Person:Lucy Hawkins (11)

ALEXANDER STEWART HAWKINS

BIOGRAPHY

AS RECORDED IN:

COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF TOLLAND AND WINDHAM COUNTIES CONNECTICUT.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES.

PUBLISHER: J.H.BEERS & CO., CHICAGO; 1903 P. 443

ALEXANDER STEWART HAWKINS, an honored and successful representative of the agricultural interest of South Coventry, Tolland county, has made for himself a creditable position in the community by his thrift, industry and genuine worth.

John Hawkins, his father, was born in Exeter, R.I., in 1808, and came to Griswold, Conn., when a young man. When he was but eight years old he had worked on a farm for his board and clothes, and the cultivation of the soil was his life work, in which he was more than ordinarily successful. When he first located at Griswold he worked on a farm and in time became possessed of landed property, owning at one time over two hundred acres in the town of Griswold. He was always identified with the Democratic party, but he never sought office, and was content to be a good citizen. At the services of the church in which he was reared he was nearly always present, and proved himself on every occasion its generous supporter. He was married in South Kingston, R.I., to Sally Crandall, who was born in South Kingston, R.I., in 1809, daughter of William and Sally (Tucker) Crandall, and a descendant of a family long settled in that section; she died Feb. 13, 1894. Mr. Hawkins died in February, 1865, and they were both buried in Rixtown Cemetery, in Griswold, Conn. Their children were as follows: Lucy Burrows, the widow of Hial Hull, lives in Willimantic, where her two children are located; John Crandall is a farmer in Griswold, and has one son; William Henry lived in Willimantic, and died at the age of sixty-three; Alexander Stewart is the subject proper of this sketch; Julia Reynolds, widow of Clark Reynolds, lives in Willimantic; Sarah Jane is the wife of Frank Bentley, and lives in Preston, Conn.; and Mary Emma married Joseph T. Hull, of Griswold, and died at the age of twenty-six. The old homestead in Griswold on which these children passed their youth is still in the possession of the family.