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Dedicated to the genealogy of direct descendents of James W. Hawkins (ca. 1800 - aft. 1870) and his wife Mary P. Thornberg (ca. 1806 - aft. 1870) of North Carolina. They lived in Lincoln County from ca. 1829 through the late 1840s then moved to Mecklenburg County by 1850. They lived in the Steele Creek area leading up to the Civil War.
Exact Y-DNA matches with proven descendants of Robert Hawkins, died 1761 in Baltimore County, Maryland, make it probable that our Hawkins descend from him. His daughter, Ann Hawkins Renshaw, and youngest son William Hawkins (1725 in MD -1764 in NC) emigrated to the piedmont of North Carolina about 1763. Our James W. Hawkins may be the son of William's son Ephraim Hawkins, (1761 in MD - 1836 in NC).
Three sons of James Hawkins and Mary Thornberg, Joseph P. Hawkins, Fields A. Hawkins, and James F. Hawkins, served in the Ranalsburg Riflemen, Company B of the 13th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Joseph served 1861-1865, Fields from 1861-1862 (wounded at Antietam), James from 1863-1865. Joseph and James were musicians in the regimental band.
Among the battles they fought in: Seven Days, Gaines Mills, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Falling Water, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg Siege, Appomattox Court House.
Following the war they returned to Mecklenburg County and the family lived in the Long Creek Township and nearby areas for most of the next 50 years. The line from which I am descended left NC around 1928 for Chicago and ended up on the West Coast during Hollywood's heyday in the late 1930s. For more information, take a look around this webpage and the links below. If you think you're related, please get in touch via email, leave a message in the Guestbook below, or call me.
Related names: SIMPSON, AUTEN, THORNBERG, WENTZ, TODD, BLYTHE, ...
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