Obituaries:Samuel Hawley - Revolutioner War Soldier
Submitter: Pauline Mobley  Dec 2000
Source: Vicksburg Register, Vicksburg, Miss.



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(See footnotes*)


Samuel Hawley  

Another Revolutionary Soldier is no more--Died at the upper settle-
ment on Bayou Macon in the parish of Carrol, State of Louisiana, on
the 4th day of June 1835, Samuel Hawley, aged about 80 years, a 
native of the State of Massachusetts, and once a soldier of the 
Revolutionary army.

Great Spirt-how  far removed from the former fields of his glory 
afar renown!--how calmly, how sweetly, and how humbly--in the 
bosom of his own dear country, honored and held--revered by
generations of youth, clinging with "eagle talcons to their 
liberties, to them secured by their patriarch and his patriot
grandsires!

Mr. Hawley was a pensioner and lived for several years back thus
secluded and remote with his child and respected by all who knew
him:
   "For he had been a soldier in his youth,
    And fought in many battles;"
He had marched to
   "The spirt-stirring drum, the earpiercing fife,"
and Liberty's banner had triumphantly waved over his youthful head-
and it still waves amoung the green giant tres that stand like solitary mourners round.
   " His monument--a country's love"

*Pension record is under Military

Personal research shows Samuel had a daughter, Nancy, who married in
New York around 1806 to Daniel R. Stark, born in New York around 1787.
No tombstone has been found, but at the time of his death he was
living with his grandson, William Hawley Stark and was most likely
buried on his land.  The family later moved to Newton County, Texas.