Chattahoochee County GaArchives Biographies.....Hawkins, Elizabeth Hortense McLester unknown - unknown
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Author: N. K. Rogers
MRS. ELIZABETH HORTENSE McLESTER HAWKINS

    This reproduction of the miniature of his bride carried by Capt. Chas. A.
Hawkins, shows the marks of a bullet made in civil war days.

    He entered the service of the Confederacy Sept. 4, 1861 at Macon where he
had graduated from Mercer University.

    While on a two weeks furlough in the fall of 1862, he married Miss McLester
who never saw him again after he rejoined his company. He fell at Winchester
June 13, 1863, but urged his men to go forward. He died the following evening.
Clippings from Macon paper (1863) contain high tribute to the character of this
chivalrous young southerner. "Miss Betty" who belonged to the highest type of
southern womanhood—a gentle refined lady, spent her life in Chattahoochee Co.


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HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.




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