When James McNeely Hawks was born on 21 January 1875, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Martin Hawks, was 23 and his mother, Mary Caroline Combs, was 18. He married Dora Melinda Leftwich on 6 April 1898, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. He lived in Pipers Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States for about 30 years and Piper Gap District, Carroll, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 23 March 1972, in Galax, Virginia, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Good Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Dunnsville, Essex, Virginia, United States.
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English (Kent and London):
variant of Hawk , with excrescent -s, a development very common in the Midlands.
variant of Hawkins , with partial ellipsis of the final syllable.
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