Horace Hawkins's obituary, Vermontville, Eaton County, Michigan
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SUBJECT: Horace HAWKINS
SUBMITTER: Jan Lubitz Sedore
EMAIL: am0773@a1access.net
DATE: Apr 17, 1999
SURNAMES: HAWKINS, SPRAGUE, COLE, KENWORTHY
THE VERMONTVILLE ECHO
Wednesday, January 14, 1903, Page 8
OBITUARY: HORACE HAWKINS

Horace Hawkins was born May 6th, 1832, in the town of Castleton, Vermont,
he being the oldest of the three sons of Jay and Lodi Hawkins. With his
parents in the year 1836 he came to Vermontville with the old Vermont colony
first settling on what is now known as the Dr. Parmenter place. In 1857,
he was married to Betsey P. Sprague, daughter of Levi C. and Cornelia Cole
Sprague and settled on the farm where he lived at the time of his death.
In the early days he with the other members of the Vermont colony suffered
many hardships and privations and is was one of his pleasures to relate
to his family and friends the experiences of the early days of those sturdy
settlers. The farm on which he lived was one of the best in the county,
it being brought to a high state of cultivation from the wilderness. Always
having been sick more or less he was never strong and during the last few
years of his life he was troubled with valular heart trouble which was
the cause of his death. For a number of years he had been a devout Christian,
having united with the Free Methodist church twenty-four years ago and
was a liberal giver not only to this church, but to the causes of Christianity
as well. In politics he was an ardent prohibitionist and always worked
for the cause at every opportunity. Death came to relieve his sufferings
on December 20th, being 70 years, 7 months and 14 days old at that time.
He is survived by is wife and seven children, all of whom but one were
present at the time of death he not arriving till a few hours afterward.
The children are Horace W. of Oklahoma, Harvey L., Jay, Joseph H., Grant,
Sylvia L. Hawkins and Mrs Cornelia Kenworthy all of whom are well known
in this portion of the country. The funeral services were held at the home,
conducted by Rev. G. W. Carey on December 24th, the sermon being from the
test, "If a man die shall he live again". The interment took
place in Woodlawn cemetery.