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Sion B. Hawkins Obituary

The obituary from
The Americus Weekly Times - Recorder Friday June 17, 1892 and reads:



DR. HAWKINS DEAD,

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AND ALL AMERICUS MOURNS HIS LOSS.

-------------- An Old School Gentleman Passes Away to the Sorrow of Countless Friends – He Died Yesterday Just After Noon – The Funeral Exercises Take Place To-day.

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Dr. S. B. Hawkins is dead.

Saturday just a little after noon he drew his last breath, and his soul was snatched from the earthly clay into the realms of immortality.

And here below is all this section and in other sections there are left mourning, sorrowing friends and relatives. A tinge of sadness pervaded everything in Americus yesterday, and on all sides could be heard deep and heart-felt expression of regret that such a man had left his world forever.

Dr. Hawkins was taken sick several weeks ago, but for several days it took no serious turn, and his friends were not at all apprehensive. Then he (can’t read) refusing to take his medication or proper nourishment. He grew rapidly worse, and for many days his condition has been very critical. Day before yesterday he as very low, and it was begun to be recognized the end was near. Yesterday morning it was known that he could not live, and a little after 12 o’clock the end came.

Dr. Hawkins was a member of the knights of Pythias and was a Knight Templar. These orders conducted the funeral ceremonies.

The pall bearers will be Messrs. K.M. McDonald, A.J. Buchanan, William Argue and W.E. Staley, DeMolay commanders; and Messrs, Charlie Lamar, W.P. Burt, J.W. Carter and S.B. Stanfield of the Knights of Pythias.

Dr. Hawkins was one of those whole-souled, candid gentlemen of the old school. Every word and action of his came from the heart, and his deep sincerity gathered about him that wide circle of admiring friends who now so mourn his absence.

He was born in January, 1818, in Morgan County, Ga. He attended the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and soon after graduation moved to what was then known as Lannahassee, in Kinchafoonee county. This is now Webster county, and the place was near what is now Preston.

Just after the war, he came to Americus, and here he has remained ever since. He married Miss Julia Kelsey, who lived near Atlanta. She died ten years ago.

His children are: John W. Hawkins, of Preston; C.J. Hawkins, S.B. Hawkins, Jr., Neal Hawkins, Mrs. McCormick, of Americus, Mrs. Alma Hill, of Dawson, and Mrs. John Hudson.

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Dr. Hawkins Buried.

Dr. S. B. Hawkins sleeps the long sleep beneath the sod in Oak Grove cemetery.

Sunday afternoon the exercises were held at his home, where Rev. Mr. Williams conducted the ceremonies. Immediately afterward the procession started for the cemetery. A large crowd of this noble old gentlemen’s friends attended, and the entire city was filled sadness. The Knights Templar and the Knights of Pythias took charge of the exercises at the grave, and loving hands attend to the last sad rites.

Everybody misses Dr. Hawkins. He was a man popular with all, and one whose absence is deeply felt.