Ed. W. Hawkins, Sr.

Birth Date

c1815

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Newport, Kentucky, attorney. Virginia native. Father of Jane Hawkins. Married to Mary A. Munday Hawkins in Owen County on November 27, 1854. Father of Richard B. Hawkins, Elva Hawkins, Edmund W. Hawkins, Mary Hawkins, and Laura Hawkins. Attorney in Gallatin County in 1850. Mayor of Newport in 1858. Attorney in Newport in 1860. Employed Anna Heron as a domestic worker in Newport in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Newport in 1860. Presiding judge of Newport mayor's court in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 154B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 634.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 237A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Campbell County, Newport, p. 462B.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Films 994027-994058: Owen County Marriages, p. 5 of 13 (accessed through Ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, "Edmund W. Hawkins (1815-1909)," Memorial #106123793, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106123793/edmund-w.-hawkins (accessed April 17, 2017).
The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 128.
KYR-0001-029-0592.

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