boat on the Ohio River. At Cairo, Illinois they re-embarked and ascended the Mississippi River as far as Hannibal, Missouri. From there they went by land to Canton, Missouri located near the Mississippi River, arriving on the day on which the first town lots were sold.
My grandfather was a farmer and also had a mill. he became a judge, but of what rank I am unable to say. My mother had a great admiration for her father and both were inveterate readers. All my grandparents died before I was born, except my grandmother Hawkins, of whom I stood in awe.
My widowed grandmother continued to live at the home place, served by 2 of the ex-slaves who stayed with her until her death in April 1872.
The Episcopal tradition was broken in my grandfather's time, though it was his preference. My grandmother's father was a very strong Baptist and she could not see her way clear to becoming a member of a church with so much ritual. Finally, they compromised on the Methodist Episcopal and were charter members of that faith established in Canton, Missouri. She was my present age when she died - 77. She wore lace caps, and being rheumatic, walked with a cane. If she could "revisit the glimpses of the moon", I wonder what she would think of the doings of her twentieth century granddaughter.
The Hawkins in Virginia were pretty numerous and as I previously said, were patriotic. Captain Reuben Hawkins was in the Va. Millitia....Captain Moses Hawkins was serving in the Revolution 1777, so also was Samuel Hawkins. And Captain John Hawkins was in th 3rd Regiment of the Continental Army.


!NOTE: Caroline Hawkins Vowell at E-mail: [email protected] may be contacted regarding Gregory Farmer Hawkins. Information regarding this family was supplied originally by Caroline to Glenda. Per a Postem note Dated: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:14:43 -0600 to WorldConnect.
Change Date: 1 MAY 2009 at 18:26:49 1
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You have listed that Gregory was born in either Greenbrier, VA or Bath County, KY, but he could not have been born in KY. KY did not become a state until 1792 and at the time he was born, if it was in what is now Bath County, KY it would have been either Bourbon County or Fayette County, Virginia, now Bath County, KY (the area was Clark County, KY in 1792-1796, Montgomery County, KY in 1796-1811). Gregory married Sally Cannon in Bath County in 1815. - Susan Reynolds