Census Sunday: William M Whiteside Family 1910

Lots of information about a family can be verified or discovered by looking at the census document.
In 1910, William M and Hattie Davis Whiteside were living in Niantic Township. William was older than Hattie and she had seven children, all of whom were living. Six children were still living at home and their ages are listed. (Their eldest daughter, Bernie, was already married.) William is a farmer who was born in Illinois and rents his farm.  He is 44 and Hattie is 39. They've been married 21 years (that makes 1889 the year of their marriage, so records can be found.)  Hattie would have been 18.   Their neighbors are listed, too.  The next thing to do is look at 1920! 

Probate #560, 4 September 1864.

William M Whiteside, Petition of N. G. Averitt for Letters of Administration. 
William M. Whiteside died on or about 4 September 1864.

The Petition shows that his real and personal estate consisted chiefly of money and notes being worth about Two Thousand dollars.  Surviving him are his children: Nancy J Bush, Sarah Scott, S. W. Whiteside, A. W. Whiteside, Elvira Allinson, Eliza Whiteside, Lenora Whiteside and William Whiteside.

Samuel Whiteside an Old Pioneer

Decatur Review, Decatur, Illinois, June 30, 1929

Samuel Whiteside came to Macon County, Illinois, at the age of 16, about 1856. He raised and sold horses between Niantic and Belleville, Illinois. He was a member of Berea Christian Church, Mosquito Township, Christian Co., Illinois, in 1914.

Obituary- Decatur Review March 28, 1931 - Page 10
Samuel W. Whiteside

Samuel W. Whiteside, formerly of East St. Louis, died at 3 o'clock Saturday morning at the home of his son, W.M. Whiteside, rural route 1, south of Niantic.
He was ninety -two years old in February. He had been in failing health for the last year, but until a few months ago was able to be up and around. His death was due to complications incident to old age.
Mr. Whiteside was born near East St. Louis February 22, 1839. For the last three years he has been making his home with his son near Niantic. He was a member of the Long Point Christian Church. He is survived by three children, W.M. Whiteside and Mrs. Nora Jane Dodson, Niantic, and Mrs. Emma Blankenship, Moweaqua. There are thirteen grandchildren. The body was taken to the Moran & Sons funeral home, where friends may call after 5 o'clock Saturday evening.
The funeral will be held at 1 :30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Long Point Church, conducted by Rev. H. H. Jenner of Niantic. The burial will be in the Long Point cemetery.

 

Probate #8367  in Macon County, Illinois shows heirs of Samuel W Whiteside to be his son, William M Whiteside, his daughters Nora Dotson and Emma Blankinship.  John B. Faris was the executor of the estate. Samuel W Whiteside died on the 28th of March, 1931.

 

William Modrel Whiteside was born 3 December 1866 and died 2 August 1940. This is a listing of his heirs from Probate No. 10569 which was processed in Macon County, Illinois.  He was the son of Samuel William Whiteside (1839-1931) and Elizabeth Lewis..

 

 

Marriage Record for John Lewis and Harriet Little

Jacob Lewis and Harriet Little Lewis - parents of Elizabeth Lewis Whiteside

Jacob Lewis was born in Macon county, Illinois.
He was married on the 21st of October in 1841 to Jane Cochran in St. Louis, Missouri. They lived in St. Clair County, Illinois until about 1860.

Jacob and Jane had the following children:
Elizabeth (b. 1843), John, Sarah, Catherine, Mary (b. 1848 m.Wm. Hignight, d. 1927), Jacob Jr., Malinda, Samuel, William, Charles, James, Cintha and Winnette (b. 1867)

His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel W. Whiteside in 1860 in Macon county, Illinois. His wife, Jane, died in 1868 in Macon County, Illinois.

Jacob married Harriet Little in St. Louis, Missouri, on 11 Oct. 1870. They lived in Turnback, Lawrence, Missouri, in 1880. One child, Charles was born in 1881 and later lived in Macon County, Illinois in the home of his sister, Elizabeth.

