The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present

Genealogy of the Hawkinses, Alstons, and Rugeleys

Genealogy of the Hawkinses, Alstons, and Rugeleys Hawkins Genealogy For ease in tracing Hawkins Ranch family ancestry, key names appear in italics. I. Philemon Hawkins the first (b.  in Gloucestershire, England) Founder of Hawkins family in America Wife: Ann Eleanor Howard II. Philemon Hawkins the second (September , –) Born in Virginia, moved to North Carolina; this Philemon is the subject of the  oration “Colonel Philemon Hawkins, Sr.” by his grandson John Davis Hawkins Wife: Della Martin III. Philemon Hawkins Jr., the third (–) Lived at Pleasant Hill in Warren County, North Carolina (First named Granville, then Bute, and subsequently Warren County) Wife: Lucy Davis Thirteen children, of whom two are listed here: William Hawkins, elected governor of North Carolina in , married Ann Swepson Boyd John Davis Hawkins, married Jane Boyd IV. John Davis Hawkins (April , –December , ) Born at his father’s home, Pleasant Hill, in Warren County, North Carolina; lawyer and trustee of University of North Carolina; lived at his home, Spring Grove, in Franklin (now Vance) County, North Carolina; buried at Oakwood Cemetery near Raleigh, North Carolina x genealogy Wife: Jane A. Boyd, daughter of Alexander Boyd of Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia Eleven children: James Boyd Hawkins (–), married Ariella Adella Alston Moved to Texas Frank Hawkins (–), married Ann Caroline Read Moved to Mississippi Dr. William J. Hawkins (–), married (first) Mary Alethea Clark, (second) Lucy N. Clark, (third) Mary A. White John Davis Hawkins Jr. (–), married Ann Olivia Clark Became partner of his brother James Boyd Hawkins in  in a new plantation at Caney Creek, Matagorda County, Texas Philemon Benjamin Hawkins (–), married a cousin, Fanny M. Hawkins Dr. Alexander Boyd Hawkins (–), married Martha L. Bailey of Jefferson County, Florida, in ; Alexander (Sandy) Hawkins cultivated citrus in Florida and sent his brother James B. Hawkins orange trees, which Ariella planted at the Hawkins Ranch House Ann Hawkins, married Col. Wesley Young Lucy Hawkins, married Thomas Kean Mary Frances Hawkins, married Protheus E. A. Jones Virginia Boyd Hawkins, married William J. Andrews Jane A. Hawkins, unmarried V. James Boyd Hawkins (December , –May , ) Born at his father’s house, Spring Grove, in Franklin (now Vance) County, North Carolina; moved to Texas in  and established a sugar plantation on Caney Creek in partnership with his brother John D. Hawkins Jr.; phased out of sugar production and, with his son Frank Hawkins, began raising cattle about ; the story of the Hawkins Ranch in Texas begins with the James Boyd Hawkins sugar plantation and development of the cattle business following the Civil War; died at his Ranch House on Lake Austin in Matagorda County, Texas Wife: Ariella Adella Alston (January , –March , ) genealogy xi Nine children (see appendix, Sketches and Letters of the Antebellum Children): Sallie Hawkins (–), married Ferdinando Stith of Memphis Willis Alston Hawkins (–), married Leah Irwin (or Erwin) of Warrenton, North Carolina Virginia Hawkins (Jenny or Little Sis, –), married Edmund Gholson Brodie of Henderson, North Carolina; their only child was James (Jimmy) Hawkins Brodie James Boyd Hawkins Jr. (–) John Davis Hawkins II (–) Ariella (Ella) Hawkins (–) Annie Hawkins, died in  as an infant of three months; not mentioned in letters Frank Hawkins (–), married Elmore Rugeley Hawkins Edgar Hawkins (Charles Edgar Hawkins, –), married Annie Lewis Hardeman; lived at and inherited the Hawkins plantation on Caney Creek. Four children: James Boyd Hawkins II, married Fannie Bruce One child: Annie Dora Hawkins, married Mack Graves Frank Hawkins II (–), married Nettie Franks Two children: Nettie Hawkins and Frank Hawkins III Edgar (Ned) Hawkins, married (first) Ruby Daugherty One child: Savanna Hawkins, married Donald Duson Married (second) Ruby Glasson, no children; when widowed, Ruby married Raleigh Sanborn (Raleigh and brother Camden Sanborn were sons of Annie Hardeman Hawkins and her second husband, John Sanborn); Raleigh and Ruby Sanborn operated part of the Caney plantation land as a farm and ranch and built a house in Bay City using the hand-made bricks of James B. Hawkins’s sugar mill Ella Hawkins, married Seth Taylor One child: Frances Taylor Steves, married Bert C. Steves Five children: Marthella, Taylor, Lewis, Savanna, Diana xii genealogy VI. Frank Hawkins (December , –February , ) Born in the town of Matagorda, died in Austin, Texas Wife: Elmore Rugeley Hawkins (–) Five children: Henry Boyd Hawkins (Harry, August , –December , ), unmarried Meta Hawkins (March , –January , ), married James Claire Lewis Janie Hawkins (January –February , ), unmarried Elizabeth Hawkins (Lizzie, January , –March , ), divorced, no children Elmore Hawkins (Sister, or Aunt Sister, April , –March , ), married Esker L. McDonald, no children VII. Meta Hawkins Lewis (March...