Biography of L. R. Hawkins, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

L. R. Hawkins, groceryman, of Mulberry, Ark., is a native of Franklin
County, Ark., born November 28, 1841, and is one of eight children
born to his parents, Lewis and Sarah J. (Smith) Hawkins, natives of
Tennessee and South Carolina, respectively. The parents were married
in Tennessee, and of the eight children born to their union only two
are now living: L. R., and Sarah A., widow of J. C. Jordon. Mr. and
Mrs. Hawkins came to Franklin County, Ark., in 1835, and were among
the first settlers. The father died in 1859 and the mother in 1874. He
was a farmer all his life, and this occupation his son, L. R.,
followed until 1870, when he engaged in milling, and continued at this
until three years later, when he engaged in merchandising at Pleasant
Hill. In 1879 he left this town and located in Mulberry, where he ran
a hotel for some time. He was married in 1861, May 19, to Miss Sarah
E. Jordon, daughter of William and Evalyn Jordon, a native of Franklin
County, Ark., born February 4, 1844, her parents having moved to this
county the same year of her birth. To their union have been born nine
children, three deceased: Benjamin, S. B., Robert L., Estella, Myrtie
and Anna. Those deceased were named Lula A., Clara and an infant. Mr.
Hawkins is a Republican in politics, has been mayor of Mulberry, and
he and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.