William Hawkins

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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William Hawkins, Catlin, farmer, section 7, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, on the 1st of January, 1831, and came to Vermilion county in 1859. He was married on the 28th of March, 1855, to Miss Duanna Burgoyne, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio. She was born on the 20th of August, 1835. They have four children: Sarah E., wife of G. Patterson; Nora B., Lue E., Marietta, and one deceased:

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William N. Mr. Hawkins served in the late war. He enlisted on the llth of August, 1862, in Co. G, 125th Ill. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Perryville and Atlanta. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and was in all the battles in which the regiment was engaged, except Chickamauga. He was at the general review at Washington.