DENTON COUNTY, TX - OBITUARIES  - Mrs. Rachel Robertson Hawk

Contributed by:  Kathy Wilcox    <kwilly@nbtx.com>

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                Mrs. Rachel Hawk, Pioneer Resident, Dies At Aubrey

     Funeral services for Mrs. Rachel Hawk, a pioneer settler of the Chinn 
Chapel community, who died Thursday afternoon at the home of her son, Dr. John 
M. Hawk of Aubrey, were held Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock in the First 
Christian Church of Aubrey, conducted by Rev. V.M. O'Hair and Rev. W.P. Davis.  
Six grandsons were pallbearers.  Burial was in Chinn's Chapel cemetery.
     Mrs. Hawk is survived by eight children, a daughter, Mrs. Ella Bradford of 
Denton, and seven sons, the one named with whom she had made her home the past 
year, Ed Hawk of San Antonio, Lee Hawk of Stamford and Lish, Claud, Charles and 
Carl Hawk at the home  place near Chinn Chapel.  She was a sister of Wayne 
Robertson of Frisco and of L.C. Robertson of Lubbock, Mrs. W.C. Pearson is a 
niece and she had other relatives here.  Nineteen grandchildren and several 
great-grandchildren survive.
     Mrs. Hawk was born in Arkansas in 1847 and came to Denton County with her 
father and several brothers when 14 years of age.  She had lived in the Chinn 
Chapel community 55 years.  On coming to Texas she made her home with an older 
brother, Jim Robertson, until her marriage to the late William Hawk who died in 
1915.  She was a member of the Christian Church.
     Those going to the services from here included Mr. and Mrs. William 
Pearson, Mrs. Bradford and daughter, Mrs. Maud Roberts, Homer Edwards and Mmes. 
Lawson and Bart Robertson.  Messrs and Mmes.W.J. George and A. W. Robertson of 
Frisco also attended.

Contributor's Note:  Typed from old newspaper clipping of my grandmother's, Exa 
Holmes Darnall.  She was a great niece of Rachel Hawk.  No date or newspaper 
name was written in margins.  Death was in 1933.