When Harriet D. Hawkins was born on 21 November 1852, in Lincoln, Addison, Vermont, United States, her father, Ariel Hawkins, was 31 and her mother, Doty Green, was 36. She married Edmund Alonzo Whittier on 20 December 1874, in Starksboro, Addison, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 27 March 1922, in Cherry, Douglas, Colorado, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Castle Rock, Douglas, Colorado, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN MEMORIAL: Sgt Joshua Dyer VVETERAN BIRTH 8 Oct 1834 Fulton County, Illinois, USA DEATH 29 Mar 1865 (aged 30) North Carolina, USA BURIAL Cedar Hill Cemetery Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado, USA Show MapGPS-Latitude: 39.3798109, Longitude: -104.8724246 PLOT Section 3 MEMORIAL ID 18932185
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Douglas, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Douglas, Colorado, United States
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 .
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