Byline from the Kokomo Morning Dispatch: MAN OF WORTH PASSES AWAY. One of Five Brothers Who Came to Howard County In the Early Day - Well Known and Esteemed The County Over. Luman W. Hawkins, for nearly sixty years a resident of Ervin township, thirteen miles west of the city, and one of the most widely-known farmers of Western Howard county, died at his home at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The funeral is to be held from the residence at 10 o'clock this morning, the religious services in charge of the Rev. Hauck of the Old Order Dunkard church. Interment will follow in the Pete's Run cemetery. Mr. Hawkins, who was in his seventy-first year, had been for three years ailing with a chronic stomack trouble, which, with a complication of heart ailment, brought about his death. For many months he had hardly left the farm home. He had not visited Kokomo, where in the days gone by he had been a familiar figure. He was a man of striking figure, standing six-foot three and with patriarchial beard; a genial, kindly-spoken man, who "knew everybody by his first name" and whom everybody knew and delighted to meet. In the community in which he lived throughout nearly all of his long and useful life - the Pete's Run neighborhood - he was held in highest esteem as a citizen and a neighbor, a man whose word was as his bond, holding and meriting the confidence and a regard a regard that approached affection of all who knew him. One of Five Brothers. Mr. Hawkins was born in Preble county, Ohio, July 4, 1838. With his parents and five brothers, but one of whom survive him, he came to Howard county in the fall of 1850, settling in Ervin township and near the farm where his eyes were closed to the activities of the world. One of the brothers, the late John Hawkins, lived for many in years in Kokomo, in the early days, being engaged as a salesman in the old D. Friday clothing house in West Mulberry street, and also serving as a justice of the peace for Center township. He was engaged in the banking business in Flora when he died a few years ago. The other brothers were Samuel, Sevier and John Hawkins. The latter alone survives. His home is in Rogers, Benton, Arkansas. He was at the bedside of his brother for some time, returning to his home but one week before the call of the death messenger. There also survives him the widow and one son, John Hawkins, a progressive farmer of Ervin township whose acres adjoin those of his father. He Wrought Well. From his young manhood Luman W. Hawkins wrought well. He was industrious and frugal, but he denied no advantages to those who were dear to him. He was three times married, first to Della Starr and following her death to Carrie VanAusdall of this county. Several years after the death of his second wife he married in 1886, Mary VanAusdall of Keokuck, Iowa, a sister of the second Mrs. Hawkins. In all the county there was not a more hospitable home, none where friend or stranger was made more warmly welcome. A Sterling Democrat. Mr. Hawkins was in politics a Democrat of the old school, and one, though being of the old school, progressed with his party. He took the livliest interest in public and political affairs, was a wide reader and a man of high intelligence as he was of firm convictions. For many years and up to the time his fatal illness fell upon him he was one the The Dispatch's corps of rural correspondents. His communications from Pete's Run carried something more than the news and gossip of the neighborhood. They were rich in a kindly wit - the kind that has no sting - and a homely philosophy from the school of experience. He was, withal, a man of worth and one for which any man is the better for being able to call friend. NOTE: Obituary notes that Luman W. Hawkins was a member of the Old Order Dunkard church.
