Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Hawkins was born on 14 December 1837, in Bath, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Hawkins, was 35 and his mother, Mary Dean, was 33. He married Sarah E. Reed on 25 July 1866, in Carroll, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 29 February 1880, in Johnson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in De Soto, Johnson, Kansas, United States.
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- G W Hawkins, "Kansas State Census, 1875"
- George Hawkins, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- George Hawkins in entry for Lula L Paul, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Johnson, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Johnson, Kansas, United States
Name Meaning
English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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