Cemetery : Hawkins Cemetery - Chestnut La, Natchitoches Parish
Read and Submitted by Danelli Weaver Faccone , October 1998
Photos are in the Natchitoches Photo Album



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HAWKINS CEMETERY
Chestnut La

Photos of the headstones are in the Natchitoches Photo Album


John and Mary K. Hawkins bought 40 acres of land near Chestnut, and settled    
on it. It has been known ever since as the Mary Hawkins place. 

They had three children: W. E. Dennis Hawkins (Mar 15, 1885/Feb 13, 1917),
Lonnie Hawkins, Bessie Hawkins, John N. Hawkins (Jan 14, 1862/Oct 22, 1900)
and Mary M. Hawkins (May 27, 1858/Jan 18, 1935). Their son, Dennis had
Bright's disease and was sick all the last part of his life. He died there at
the Mary Hawkins house, Feb 13th, 1917. He was 32 years old when he died. The
above three people are buried in a private Cemetery at the lest side of where
the old house stood. 

That piece of land, where the Cemetery is, still belongs to the Hawkins      
heirs.