Percival "Pierce" Butler Hawkins

Birth Date

1817-11-17

Death Date

1893-03-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bowling Green, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and politician. Spotsylvania County, Virginia, native. Married to Jane Frances Hall Hawkins in Warren County, Kentucky, on December 9, 1841. Father of A. E. Hawkins, Mary Bell Hawkins, Jane F. Hawkins, Nannie M. Hawkins, and Joseph Hawkins. Attorney in Warren County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Warren County in 1850. Teacher in Warren County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as s colonel from November 11, 1861 to June 25, 1863. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Warren County from 1863 to 1865. Commissioner of the Board of Enrollment of the 3rd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from July 27, 1863 to November 12, 1863 and from March 28, 1864 to August 22, 1864. Commissioned colonel of the 1st Regiment Capital Guards on July 11, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 23B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 466.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 603.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 448A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 71B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film 000164005, p. 293.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film 000339890, p. 48.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 925.
"Percival Butler “Pierce” Hawkins (1817-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial 113160280, accessed September 6, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113160280.
Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 165.

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