Biographical Sketch of Augustus Hawkins, Washington County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Augustus Hawkins is a son of John Hawkins, a Revolutionary soldier, who
was a native of Buncombe County, N. C., and when about sixteen years of
age entered the army as a substitute under Gen. Washington, in which
capacity he served two years, and then re-enlisted as his own represen-
tative, leaving the priceless inheritance to his children of being one
of the purchasers of the freedom of this "glorious land." He located in
Washington County, Mo., about 1790.  He married Rebecca Kester; and to
them were born the following children, viz.: Ruth, Elizabeth, Susan,
Joseph, John, Austin H., Sophia, William, James, Nancy and Augustus. 
The mother died in 1830, and the father in 1840.  Augusts, the youngest
of the family, was born May 31, 1818; he was reared in Washington Co.,
in which county he has followed the occupation of farming all his life,
owning a good farm of 375 acres.  He married Miss Elizabeth Pinson in
1841; she was born in Washington County in 1820.  To their union were
born thirteen children, of whom nine are living, viz.: Rebecca (now Mrs.
Solomon B. Strong), Jane (the wife of F. E. McGready), Newton, Emily,
Milton, Margaret (now Mrs. Z. F. Higginbotham), Iris, Mary (wife of
Francis Long), and Elsine.  Although a Union man Mr. Hawkins suffered
severly during the war by those at whose hands he had a right to better
treatment.  As one of the oldest settlers and most enterprising farmers
of Washington County, he commands the respect and esteem of a host of
friends and acquaintances.

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