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William Franklin Hawes, Sr. (Hancock County farmer and captain of the Hancock County Home Guard)

b. 1819-04-28 d. 1889-12-07

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and coal baron. Kentucky native. Married to Aurelia C. Hawes. Father of William F. Hawes, Jr., Aurelia Hawes, Ann Hawes, Amelia Hawes, Ed Hawes, and Sue Hawes. Incorporated the Hawes Coal and Manufacturing Company in Hancock County in 1854. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Owned twenty-three enslaved persons in 1860. Captain in the Hancock County Home Guards in 1861. Captain in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) in 1861 and 1862. Major and assistant quartermaster under J. M. Hawes's Command from June 1862 to May 1865.

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Bibliography

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M331, Roll 0122.

"An Act to Incorporate the Hawes Coal Company, in Hancock County" Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1854), 283-286.

"The Hawesville Coal Mines," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), September 20, 1854. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 35.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 2.

Find A Grave, "Major William Franklin Hawes (April 28, 1819-December 7, 1889)," Memorial #75612019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75612019 (accessed March 30, 2017).

Citation

Hawes, William Franklin, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201235 (November 12, 2026).

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