Hawkins DNA project: February 2021

Monday, February 22, 2021

Family Group #5

The following information is from a lady with whom I have chatted for quite a few years. Here is what she says about her Hawkins family:

Benjamin C.(Carter)Hawkins was born approximately 1800 in Orange County, Virginia. Parents are unknown. Family lore says his middle name was Carter and that middle name was given to descendants in the Hawkins and Hammer family. He married in 1827, in Orange County, Susan Lee, daughter of William H. Lee and Sarah Terrill of Orange County.(dna proven). The family moved sometime after 1840 to Rockingham County, Virginia and settled near McGaheysville.

Between 1850 and 1860, accordingly to family lore, he left to visit his relatives and disappeared, never to be heard from again. His wife, Susan remained in McGaheysville and died in 1873 and is buried in the OLD Peaked Mountain Cemetery.

*Uncle and I have dna tested. We show a match to Hawkins Family Group #5.

Children:

Vernangus Hawkins born 1827 maried in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1847, Henry Conrad Hammer(my ancestor)

Philip Carter Hawkins born 1831 and died 1853.

William Carter Hawkins born 1834 and died 1861 married Frances Leap, before 1858 in Rockingham County, VA

Robert Garnet Hawkins born 1836 married in Rockingham County, Virginia Lucinda F. Meadows in 1876

John Harvey Hawkins born 1840 married 1. Elizabeth A. Nestor in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1868, 2. married a 2nd time in Georgia(cannot find name of spouse)when he was very old and wife took all his money, a substantial sum. Died 1914 in Rome, Georgia.

Linda Keefer

I also have a Facebook page Hammer and Allied Families of Rockingham County, Virginia.

Linda can be reached at SiameseC@aol.com

For information about Benjamin C. Carter's move to Orange County, Virginia in the early 1700s, which Linda and I talked about in 2013 go to my main blog at:

https://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2013/02/benjamin-carter-hawkins-and-wife-susan.html

You can see the location of Rockingham County on a modern map in the illustration below. It is the square county that sits in North Carolina above Greensboro and on the Virginia State line.

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I hope that this blog will be a place for researchers who have interest in the Hawkins surname can chat and present thoughts about the particular line of Hawkins families that they look at.

Phil Hawkins maintains a wonderful website that you do not want to miss!

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/genealogy/tree_g-1.html

I think that you will find Phil’s site more organized and easier to navigate than a blog tends to be. However, use the search box on this blog to zero in on posts that are about your DNA group. I will try to label each post with the DNA group that is being discussed unless I think that it is a post that is relevant to everyone.

This blog is not meant to replace Phil's site. This blog is more like Phil's more informal newsletter where you are invited to chat about ideas you have about your Hawkins research regardless of which DNA group you match.

I also encourage you to read the archived messages on the Hawkins mail list. Better yet, you may want to subscribe if you are not already a subscriber. The Hawkins mail list is a rootsweb mail list and has the advantage that many people read the posts and that all of the posts are archived and are fully searchable. I personally have made contact with many people who have given me a great deal of help with my own Hawkins line through that mail list. I do not mean for the blog to replace the mail list either. Instead I mean for this blog to enhance the mail list as I can place photos and maps and illustrations on the blog that give more meaning to the mail list posts. Rootweb mail lists can not accept photos, maps nor illustrations.

Please send me anything that you would want to share with the world about your own Hawkins DNA group. This can include your research that you would want to share. It can include questions that you would want to ask. I will work on this little by little for the next year. Please be patient. I am just like you. I have limited time. I have great interest, but my non-genealogical life limits what I can accomplish. If we find that this format is not helpful, we'll try something else.

I welcome your input! I welcome your criticism! I welcome any editing that you can do for me! Send me your ideas, and we'll work on them together! Many of you are already my good buddies. I look forward to your help in continuing the hard work that Phil has done so far.

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