Strother Moses "Stroud" Hawkins, Sr.

Strother Moses Hawkins
BIRTH
16 Apr 1809
Virginia, USA
DEATH
1884 (aged 74–75)
Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, USA
BURIAL
Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: Bonham, Fannin County, Texas

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Strother Moses Hawkins was the son of JOSEPH (III) HAWKINS and Margaret Peggy Bird.

He was first married to: Francis Lucinda Reno on 20 Dec 1832 at Marion County, Palymra, Mo.

Their children were:

Mary Francis Hawkins, James S. Hawkins, James William Hawkins, Hulda Elizabeth Hawkins, Joseph H. Hawkins, Strother Moses Hawkins, Jr., Elizabeth Jane Hawkins, Samuel Hawkins

2nd- Strother Hawkins also married Louisa Steed on 20 Jan 1855 in Fannin County, Texas.

3rd- Strother Hawkins married Frances Jane McGrady on 17 Dec 1857 in Fannin County, Texas.

Their children were: Laura Jane Hawkins, Newton Eldridge Hawkins, Sarah Ashley Hawkins, Randolph Hawkins

4th- Strother Hawkins married: Catherine Hall

Their children were: Ford Hawkins, Mildred Hawkins, Evelyn Hawkins

IVANHOE, TEXAS. Ivanhoe is ten miles north of Bonham in north central Fannin County. W. A. Carter's History of Fannin County, Texas (1885) reports that one could reach Ivanhoe by way of Island Bayou Road.

The town was originally named Hawkins' Prairie after Strother Hawkins, a pioneer who settled there in 1845. In 1885 Capt. Joe Dupree, a Confederate veteran, named the town Ivanhoe after Sir Walter Scott's novel, when the United States Postal Service rejected the original name. The Baptist church was organized there in 1872. In the mid-1880s the community had two general stores, a blacksmith shop, a steam mill and cotton gin, a hotel, a physician, and a school. Stage connections to Bonham could be made regularly from Ivanhoe. In the 1880s 150 residents lived in Ivanhoe. The population climbed to about 200 in the 1890s but dropped by 1915 to only seventy-five. The population was around 100 in the 1960s, when the Ivanhoe school district was consolidated with the schools of Telephone to form the Sam Rayburn Independent School District. Ivanhoe is the home of the Ivanhoe Winery, an award-winning enterprise. In 1990 the population was 110.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. A. Carter, History of Fannin County, Texas (Bonham, Texas: Bonham News, 1885; rpt., Honey Grove, Texas: Fannin County Historical Society, 1975). Floy Crandall Hodge, A History of Fannin County (Hereford, Texas: Pioneer, 1966).

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Life Sketch

Strother Moses Hawkins was the son of JOSEPH (III) HAWKINS and Margaret Peggy Bird.

First Marriage: Francis Lucinda Reno on 20 Dec 1832 at Marion County, Palymra, Mo. Their children were:

Mary Francis Hawkins James S. Hawkins James William Hawkins Hulda Elizabeth Hawkins Joseph H. Hawkins Strother Moses Hawkins, Jr. Elizabeth Jane Hawkins Samuel Hawkins

Second Marriage: Louisa Steed on 20 Jan 1855 in Fannin County, TExas.

Third Marriage: Frances Jane McGrady on 17 Dec 1857 in Fannin County, TExas. Their children were: Laura Jane Hawkins Newton Eldridge Hawkins Sarah Ashley Hawkins Randolph Hawkins

Fourth Marriage: Catherine Hall Their children were: Ford Hawkins Mildred Hawkins Evelyn Hawkins

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From: https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Strother-Moses-Hawkins-Sr/f13...

Cousin Mary Ann Colvert, says Strother said "he would not raise a sword against the Country his fore fathers had fought for". However, Strother,it seems, had retired to Missouri before the war had begun.
S.M. Hawkins is on the 1846 Republic of Texas Poll Tax List in Fannin County along with his brother A.B. Hawkins. This list was compiled in 1845 before the Republic was admitted to the Union and is a basis for John Philip Adams to be listed as a Son of the Republic of Texas.! He received a grant of 360 acres from the Republic of Texas. He or his heirs took possession of the property in Coryell, County about 1876. Strother was still alive at this time, we believe. An Ussery family member also received a grant about the same time in Coryell County for John A. Ussery's service to the Republic of Texas. Coincidence? Margaret H. Pearson Adams, my mother, says he died in Greenville, Hunt Co., Texas about 1884, at the home of one his sons. However there is not a firm record of his death or a will record in Greenville, Hunt Co., Tx. There is not a listing for an S.M. or A.B. Hawkins in the 1860 Texas Census, but there is a listing for both in the Palmyra, Marion Co., Missouri U.S. Census. Vol. 2 Northern Division. His Father's Joseph Hawkins, III will List him as Moses.

GEDCOM Source

M6DY-X75 Strother M. Hawkins, "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973" "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2MH-F9G : 11 February 2018), Strother M. Hawkins and Louise Steed, 19 Jan 1855; citing , Fannin, Texas, , reference ; FHL microfilm 1,293,838. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2MH-F9G This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.