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.