When Dessie Mabel Hawkins was born on 14 September 1899, in Palmer, Ellis, Texas, United States, her father, William Henry Hawkins, was 24 and her mother, Bessie Leona Curtis, was 17. She married Windom 'Bud' Porter before about 1923. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 7, Kaufman, Texas, United States in 1940 and Kemp, Kaufman, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 11 March 1998, in Irving, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Kemp Cemetery, Kemp, Kaufman, Texas, United States.
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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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