Regiment Key to the DeKalb Confederate Database
#1 Company E, 7th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
"DeKalb Light Infantry"
May 29, 1861
#2 Company A, 38th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Evans' Brigade , Gordon's Division, Wright's Legion,
Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
"Murphey Guards"
September 26, 1861
Hawkins, John M. 2nd Lt. # 1
Hawkins, John M. 5th Sgt # 2
American Civil War Soldiers
about John M Hawkins
Name: John M Hawkins ,
Residence: DeKalb County, Georgia
Enlistment Date: 29 May 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Georgia
Unit Numbers: 327 327
Service Record: Enlisted as a Lieutenant 2nd Class on 29 May 1861
Commission in Company E, 7th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 29 May 1861.
Resigned, disability Company E, 7th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 02 January 1862
John was buried with his wife, Valeria Ann Perkins, in the family cemetery (recorded in Dekalb CO, GA as the Jones-Perkins-Hawkings Cemetery)located next door to his homeplace on Covington Highway just East of Avondale Estates in Dekalb CO, GA. In later years , it was reported to family that a "neighbor" had removed the markers from the cemetery and made door steps from them. The stones were not ever found, but the burial was recorded from the oral history given by their granddaugter, Ella Hawkins Edwards who also lived in the area, to her granddaughter, Frances Long Greene. It is also recorded in Franklin Garrett's cemetery survey of the 1930s.
According to 1900 Alabama census records he was a "retired dentist" and date of birth was recorded as October 1823.
Regiment Key to the DeKalb Confederate Database
#1 Company E, 7th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
"DeKalb Light Infantry"
May 29, 1861
#2 Company A, 38th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Evans' Brigade , Gordon's Division, Wright's Legion,
Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
"Murphey Guards"
September 26, 1861
Hawkins, John M. 2nd Lt. # 1
Hawkins, John M. 5th Sgt # 2
American Civil War Soldiers
about John M Hawkins
Name: John M Hawkins ,
Residence: DeKalb County, Georgia
Enlistment Date: 29 May 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Georgia
Unit Numbers: 327 327
Service Record: Enlisted as a Lieutenant 2nd Class on 29 May 1861
Commission in Company E, 7th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 29 May 1861.
Resigned, disability Company E, 7th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 02 January 1862
John was buried with his wife, Valeria Ann Perkins, in the family cemetery (recorded in Dekalb CO, GA as the Jones-Perkins-Hawkings Cemetery)located next door to his homeplace on Covington Highway just East of Avondale Estates in Dekalb CO, GA. In later years , it was reported to family that a "neighbor" had removed the markers from the cemetery and made door steps from them. The stones were not ever found, but the burial was recorded from the oral history given by their granddaugter, Ella Hawkins Edwards who also lived in the area, to her granddaughter, Frances Long Greene. It is also recorded in Franklin Garrett's cemetery survey of the 1930s.
According to 1900 Alabama census records he was a "retired dentist" and date of birth was recorded as October 1823.
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