Brief Life History of Barney Joseph
When Barney Joseph Hawkins was born on 18 August 1915, in Washita, Oklahoma, United States, his father, William Gibbons Hawkins, was 32 and his mother, Neoma Colwell, was 31. He lived in Oakdale Township, Washita, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years and Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States in 1960. He died on 25 May 2003, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Barney J Hawkins in household of Will G Hawkins, "United States Census, 1940"
- Barney Joseph Hawkins, "Oklahoma, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Barney J. Hawkins, "Find A Grave Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917 · The Green Corn Rebellion
A farmer’s revolt known as the Green Corn Rebellion resulted due to frustration toward landowners and local authorities. A small group of wealthy landowners obtained property by fraudulent means which forced many Oklahoma farmers into a tenancy in 1917. Many farmers joined the Working Class Union who became hostile toward county officials. Hundreds of men gathered on the farm of John Spears in Sasakwa where they planned to march to Washington to repeal the draft act and end the war. Their plan included eating green corn and beef along the way, which gave the rebellion its name. An informer alerted authorities and their effort was halted as several groups collided with the rebels, firing shots into the air. The men scattered, three were killed, over 400 were arrested, and 150 were convicted and received federal prison sentences.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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