Biography, James M Hawkins, Madison County, AR

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JAMES M. HAWKINS, SR., was born in White County, Tenn., January 1, 1813, and is
a son of WILLIAM and REBECCA (DILLON) HAWKINS. The father was born in North
Carolina, and when a young man went to Tennessee, married and engaged in
farming. He afterward lived in McMinn County. He passed one year in Kentucky,
and came to Madison County about 1830, settling upon the farm now owned by L. W.
ROUTH. He then lived in Carroll and Franklin Counties, and in 1838 built a mill
in Madison County, which he sold three years later. He subsequently built a mill
in Carroll County, and died there in 1850. The mother died about seven years
before her husband. Of their large family of children but BENJAMIN and our
subject are living. James M. spent his early life upon the farm, and after his
marriage continued farm life also running the Hawkins Mill over thirty years.
From about 1840 until the opening of the war he was engaged in the distillery
business. He still owns the Hawkins Mill, and has about 300 acres of fine valley
land three miles east of Huntsville. April 8, 1838, he married MARY McMURRAY,
who was born in Warren County, Tenn., December 25, 1820, and accompanied her
parents here prior to 1830. Her children were named as follows: FELIX G.
(deceased), JOSEPH (deceased), MARY (deceased), GEORGE W., JOHN C., ALBERT,
JAMES M., WILLIAM, THOMAS, REBECCA, and MATILDA. Mrs. Hawkins died, a member of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, June 13, 1883. Mr. Hawkins is a Democrat,
and during the war lost considerable property, but is now well-to-do, and
besides his other property owns a two-thirds interest in a water-mill with his
son. He is a Master Mason. " (Goodspeeds History of NW AR...)