Blufford B. Hawkins, a resident of Howard county most of his life, died at 11 o'clock Wednesday night at his home in Russiaville. He had been ill the past four years with arteriosclerosis and a few days ago contracted pneumonia which brought the end. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Russiaville Christian church in charge of the Rev. F.C. Collier of Flora. Interment will be in North Union cemetery, Ervin township. Two sons survive him, Claude P. Hawkins of Russiaville and Aubrey L. Hawkins of Ann Arbor, Mich. Mrs. Albert Tapp, deceased, for many years a resident of Kokomo, was a sister. Mr. Hawkins was born December 27, 1857 at Berrien Center, Mich., the son of Noah and Susan Hickman Hawkins. In 1861 his father brought his family to Indiana. Here the son grew to manhood, receiving his education in the schools of Howard county, at Burlington and at the Danville Normal College. In 1879 he married Miss Emma Alice Collins of Ervin township. She died in 1893. He was employed at the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Richmond from 1894 to 1905, when he came to Russiaville to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Angie Ratcliff.
