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 1903 - 1982 (78 years)
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| Name |
Homer Jefferson HAWKS |
| Birth |
19 May 1903 |
Lambsburg, Carroll County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 May 1982 |
Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I34141 |
Marshall and Allied Families |
| Last Modified |
3 Jan 2000 |
| Father |
Jefferson Davis HAWKS, b. 4 Aug 1860, Lambsburg, Carroll County, Virginia d. 1 Feb 1933, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Louisa D. MCCRAW, b. 8 Mar 1861, Carroll County, Virginia d. 15 Jan 1926, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina (Age 64 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Sep 1880 |
, Carroll County, Virginia |
| Family ID |
F12219 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
Viola COOK d. Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina |
| Marriage |
12 Nov 1927 |
, Surry County, North Carolina |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F12269 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Marshall 0248B - Gedcom from Larry Shelton.
Uncle Homer retired from the Mt. Airy Fire Dept. He then began restoring
old grandfather clocks. He traveled all around looking for these clocks. He would bring them home and completely restore them. My parents moved to High Point, N. C. in February 1944, which was the year I graduated from Mt. Airy High School. I wanted to stay in Mt. Airy and graduate with the friends I
had gone to school with for 12 years. It pleased me to no end when Uncle
Homer and Aunt Viola volunteered to let me stay with them the remaining months until I graduated. Aunt Viola was so good to me and I have so warm memories of her.
Uncle Homer was really the first person to talk to me about my ancestors and my heritage. Many times he would take me to Lambsburg, up Pipers Gap and show me what was left standing of Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Louisa's cabin on the curve-now called Pose Bobbits curve.
Many times he would take me to Mt. Carroll Methodist Church where my
Great-Grandfather Nathaniel and Great-grandmother Nancy Hanks Hawks were buried. We also visited Chestnut Grove Cemetery where many of our ancestors were buried. Something inside me kept wanting to know more and more. If not for responsibilities that had to be made primary, I think most of my waking hours would have been spent researching my history.
I was not aware of it, but my dear Mother was writing much about her life in Carroll County, recording her memories, and began to talk about it to me every opportunity we had. I am so grateful I had someone to really awaken in me what a great heritage I have.
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