George William Hawk 1810-1846

George “William” Hawk

Birth: 21 June 1810
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 3 July 1846
Harristown
Macon County
Illinois, USA

David Hawk and his son, George William, came from the part of Pennsylvania where the Conestoga wagons were built in Lancaster County to Niantic, Illinois in 1842 at age 32. They are listed on the 1840 census, in separate households. David died not long after they came to Illinois, in 1844, and was buried on the old Jacobs place in Macon County. George's mother, whose name is unknown, is supposed to have died in Pennsylvania before 1842. They settled south of Niantic, Illinois.

1. GEORGE WILLIAM HAWK was born on 21 Jun 1810 in Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 03 Jul 1846 in
Macon, Illinois, USA. He married REBECCA PENELOPE TEMPLIN on 23 Feb 1833 in Fayette, Ohio,
USA, daughter of Isaac Templin and Rebecca Stoker. She was born on 15 Nov 1812 in Fayette,
Ohio, USA. She died on 26 Sep 1886 in Macon, Illinois, USA.

George Hawk, known as Bill, is listed as a founding member of Macon County in the History of
Macon County. George's mother, whose name is unknown, is supposed to have died in Pennsylvania before 1842.
George William Hawk and Rebecca Penelope Templin had the following children:

i. REBECCA J HAWK was born on 18 Apr 1835 in Ohio, USA. She died on 03 Jul 1911
in Missouri, USA. She married Hugh. James WOODS. He was born in Missouri, and died there.

2. ii. JOHN ARMSTRONG HAWK was born on 10 Mar 1837 in Fayette, Ohio, USA. He died on 18 Dec 1910 in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, USA. He married SARAH ELLEN FARIS on 26 Feb 1863 in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, USA, daughter of Eli Shelby Faris and Lucilla Pulliam. She was born on 18 Jul 1845 in New Market, Highland, Ohio, USA.
She died on 19 Jun 1923 in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, USA.

3. iii. ADEN CLEVENGER HAWK was born on 19 Aug 1839 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, USA. He died on 01 Nov 1918 in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, USA. He married
AMY CATHERINE CASS BLANKINSHIP on 06 Nov 1862 in Macon, Illinois, USA,daughter of Joseph T. Blankinship and Amy R. Ridgway. She was born on 20 June 1842 in Ohio, USA. She died on 13 Apr 1928 in Harristown, Macon, Illinois, USA.

4. iv. JAMES MADISON HAWK was born on 28 Nov 1841. He died on 28 Dec 1930 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA. He married LAURA O FOSTER on 24 Mar 1887 in Macon County Illinois, USA (second marriage for Laura), daughter of
Robert Foster and Mary Ann Barnett. She was born on 02 Mar 1853 in Illinois, USA. She died on 12 Feb 1922 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA. James is buried at Camp Butler in Springfield.

v. GEORGE WILLIAM HAWK II was born in 1844 in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, USA. He died on 11 Oct 1864 in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, USA.

After G. W.'s death, his widow, "Nellie"(Rebecca Penelope) married Nathan Averitt and they had a child: Laura Averitt, b.29 May 1854, Niantic, Macon, IL.

Obituary - Nellie Hawk Averitt

PENELOPE TEMPLIN HAWK AVERITT

SEPTEMBER 26, 1886

Mrs. Penlope Averitt was born in Fayette County, Ohio, November 15th, 1813. She was the daughter of Isaac Templin, one of the early settlers of that state and a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church. She was married at the age of eighteen to William Hawk, with whom she emigrated to Macon County when Decatur was a village, and when no railroad was in the county, settling in Niantic township. Death deprived her of her husband in 1848, and in 1852 she was married to Elder Nathan G. Averitt, of the Christian church, with whom she lived till March 6, 1867, when she was again left a widow.

In 1846 under the ministration of Elder Watt. Bowels, of the Christian church, she became a member of that denomination, and has remained a zealous member ever since, embracing a period of forty years.

Her death occurred in Niantic, Illinois, September 26, 1886, at the age of seventy-three years. The funeral services were held in the Christian Church at Niantic, September 27, Rev. A. C. Foster officiating, and the remains were laid to rest in Long Point Cemetery.

Mrs. Averitt has resided in Niantic for eighteen years where she was known by every one. She leaves three sons and one daughter, residents of the township, and a daughter living in Iowa, to mourn her death.

The Review, Decatur, IL October 6, 1886

Note:

The sons were: John Armstrong, Aden Clevenger and James Madison.

