Willie Elizabeth (Hearn) Hawkins (1910 - 2001)

Born 31 Oct 1910 in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin William Hawkins Sr — married about 1927 in Georgia, United States

Died 21 Apr 2001 at age 90 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Eliza was born in 1910 to Ewell Hearn and Leah Pate. She had at least 7 siblings: Zimmie Mae, Cline E, Everett Ewell, Nell Lee, Thomas Edmond, Duella M, and Abner Thorpe.

• Fact: Residence (1920) Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia

She married Benjamin William Hawkins Sr, son of Carroll C Hawkins and Ola Lee Collins, about 1927 in Georgia. She was about 17 years old. They had at least 2 children together:

1. Benjamin William Hawkins Jr
2. William T. "Bill" Hawkins

• Fact: Residence (1929) Milledgeville, Georgia
• Fact: Residence (1930) Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia
• Fact: Residence (1935) Augusta, Richmond, Georgia
• Fact: Residence (1935) Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Fact: Residence (1940) Ward 3, Atlanta, Atlanta City, Fulton, Georgia
• Fact: Residence (1996) Atlanta, Georgia

She died in 2001 at the age of 90.

• Fact: Burial (April 2001) Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia
• Fact: Residence (21 Apr 2001) Stockbridge, Georgia
• Fact: Obituary (22 Apr 2001) Georgia
• Fact: Residence Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia

Links

Family Search: PersonID L1PM-328
Find A Grave: Memorial #14976848 Headstone Photo: Yes

Sources

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ8Q-JVT : accessed 15 May 2019), Willie Hearn in household of Ewell A Hearn, Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States; citing ED 6, sheet 18B, line 68, family 442, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 233; FHL microfilm 1,820,233.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:39SW-GT2 : accessed 15 May 2019), Willie Eliza Hawkins in household of Benj W Hawkins, Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 24B, line 70, family 678, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 336; FHL microfilm 2,340,071.
• "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJ9W-TF7 : 9 March 2018), Elizabeth Hearn in entry for Hawkins, Benjamin W, Junior, 13 Nov 1930; citing Baldwin, Georgia, United States, Georgia State Archives, Morrow.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K75F-9B9 : 15 March 2018), Willie E Hawkins in household of Benjamin Hawkins, Ward 3, Atlanta, Atlanta City, Fulton, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 160-119, sheet 8A, line 6, family 180, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 729.
• "Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QH-YFLS : accessed 15 May 2019), Willie Elizabeth Hawkins in entry for Benjamine William Hawkins, 1940-1942; citing Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, Records of the Selective Service System, 1926 - 1975, RG 147, National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri; FamilySearch digital folder 005420907.
• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKRX-QCH4 : accessed 15 May 2019), Willie Hawkins, Georgia, United States, 22 Apr 2001; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The, born-digital text.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 May 2019), memorial page for Willie Elizabeth Hawkins (31 Oct 1910–21 Apr 2001), Find A Grave Memorial no. 14976848, citing Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8).

See Also

• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/159784455/person/372096229767/facts : accessed 15 May 2019), profile for Willie Elizabeth "Eliza" Hearn.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 15 May 2019, 22:03), entry for Willie Elizabeth "Eliza" Hearn(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L1PM-328); contributed by various users.