Biographical Sketch of Perry D. Hawkins, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Perry D. Hawkins, junior member of the firm of Marshall & Co., at New-
burg, Mo., was born in Phelps County, Mo., January 11, 1854, being the
son of Robert P. and Rhoda (Bryant) Hawkins.  Robert P. Hawkins, who 
was born in Georgia, was the third son of Solomon Hawkins and Sophronia
Isabel (Duncan) Hawkins.  Solomon Hawkins was born October 23, 1798, in
Greenville District, South Carolina; was reared upon a farm, securing a
limited education, and married, December 18, 1821, Sophronia Isabel
Duncan.  In 1826 he removed from South Carolina to the State of Georgia
remaining there four years, and then came to Missouri in the winter of
1831, and opened a farm on the Gasconade River, near the mouth of 
Little Piney.  In the year 1836 he moved to and opened a farm on Cave
Spring Creek, where he lived the remainder of his days.  He was noted
for sobriety and industry, and filled several offices in the county in
which he lived with honor to himself and credit to the county. He lived
in four counties without moving from the old homestead: Crawford, 
Maries, Pulaski and Phelps.  He died January 30, 1867.  His wife, Soph-
ronia I. Hawkins, is still living with her daughter, Eliza L. Woody, of
Miller County, Mo., and is quite smart for her age, which is eighty-
five years.  They reared a family of five girls and seven boys: William
J., James P., Robert P., Alfred, Perry Eaton (the only son now living),
Melissa Susanna, Mary M., Eliza Louisa (the two last named the only
surviving daughters), John B., Amanda M., Permelia Elizabeth, and an
infant son.  Robert P., the third son, was born in Georgia, coming to 
Missouri with his father when a small boy, in the year 1831. He settled
near Arlington, and was there engaged in farming, and during the late
war was in the State Militia.  He was also justice of the peace in his
township.  He was married March 27, 1850, to Rhoda Bryant.  By this
marriage there were four children, three of whom are living: Perry 
David, John P. and Rhoda J. (who married Daniel Fulbright).  Rhoda 
Bryant, his wife, died January 28, 1858.  Robert P. Hawkins' second 
marriage was July 15, 1860, to Margaret E. Young.  By this marriage he 
had four sons, only one of them now living, Ivy Wilbert.  Mrs. Margaret
(Young) Hawkins died in November, 1870.  Mr. R. P. Hawkins died on
December 3, 1871.  Perry D. Hawkins was reared principally on the farm
near Arlington, attending school at Arlington and Richmond, and the
School of Mines at Rolla, Mo.  He remained on the homestead until 
twenty-six years of age, being engaged in farming, and went from there
to Arlington, and clerked in the store of A. M. Murphy for one year,
after which he bought out the stock and continued at this one and a
half years.  In May, 1884, he came to Newburg, where he has since been
engaged in general merchandising.  Mr. Hawkins was married October 4,
1883, to Miss Lizzie Marshall.  She is a daughter of Rev. George 
Marshall, who was born in Ireland in 1831, and came to this country 
when a boy, receiving his education at Union College, New York, and
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, from which he graduated,
and was licensed to preach at Albany, N. Y.  He was ordained and 
installed pastor of the Presbyterian Rock church, at Fair Hill, Cecil
County, Md., May 13, 1856, and continued in charge of this church until
his death, February 27, 1861.  His wife, Isabel Campbell, was also a 
native of Ireland.  To their union were born four children; two of them
died when young, Willie and Georgina.  His wife, Isabel (Campbell)
Marshall, died in 1864, and the remaining two children, Lizzie and
Carrie, came to Missouri with their uncle and aunt, who took charge of
them after their parents' death.  Carrie married Charles Wood, and 
Lizzie P. married Dr. Hawkins.  Mrs. Hawkins was born in Fair Hill,
Cecil County, Md., came to Missouri when quite young, and was reared
principally in that State.  She attended the public schools in Phelps
County, also in Mount Vernon, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo.  She is a member
of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Hawkins is a member of the A.O.U.W.,
of the Masonic fraternity, and is the owner of a farm besides his 
mercantile business.  He is politically a Democrat.

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