The daughters were: Laura Averitt Hall and Rebecca Hawk Woods.

Aden Hawk Family

about 1910

Left to right:  John I, Amy C "Kate" Blankinship, Aden C Hawk

Amy P "Nellie" Hawk Lawton, Leroy C Hawk, Aliff J Hawk Carr

Missing: James Edward Hawk who died in the spring of 1899.

Averitt and Hawk Reunion 1905

Decatur Herald, Decatur, Illinois, 3 October 1905

Averitt and Hawk Reunion

 

“At Niantic a reunion of the Averitt and Hawk families took place Thursday at the J. M. (James M.) Hawk residence, formerly the home of Mrs. Penelope (Nellie) Hawk Averitt.

The families of A. C. (Aden Clevenger) and Armstrong (John Armstrong) Hawk, C. A. Hill, T. H. Claypool, M. E. Lockhart, Wm. Lawton, Clarence Whaley, Howard Carr, Aaron Ford, J. G. Willard, Elmore Averitt, Mrs. E. B. Chamberlain, and James Chamberlain are the representatives here at Illiopolis and Decatur. Mrs. Mark Camp, Mrs. Ella Averitt, of Harristown, A. D. Averitt of Willow Springs, Mo, is a brother. Frank Averitt and wife of Decatur, must not be forgotten. Mrs. Walter Pritchett, now in Colorado and Mrs. Arthur Pritchett are entitled to be named as well as Walter Averitt and wife of Lanesville.

The program included an experience meeting and the entire affair was in honor of Mrs. Rebecca Woods, a sister from Alexandria, Mo.

After an address of welcome from the host and hostess had been read by Mrs. Alice Gilcrest, a fine dinner was served. Owing to illness, neither Mrs. Willard nor Mrs. Chamberlain could be present. The guests were Mrs. R. J. Woods, Alexandria, Mo; Mrs. Rebecca Ford and daughters, Mrs. Minnie Garvey and Miss Gertrude Ford, also little Marjorie Garvey and Mrs. G. A. Drum and son Donald, of Illiopolis; Mrs. Nancy Hobbs, Mrs. Alice Gilcrest, Armstrong and Aden Hawk, C. A. Hall, Elmore Averitt, Wm. Lawton, Clinton Higgins and their wives, Mrs. Aliff Carr and daughter Nancy. Mrs. Minnie Whaley and children, Mrs. Mary Kitch and daughter Sophia, Mrs. Mary and Mrs. Alice Claypool, Mrs. Maria Mansfield and Russell Hall.

The old stage coach was told of by Mrs. Woods, who with her parents and brothers were among the first settlers in the township. Their old home land is now owned by N.A. Mansfield. Soft soap was told of by Mrs. Ford. The ox wagon was also discussed by Mrs. Hobbs, who gave a graphic account of how old “Buck” and “Berry” ran away one time. Other times were ably discussed and the occasion was one long to be remembered by everyone present."

Notes:

1.Nellie Hawk was the widow of George William Hawk. After he died, she married Nathan G. Averitt and had a daughter, Laura Averitt who married Charles Hall.

2.Rebecca Hawk Woods was a sister to AC, James, Nellie and Armstrong Hawk and half-sister to Laura Averitt.

Children of John I. and Eda M. Sanders Hawk

Their only son, Virgel Aden, married Leva Ann Whiteside, the daughter of William Modrel Whiteside and Hattie Myrtle Davis Whiteside on March 12, 1918. They had four sons: John W., Virgel, Jr., Roland "Rod" and Garry.

Leva and Virgel in 1918






Thelma married Don Carl Williams, the son of Adelbert and Corene (Widick) Williams, on the 11th of June in 1925 in Illiopolis, Illinois. She graduated from the Illinois State Normal Teachers College in Bloomington, then taught at Bend School in Macon County, Illinois. After a few years, Thelma got a position in the Elgin School District where she taught 5th grade for many years. They had one son, Carl Winston in March of 1927.

Mildred remained single, but moved to the Chicago area where she became a seamstress at Marshall Field's.

