Person:Charles Hawkins (45)

      Charles Dolas Hawkins, born 21 June 1884 in Tipton County, Indiana, was the second child, and the first son of Jonas Elwood and Louisa (Turner) Hawkins. Catherine "Kate" Mills was born 09 November 1888. They married circa 1913, but no children were born of the marriage. Dolas was a Mason and Kate belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star. 
     A warranty deed to Dolas from Jonas E. Hawkins was recorded in Tipton County, Indiana deed book # 76, page 106, on 23 May 1925. It was for 40 acres described as the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Sect. 11, Twp. 22 N, R4E. Following Dolas' death, a warranty deed for the same property dated 10 December 1935 was recorded in  deed book # 84, page 321, in which Jonas assumes from Kate and agrees to pay the unpaid mortgage  balance of $2500 to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. 
     Dolas died 17 January 1932. On 4 August 1934 Kate married Otto White. Kate died in 1960, and she and Dolas are buried together in the Sharpsville, Indiana cemetery.  
     Harold Hawkins stated that, "Uncle Dolas was a sick man during the years I remember him. He was 6 feet tall at least. He farmed part of the time." 
     Tombstone reads 1883 to 1932. Obituaries state birth year as 1884, and are likely correct.
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    Home From Hospital. Monday the L. L . Shull ambulance of Sharpsville was at Indianapolis and brought Dolas Hawkins from the Methodist hospital to his home near Sharpsville. Mr. Hawkins was in the hospital twelve weeks taking treatment and returns somewhat improved.   Tipton Daily Tribune, 23 May 1927.

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C. D. Hawkins Rites Funeral Services To Be Held Wednesday For Sharpsville Man

    Sharpsville. Ind., Jan. 18-Funeral services for C. D. (Doles) Hawkins, age 47, whose death occurred Sunday afternoon at his home one and one-half miles southeast of Sharpsville, will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock at his home. The Rev. C. V. Andrews, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Tipton will be in charge and burial will be in Sharpsville cemetery. Mr. Hawkins, who was one of the prominent farmers and stock¬men of this vicinity, had been ill with kidney and nervous disorder for the past two years.
    He was born in Sharpsville community June 21, 1884, and resided on a. farm in this neighborhood until 1911 when he moved to Sharpsville and for one year was engaged in the garage business. Following this he engaged in the hardware business in Sharpsville, then returned to the farm.
    Mr. Hawkins was one of several children born to Jonas E. and Louisa (Turner) Hawkins, Eighteen years ago he was married to Miss Catherine Mills of Sharpsville who survives. He Is survived also by his parents and several brothers and sisters, Mrs. Velma Henderson of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Mrs.Bernice Ballenbecker of Bloomington; Mrs. Hayne Sleeth of Kokomo and Mrs. Coral Dark, Mrs. Nellie Henderson, Mont and Harry Hawkins, all of Sharpsville community.
    Mr. Hawkins Was educated In the schools of Liberty township, and later by extensive reading and study became one of the best informed and most aggressive farmers in his community.

    From a scan of a newspaper clipping, in the Kokomo or Tipton Tribune, that was penciled 1932.

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History of Tipton County, Indiana by Marvin W. Pershing, 1914, pp 425-426

C. D. HAWKINS.

    The young man of today who enters the business world has wonderful opportunities for material success, since this is essentially a commercial age. The young business man who is ambitious to succeed, however, must exercise those qualities of strict integrity and upright dealing which are the necessary concomitants of success, if he wishes to win and retain the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. It is to the credit of the subject of this sketch that he is rapidly building up his business in the town of Sharpsville by the exercise of these very necessary qualities, and the result is that he is laying the foundation for a long and successful career in the business world.
    Charles D. Hawkins, of the firm of J. E. Hawkins & Son, was born in Tipton county, Indiana, June 21, 1844. His parents were J. E. and Louisa (Turner) Hawkins. J. E. Hawkins was born in Ohio in 1860, and came to Indiana when a small boy with his parents, who first settled in Huntington. They later moved to Liberty township, Tipton county, and settled on a farm two and a half miles east of Sharpsville. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hawkins were married in 1880 and their union was blessed with nine children: Nellie, the wife of U. G. Henderson, of Tipton county, who has one daughter, Pauline; Charles, the subject of this sketch, who is still unmarried; Velma, who married the daughter [son] of W. E. Pratt, of Cass county, Indiana, and has three children, Thelma, Martha and William; Harry, who married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Spaulding, and has two children, Charles and Harold; the remaining five children are Mount, Coral, Bernice, May and Marjorie.
    Charles Hawkins attended the schools. of his township and received a good practical education, which he is constantly improving by wide reading along lines pertaining to his particular line of business. He continued to work on his father's farm until 1911, when he went to Sharpsville and engaged in the automobile business. He followed this for about a year, when he sold out to W. H. Gage and, with his father, bought the hardware business of Kirkley & Morgan in Sharpsville. He and his father assumed control of the business on June 15, 1913, and have been meeting with very gratifying success in the short time they have been engaged in it.
    Mr. Hawkins has ever been a Republican, but has never sought political preferment, as his attention has been fully occupied by his business interests. He is gradually working his way upward and his life record has been very creditable and honorable and such as to win for him the esteem and approval of his friends and neighbors. His life might well serve as a source of inspiration to others, showing what can be accomplished when one has the will to do and dare, and when one is persistent, honorable and persevering in a chosen field of labor.

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