Margaret (Lotz) Hawk (1788 - 1875)

Born 15 Dec 1788 in Frederick County, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Isaac Hawk — married 16 Jan 1805 in Bath County, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 5 Apr 1875 at age 86 in Wilksville, Vinton County, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Margaret was born in 1788. Margaret Lotz ... She passed away in 1875.

Atlas of Vinton County, Ohio^[1]

"In the year 1810, Henry Duc, the agent of Mr. Wilkes, came on to the ground, and on the tenth day of June laid out the town, naming it Wilkesville, in honor of the owner. During this year five families settled in the township. The first was that of Isaac Hawk.

Isaac Hawk moved from Greenbrier County, Virginia, in 1807, to the lower part of Gallia County, Ohio and in January, 1810, he came to Wilkesville, Athens County, (now Vinton County), where he remained until his death, in 1862. The first sermon ever preached in Wilkesville was preached at his house by Rev. Mr. Dixon, a Methodist Minister. Mr. Hawk was a soldier of the War of 1812. His venerable widow, Margaret, now in her eighty-seventh year, is the "oldest inhabitant of Wilkesville". Benjamin Hawk, Henry Hawk, Michael Hawk and Jonah Hawk, all honored citizens of the township today, are the sons of these worthy pioneers....The first child born in Wilkesville was Clara Jones; the second was Henry Hawk, Justice of the Peace for the past sixteen years....Mr. Duc boarded with them at the time when he laid out the town.

Mr. Duc offered a land warrant to the first child that should be born in Wilkesville. Competition was probably lively, but the Jones family won the race. It is understood that this is the only contest in which "Esquire Henry" was ever defeated during a long and useful life."

Sources

1. ↑ Atlas of Vinton County, Ohio", Chapter 1, Early History by Charles B. Taylor

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX7Z-JCR : 9 November 2014), Margaret Hawk in household of Isaac Hawk, Wilksville, Vinton, Ohio, United States; citing family 916, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL7-KLC : 30 December 2015), Margaret Hawk in entry for Isaac Hawk, 1860.

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