HAWKINS, E. C., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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E. C. HAWKINS, OPELOUSAS.--E. C. Hawkins, planter, St. Landry parish,
Louisiana.  Mr. Hawkins is a native of Louisiana, born April 8, 1853.  He is
the son of Austin R. and Heloise (Dejean) Hawkins.  His father is a native of
Kentucky, and his mother of Louisiana.  His father removed to Louisiana at the
age of eighteen, and shortly afterward began a drug business; subsequently was
engaged in dry goods business in Opelousas.  At the beginning of the war he
was a major in the State militia, and helped to organize and send out
companies for Confederate service.  He was, during the war, elected a member
of the Legislature, and served to its close.  He was a cotton planter after
the war.  He died about 1874.  Our subject's paternal grandfather was a native
of Kentucky, and his maternal of France.

The subject of our sketch spent his youthful days and received his education
in Louisiana.  Having been reared on a plantation, he has chosen this as his
vocation, and now operates a large and fertile plantation near Opelousas.  He
is considered one of the most successful planters of his section.  He is a
public spirited citizen, and though he has never taken an active part in
political affairs, at the request of his friends he has filled several parish
offices with efficiency.  In 1889 he married Mrs. Lizzy Fahey, a daughter of
I. H. Kouns, who is a native of Ohio.  He (I. H. Kouns) was for many years a
steamboat captain on Red River, and now resides in Kansas.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
47-48.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.