I'm wondering if anyone has information regarding these two families?

Question

This is what I have so far: William H. Hawkins (3/27/1848-5/17/1934) married Harriet Virginia (8/5/1850-7/12/1916) and Mary Francis (4/15/1859-12/29/1924) and had about 3 kids named Thomas Jefferson Hawkins, Daisy Ella Hawkins, and William E. Hawkins. They lived in Georgia and Alabama.

The other family is John Howard(5/8/1849-10/27/1922) married Elizabeth (1/30/1861-3/22/1935) and had about 6 kids named Dan, Sam, John Jr., Kate, Mary Will, and James M Howard. This side is from Alabama.

Answer 1

There is a family tree on rootsweb.com with a Howard family which sounds very close to yours.  The only differences are the birth years for both John and Elizabeth which are a few years off, but the birth months and years of death are the same.  They were both married twice and John has 10 children, 6 of which have the same names that you listed.  

Unfortunately, there is not much on John's parents other than his father (no first name shown) was born in 1817 in Tennessee, died in 1880 at Pierce Chapel, Lee Co., AL and married in 1835 to Elizabeth who was born Aug, 1813 in Georgia.  They have 4 children including John.

Instead of copying all the details here, you can just follow this link.  Hopefully this is the right family and will help in your search.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...

Answer 2

Where was William H Hawkins born, you said they lived in Georgia and Alabama which is rather confusing.

Answer 3

Do you have free access to the US Records on Ancestry ? If not, email me at sassy38915 at yahoo and I will give you a free link to use.

Answer 4

For both of these.. your best option at the moment, would be checking www.rootsweb.com for a possible family tree, and also www.genforum.com (use the search filter).

You should be able to locate each in 1860 census with the parents. The trick is that the parents were all adults by 1850, when the census started using each persons name. You might find an aged parent living in the home with them, maybe not.

Anything for persons born before 1850 goes into a different level of searching. Your focus shifts to court records, church records, land, wills, so forth. It is completely do-able, but many persons will not go to the effort if it is pre census.

Answer 5

I was doing research many many years ago and all this sounds so familiar - think this is the family that migrated to Austin, Texas and one became minister and their church is in the Texas Historical Landmarks -- try checking Austin, Texas and I think you will find more info on them.

I gave all the info I had found to lady who was descendant of them (Joyce Hawkins) so don't have papers to refer to - sorry - going on memory here.