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Charles Comstock Hawley (Hancock County, KY, farmer and member of the Hancock County Home Guard)

b. 1805-07-12 d. 1865-04-10

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Sally Williams Hawley. Father of William Daniel Hawley, Mary Ann Hawley Hall, Julia Hawley Carder, George Hawley, Stephen Aaron Hawley, James K. Polk Hawley, and Benjamin C. Hawley. Farmer in Hancock County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860. Served in the Hancock County Home Guard as first lieutenant in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 111.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 10.

"Charles Comstock Hawley (1805-1865),"_Find A Grave, Memorial #89300672, accessed April 5, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89300672.

KYR-0002-022-0048.

Citation

Hawley, Charles Comstock. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199472 (November 12, 2026).

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