Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

J. RUSSELL HAWKINS is a native of Spottsylvania [sic] County, Va., born 
January 30, 1805, and is a son of Maj. Joseph L. and Ann P. (Robinson) 
Hawkins, natives of the same county.  His grandfather, John Hawkins, was a 
native of England, and was among the first to engage in the African slave 
trade about 1740, when he came to Virginia.  He died of small-pox, while a 
major in the Revolutionary war, in 1781.  J. Russell Hawkins was reared on a
farm in Virginia.  His father was a well-to-do farmer, and instead of
attending college he had private teachers, who taught him the languages
and sciences.  His aunt, Jane Hawkins, came to Kentucky in an early day,
and married Gen. Todd, who was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, by the
Indians.  J. Russell Hawkins began to read medicine when a boy, but
abandoned it for awhile.  He married, March 10, 1825, Miss Sarah A. Bowles
of Henrico County, near Richmond, Va.  She died in April, 1878.  He has
eight children living: Joseph L., Betsey Ann, Mary Eliza, J. Russell, Jr.,
Julia L., Mildred J., William B. and Hamilton Pope.  He has two brothers
living in Kentucky: Edmund W., at Newport, a lawyer, and Col. Pierce B.
Hawkins of Bowling Green, who was in the Union Army.  The Doctor was
magistrate for the city of Richmond and of Henrico County for a number of
years, and came to Kentucky in 1838.  He graduated from the medical
department of the Transylvania University in 1839, practiced medicine,
first in Boone County for eleven years, then, from 1851 to 1876, practiced
in Franklin County, when he retired.  He represented Boone, Gallatin and
Carroll Counties in the Kentucky Senate in 1846, and served until 1851.
He was elected secretary of the State Senate in 1851, and served for
twenty-five years in this position.  He was also appointed about fifteen
years ago as an assistant to examine into the defalcation of the State
auditor.  He was also one of the three commissioners appointed in 1848 to
locate the Western Lunatic Asylum, Hopkinsville being selected for the
site.  He has been a member of the Baptist Church for fifty-six years.
He owns 200 acres of land, has a pleasant home and is remarkable well
preserved for his age.

Hawkins Robinson Todd Bowles
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Fayette-KY Boone-KY Gallatin-KY Carroll-KY Hopkinsville-Christian-KY
Newport-Campbell-KY Richmond-Henrico-VA Spotsylvania-VA England

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