Ayliffe married Paul Robert Moore, son of Robert C. Moore and Pauline, of Carlinville, Illinois, in 1927. Their daughter, Mary Helen, the first granddaughter of John and Eda, was born in 1930. According to the 1930 Census, when she was 2 months old, the family lived on Stewart Avenue in Chicago in an apartment building that was at 6617-19 Stewart Avenue. The second granddaughter was named Barbara . Ayliffe died on the 29th of December, 1931, when the baby was just a few days old. She was buried in Moore Cemetery near Carlinville, Illinois.

In 1930, John and Eda were still living south of Harristown in Macon County, Illinois, where he was farming. John was 62 and Eda was 55. When he was ready to retire, about 1934, they sold the farm and moved to the village of Niantic.

In 1944, John and Eda celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary.









John I Hawk--Reuses Tires

On the 10th October of 1925, this article was published in the Decatur Review newspaper:

OLD TIRE IS USED TO WATER CHICKENS

Old tires have been put to many uses, their utility not being destroyed when they are no longer fit for the road. But one of the latest uses to which it has been put is found on the John hawk farm in Harristown township, where an old tire is in use as a water trough for the chickens. The tire, not quite worn through, was slit all around the middle and the halves laid flat on the ground and filled with water. it doesn't need a diagram to show how accessible and convenient this device is.

From Alabama To Illinois

By 1910, the John I. Hawk family lives in Selma, Alabama. There are now four children: Virgil Aden, Thelma Kate, Mildred Olivette, and Ayliffe Cyrene. The census shows that Eda had five children, four of whom are living. John’s occupation is drilling wells. They now own their own home and John works for himself.

John moved his family back to Illinois about 1915. John’s father died in 1918 and John’s son, Virgel, married a local girl (Leva Whiteside) after going to serve in World War I and settled close by to help him farm.


By 1920, John and Eda had moved back to Harristown, Macon, Illinois, where John was living on and farming his father’s farm. John's mother, Amy C. "Kate" Hawk, lives with them as well as the three girls. His son, Virgil and wife, Leva Whiteside, live next door and have the first grandson, John William. Leva’s brother, Dyle Whiteside and his wife, Edna Hartwig Whiteside, live close by. Thelma Hawk is a public school teacher at Bend School.

Leltter from Eutaw, Mississippi

Eda and John traveled throughout the south during the early years of their marriage. He drilled wells for water. Their children were born in West Point, Mississippi and Selma, Alabama. John I wrote a letter to the Decatur Review from Eutaw, Alabama in February of 1899 which was published in the Decatur paper.


The Decatur Review
Friday Morning, Feb. 17, 1899 Page 4
Source: www.ancestry.com Newspaper archives

Eutaw, Ala. Feb. 14, 1899
Ed. Review.
The Review being a regular visitor to me at this place and seeing a good many letters from farther south than this, I thought I would give the Macon county people a description of this country here.
We are just recovering from a sudden attack of a northern-type blizzard, the measure going sown to nine degrees below zero yesterday morning, being the coldest weather by eight degrees ever experienced in this country, according to the oldest settlers.
I am an old Macon county boy, being born and raised in Harristown township.
Eutaw is a beautiful little town of 600 inhabitants about seventy-five miles southwest from Birmingham and sixty-two miles northeast from Meridian, Miss, on the A. G. S. railroad. The soil in town is sandy with red clay subsoil and is excellent land when fertilized, but south and southwest from town two miles begins the celebrated prairie belt of Alabama, the finest cotton land in the United States. Land that has grown nothing but cotton for sixty years and not a shovelful of fertilizer and still makes a good crop, from 600 to 800 pounds of seed cotton to the bale. Of course, taking these lands as a whole, they will not produce that much, for there are spots in them, as in all other sections of the south, that will not produce anything. The best of these lands will produce from fifteen to twenty-five bales of cotton per acre, but would do better if they were fertilized.
These lands lay as pretty and look as good as Macon county lands and can be bought from $10 to $25 per acre and rent for from $1.50 to $2.50 per acres, so you see it is a better per cent on the amount invested than most Macon county lands.
Good pasture can be made here in a short time, also good hay grasses do well here and hay is in good demand at from $12.50 to $18 per ton.
All kinds of stock do well here and do not have to be fed so long through the winter. I have seen good hogs killed taken up from the woods and they had not see a grain of corn all fall. Some fine deer and turkeys are in the swamp and plenty of quail and rabbit. The climate is mild and healthful, about the same as through all the central south.
I would not advise any one to come here without some capital. I believe any one coming here with small capital and investing it prudently would realize quick and good returns. There is plenty of labor and good land and it needs some energy and eastern push to utilize it.
John I. Hawk

Eda Sanders Married John I Hawk

Eda Sanders married John I. Hawk, the son of A.C. Hawk on
01 Aug 1894 in St. Louis, MO. They went back to Niantic on Saturday where they made their home.

Eda, Thelma, John I and Virgel Hawk, about 1898. Thelma and Virgel were born in West Point, Mississippi, which must not have been far from Meridian, Mississippi where this photo was taken.

(Photo from the files of Ayliffe Hawk Moore, inscribed in Mildred Hawk’s handwriting,
“For Alie – John I Hawk and Family, Taken in December, 1898”. From Mary Moore
Willis Armstrong, Ayliffe’s daughter, 2005.)

.

The children of John I. HAWK and Eda Myrtle Sanders were:

1. Virgel Aden Hawk, born 18 Oct 1895 in West Point, Clay, Mississippi; died 25 Apr 1973 in Springfield, Sangamon, IL. (married Leva Whiteside, March 12, 1918.)

2. Thelma Kate Hawk Williams, born 29 Mar 1898 in West Point, Clay, Mississippi; died 26 Mar 1993 in LaMesa, CA. (married Don Williams)

3. Mildred Olivette Hawk, born 04 May 1900 in Selma, Dallas, Alabama; died 03 Feb 2003 in St. Louis, MO.

4. Ayliffe Cyrene Hawk18 Moore, born 14 Apr 1902 in Selma, Dallas, Alabama; died 29 Dec 1931 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. (Married Paul Moore)

Aden Clevenger Hawk

Aden Clevenger Hawk was born 19 August 1839 in on a farm eight miles north of Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, the third child of William and Amy Penelope “Nellie” Hawk.

The family moved to Illiopolis Township in 1842 and on Nov. 1, 1845[1], located in Macon County. He died 01 November 1918 in Niantic, Macon, IL. He married Amy Catherine Cass Blankinship 06 November 1862 in Macon Co., IL, daughter of Joseph Blankinship and Amy Ridgeway. She was born 20 June 1842 in Ohio, and died 13 April 1928 in Harristown, Macon Co., IL.

She was usually called “Kate” or Catherine and he was called, “ A. C.”

The marriage certificate of A. C. Hawk and Amy Blankinship shows that they married November 6th, 1862. The Civil War was raging and Abraham Lincoln was President of the U.S. A.C.’s brother, James M., joined the Union forces.

Aden and his wife, “Kate”, lived about 4 miles southeast of Niantic, which is now in Macon County, Illinois. They had five children: Aliff, John, Nellie, Edward and Roy.

A C Hawk purchased 40 acres of land in the north east part of the northwest section of section 30, in township 16N, range 01E, Meridian 3, in the county of Macon on Nov 20, 1867 as listed in the Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database. (Volume 791, page 408). He paid $15.00 per acre for a total of $600.00. This was two years after the end of the Civil War.


[1] The Old Settler’s Reunion of 1889 lists A.C. Hawk’s immigration to Illinois as 1839 and to Macon County as 1878.

A C Hawk Family

Aden Clevenger Hawk


A Story of
An Illinois Pioneer Family

Compiled by his great-great granddaughter,
Sue Hawk Ridgley
2008


The Hawk Family Name:

The Hawk family name is a source of great pride and dates back centuries. Research indicates that Hawk began as a patronymical and locational name and means, "descendant of Haw or Hal; dweller at the sign of the hawk; and, one with the characteristics of a hawk."
Spelling variations include: Hawk, Hawke, Hawkes, Hauk, Hauke and others. The HAWK family traces their ancestral roots back to origin, and first appeared in ancient medieval records in Lincolnshire .
From very early on the HAWK family not only held lands and estates in but were also actively allied with other influential families. They also branched out into other territories and holdings, before taking the long voyage to the new world. First found in Lincolnshire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before The Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.



