Samuel Hawk

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Hawk was born in 1794, in Virginia, United States, his father, Isaac Hawkes, was 35 and his mother, Rebecca Collins, was 34. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Eva Ann Darr. He lived in Wilkesville, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Wilkesville Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1860. He died on 8 August 1866, in Wilkesville Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Wilkesville Cemetery, Wilkesville, Vinton, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Hawk
1794–1866
Eva Ann Darr
1810–
Abraham D Hawk
1826–1912
William Hawk
1831–1913
Elizabeth A Hawk
1831–1911
John Adam Hawk
1835–1922

Sources (5)

  • Samuel Hawk, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Hawk - birth: 1790; Hampshire, Virginia, United States
  • Samel Hawk in entry for William Hawk, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1810

Wilkesville Township was organized June 1810 in Gallia County, Ohio. [Note: Wikipedia erroneously has 1815]

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English havoc, havek, hauk ‘hawk or falcon’ (Old English hafoc). It may have been given to a professional falconer, to someone of a savage or cruel disposition, or to someone who held land by providing hawks for his lord, as in an instance from 1130, where Ralph Hauoc owed the royal Exchequer two ‘girfals’ (i.e. gyrfalcons or hawks).

English: topographic name for a ‘(dweller in) the nook or corner’, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc).

English: possibly also a survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name Hafoc, which was originally a nickname from the word ‘hawk, falcon’. It seems to have died out of use as a personal name by c. 1250.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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