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Col James Boyd Hawkins

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Col James Boyd Hawkins

Birth
Franklin County, North Carolina, USA
Death
11 May 1896 (aged 82)
Hawkinsville, Matagorda County, Texas, USA
Burial
Hawkinsville, Matagorda County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Born Spring Grove Estate, Franklin Co., NC, son of Col. John Davis Hawkins and Jane Anderson Boyd, husband of Ariella A. Alston of NC. He established his plantation of 3074 acres on lower Caney Creek (area became Hawkinsville) for cotton, then grew sugar cane and produced sugar for the South during the war of Northern Aggression. Subsequently,the plantation was expanded to over 40,000 acres producing beef cattle. The Hawkins family moved into a new home on Lake Austin (Matagorda Co.).
Born Spring Grove Estate, Franklin Co., NC, son of Col. John Davis Hawkins and Jane Anderson Boyd, husband of Ariella A. Alston of NC. He established his plantation of 3074 acres on lower Caney Creek (area became Hawkinsville) for cotton, then grew sugar cane and produced sugar for the South during the war of Northern Aggression. Subsequently,the plantation was expanded to over 40,000 acres producing beef cattle. The Hawkins family moved into a new home on Lake Austin (Matagorda Co.).

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