Dedicated to the memory of

Virgel and Leva Whiteside Hawk


Copyright: Sue Hawk Ridgley 2008

When Macon County was settled, our ancestors, George William Hawk, his father, David Hawk and Aden C. Hawk and his family, were among its earliest inhabitants, having moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio and then to Indiana before coming to Illinois. They were the pioneers who worked to create farms from the prairie sod. This is their story. It is written for their descendants and for other interested persons. Every effort has been made to insure accuracy, but questions remain and facts are incomplete.

Thanks are given to Connie J. Hawk, my sister, who started collecting family information in the early 1980’s and who allowed me to use it as a foundation of my on-going research when I started in 1994. Thanks, too, to our father, Roland E. Hawk, and our uncle, Garry Hawk, whose memories fostered the telling of this story of our family.

Any additions to the story are welcome.

The Hawk Family in Illinois
David Hawk and his son, George William
Came to
Macon County, Illinois
From Pennsylvania in 1842


David Hawk and his son, George William, came from the part of Pennsylvania where the Conestoga wagons were built in Lancaster County to Niantic, Illinois in 1842. They are listed on the 1840 census, in separate households. David died not long after they came to Illinois and was buried on the old Jacobs place in Macon County[1].

George William[2] Hawk (son of David Hawk) was born 21 June 1810 in Pennsylvania and died 03 July 1846 in Macon Co., IL. He married Rebecca Penelope Templeman (Templin[3]) 23 February 1833 in Fayette Co., Ohio. She was born 15 November 1812 in Fayette County, Ohio and died 26 September 1886 in Macon County, IL.

George William Hawk, sometimes known as Bill or William, is listed as a founding member of Macon County in the History of Macon County written in 1880. He came to Macon County in 1842 at age 32, with his father, David, who died in 1844. George's mother, whose name is unknown, is supposed to have died in Pennsylvania before 1842. They settled south of Niantic, Illinois.

“The lands in Niantic Township were regarded as virtually worthless in 1839 when the township was added to Macon County. Pioneers had begun settling the land about 1825, however, the town of Niantic wasn’t laid out until 1852, following the completion of the Great Western Railroad. Niantic lay on the main line of the railroad, but when it was first established, the little town was called Lockhart. Following that name, it was known as Long Point, then Prairie City, and finally by a vote of seven of thirteen votes cast by its citizens, Niantic was named for a town in Connecticut where some of the early settlers had formerly lived.” (Central Illinois Gen Qtrly, Summer 1996).

George William Hawk died at age 36 yrs., 31 days. He is buried in Long Point Cemetery, which is just south of Niantic, Illinois. His wife, Rebecca Penelope, is also buried there.





The children of GEORGE HAWK and REBECCA Penelope TEMPLEMAN/TEMPLIN were:
i. REBECCA HAWK, m. UNKNOWN WOODS. (lived in Alexandria, Missouri)
ii. JOHN ARMSTRONG HAWK, b. 10 March 1837, Fayette Co., Ohio; d. 18 December 1910, Niantic, Macon Co., IL. (aka: Armstrong Hawk)
iii. ADEN CLEVENGER HAWK, b. 19 August 1839, Lafayette, Indiana (Tippecanoe County); d. 01 November 1918, Niantic, Macon Co., IL. (aka: A. C. Hawk)
iv. JAMES MADISON HAWK, b. 1842; d. Springfield, Sangamon Co., IL. (aka: James M. Hawk)
v. GEORGE WILLIAM HAWK II, b. 1844, Niantic, Macon Co., IL, d. 11 October 1864, Niantic, Macon Co., IL. (He shares a common 4-sided spire like gravestone with both of his parents in Long Point Cemetery.)
After G. W.’s death, his widow, “Nellie” married Nathan Averitt and they had a child: Laura Averitt, b.29 May 1854, Niantic, Macon, IL.
[1] Enter the entrance to Brown cemetery and continue past it to Timber Trail; turn left into a new housing addition. The Muirhead cemetery is fenced off by an old black iron fence on the top of the hill just west of Lotz's House. The land was owned by Herbert Kraft in 1988.
[2] He was known as William Hawk.
[3] Templin is the surname given in the Shelby Whaley Bible, but Templeman was listed on the death certificate of A. C. Hawk and in the probate affidavit given by John I. Hawk in 1946.

Aden Clevenger Hawk