Mary Elizabeth Welch and Olney Hawkins
OLNEY HAWKINS was born November 20, 1808 in Vermont,1924 and died September 27, 1875 in Ottawa, LaSalle, Illinois.1484, 1924 He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.1926
He married MARY ELIZABETH WELCH on September 24, 1835 in Washtenaw County, Michigan,29 daughter of JANE SCOTT and HENRY WELCH. She was born June 18, 1815 in Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia,1924, 1927 and died January 16, 1890 in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa.808, 1924, 1927 She is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.1926, 1927
Children of MARY ELIZABETH WELCH and OLNEY HAWKINS:
- MARTHA SMITH HAWKINS, b. October 31, 1842, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan;1924, 456, 6325 m. WILLIAM ROBINSON GRAHAM on September 24, 1867 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan972; d. November 25, 1915, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa.6325
- MARY CHURCHILL HAWKINS, b. 1845, Michigan; m. EDWARD DEWITT KINNE on June 27, 1867 in Washtenaw County, Michigan29; d. November 21, 1882.1931
- FRANCES LATIMER HAWKINS, b. July 31, 1848, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan;1488 m. (1) WILLIAM SACKETT PALMER on December 25, 1867 in St. Andrews Church, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan1925, m. (2) GOODCIL BUCKINGHAM on November 19, 1885 in New York, Manhattan, New York3558; d. November 19, 1898, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.6175
- JENNIE SCOTT HAWKINS, b. August, 1852, Michigan; m. (1) DR. EDWARD THOMAS DOBBS on January 10, 1883 in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa961, 1939, m. (2) DR. HENRY LORD COCHRAN in 1910 in New Jersey7741; d. May 21, 1921, Hotel Montague, Brooklyn, Kings, New York.93, 1911
Work History
- Olney Hawkins was a trial attorney.1485
Newspaper Articles
Jackson Daily Citizen, August 1, 18713188
Olney Hawkins, Esq., the oldest member of the Washtenaw Bar, has just retired from practice. He is one of the oldest and most widely known lawyers in the State. He first began to practice law in Detroit more than forty years ago. When he first came to Detroit there were thirteen lawyers practicing in that city, and the first year nine of the thirteen died with the fever and ague. He has tried during his forty years' practice more than six thousand cases.
Obituaries
Daily Inter-Ocean, September 28, 18751484
MORTUARY.
Death of the Hon. Olney Hawkins.
Special Telegram to the Inter-Ocean.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 27. — A dispatch was received here to-day announcing the sudden death of the Hon. Olney Hawkins, of this city, at Ottawa, Ill. He left Ann Arbor on Saturday night last to attend to important legal business in Illinois. Mr. Hawkins was one of the most prominent members of the Washtenaw County bar, and immediately on receipt of the news Judge Crane adjourned court out of respect for the deceased. He was 68 years of age, and has held many prominent positions of trust in the State, and had been a resident of Ann Arbor for forty-five years.
Jackson Daily Citizen, September 28, 18753187
A WELL-KNOWN ATTORNEY GONE.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Ill., says Olney Hawkins, a well-known attorney-at-law, from Ann Arbor, Mich., who was there attending a suit in that county court, in connection with Attorney Maloney, of Ottawa, dropped dead at the Clifton House at half-past 12 o'clock yesterday. Spasms of the heart were said to be the cause. He was a man about 63 years of age.
Peninsular Courier, October 1, 18751923
Death of Hon. O. Hawkins.
About half-past one o'clock Monday afternoon, a telegram was received by Mayor E. D. Kinne, announcing the death of Hon. O. Hawkins, his father-in-law, at Ottawa, Ill. The Circuit Court was in session but as soon as his death was made known Judge Crane immediately adjourned court till the following day. The next morning, Tuesday, at 8:30 o'clock a meeting of the Bar was held in the court-room, to appoint a committee to draft resolutions, and to co-operate with the friends of the deceased.
E. W. Morgan called the meeting to order, and stated its object; saying that Judge Kingsley was the oldest member of the Washtenaw County Bar and Mr. Hawkins next.
James B. Gott was appointed Secretary; and Messrs. E. Lawrence, Beakes and Frazer a committee to draft resolutions.
Judge Crane suggested that the Bar repair in a body to the depot, and escort the remains of Mr. Hawkins to his former residence, which suggestion, on motion of Mr. Beakes was adopted.
The committee to draft resolutions was also appointed a committee to co-operate with friends of the deceased.
The meeting then adjourned till half past one P. M. At the above hour the members of the bar met, in the County Clerk's office, and the following resolutions were presented which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, Olney Hawkins, one of the oldest and most prominent members of the Bar of this county, has suddenly departed from his earthly life, the members of the Association of the Washtenaw County Bar, in commemoration of the decease of their distinguished friend and professional brother, cordially and unanimously, unite in the adoption of the following resolutions:
Resolve, That we all bear cordial testimony to the great natural ability, noble generosity, and wonderful professional skill and acumen of our deceased brother.
Resolved, That we keenly feel and deeply appreciate the great and inevitable loss which the bar has sustained in the decease of our friend, and see no one among our number to successfully and completely fill the chair that now stands vacant.
Resolved, That we cordially sympathize with his family and relatives in this sudden and lamentable bereavement, and indulge the certain hope that our friend and brother has only stepped from this to the eternal life, and that he has gained though we have lost, at this exchange of worlds.
Resolved, That we, as a body, escort the remains of our friend and brother, to his former residence, and attend his funeral.
Resolved, That the Circuit Court be requested to enter these resolutions upon its records, and that a certified copy of the same be presented to the family of the deceased by the clerk.
They then adjourned to the Court Room and presented them to the Court, who ordered them to be entered on the records, as requested, and a certified copy presented to the family of the deceased. Remarks were made by several members of the Bar. At 4 o'clock, the bar, in a body, met the remains at the depot, and escorted them to undertaker Martin's who immediately put the body in ice.
The funeral took place at the Episcopal Church, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and was largely attended. Rev. Wyllys Hall delivered the sermon.
Mr. Hawkins, came to Ann Arbor in 1832, removing here from Detroit, where he had studied law with Mr. Benjamin Witherell. His native place was Vermont where he lived till he was twenty-two years old. He was admitted to the bar in 1830. In 1835 he married Miss Mary E. Welch of Scranton, Virginia, who survives him. For two years, in 1838 and 1839, he was State Senator. He has been prominently connected with the Bar since his locating here, and leaves many warm friends.
He leaves, besides his wife, four daughters, three of whom are married. They are Mrs. E. D. Kinne of this city, Mrs. Graham of Chicago; Mrs. Palmer of New York City, and Miss Jennie Hawkins, who resides with her mother. Friday last was the fortieth anniversary of his marriage. He left on that day for Ottawa, Ill., where he died of heart disease. He was sixty-eight years old.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| July 16, 1850803 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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| June 28, 1860802 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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| June 28, 1870801 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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| June 5, 1880800 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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| January 1, 188583 | Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa |
