Obituary
Captain J. E. Hawkins Dead
The Dallas Morning News, July 19, 1912 page 14
Special to The News. Stephenville, Tex. July 18.
Capt. J. E. Hawkins died suddenly on the Santa Fe train between Valley
Mills and Morgan while en route to the latter place. His daughter,
Mrs. John McMurrow, of Frederick Okla. was with him at the time and said
he had appeared well when suddenly gasped and passed away without word or
struggle.
Capt; Hawkins was born near La Porte, Ind. Dec. 13, 1829 and came with
his parents to Texas in 1848, locating in Ellis County near present Midlothian.
He was practicing law in Waxahachie when the Civil War began and made
up a company with Parsons Brigade to enter service with the Confederacy.
He was wounded on two occasions during the war.
In the late 1860s Capt Hawkins was District Attorney for a large
areat including Ellis, Johnson, Erath, Parker and a number of other counties
and represented Ellis County in the State Legislature in the 1970s.
Since his wife's death in 1881 he had lived with his children and called
this city, where his son W. H. Hawkins, his home.
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