History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 572. [Bourbon County] [Centerville Precinct] JOSEPH H. HAWKINS, farmer; P. O. Centerville; was born April 14, 1831, in Bourbon County, Ky.; son of Harry and Sarah (Chinn) Hawkins. He, the father of Joseph, was born in Maryland, in 1767, and came to Kentucky when a mere lad, with the McMillans, a surveying party, and settled in Pendleton County, where he married a Miss Fugit, but that lady dying, he moved to Bourbon County, where he married the daughter of Joseph Chinn, from which the union resulted three children: Mary Catharine, wife of Hubbell Chinn; Joseph H., and Margaret, wife of William T. Herne, of Fayette County. The old gentleman died in 1842, after a long and eventful life. Our subject was married in 1854, to Miss Nancy Sparks, daughter of Wesley Sparks, which union was blessed with one child, J. Wesley. Mrs. Hawkins dying, Mr. H. [sic] took as a second wife Miss Lizzie E. Kendall, daughter of Alfred Kendall, and from which marriage have been born six children: Allie K., Joseph L., Marietta, William, Harry and Sallie. Mr. Hawkins owns 800 acres of land ten mile from Paris, and his mother, who is eighty-one years of age, lives with him, on the farm upon which she was born. He farms and handles stock, paying some attention to short-horns, with the "Fourth Duke of Ash Glen" at the head. He has about forty animals, Daisies and Maries being the principal families represented. Mr. Hawkins has served two terms as Magistrate of Centerville Precinct; was a Whig before the war, but is now a Democrat; he and wife are members of the Christian Church. Hawkins Chinn Fugit Hubbell Herne Sparks Kendall McMillan = Pendleton-KY Fayette-KY MD http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/hawkins.jh.txt