Ancestry of
Howard Hawks

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Jennie L. Goff

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• • Grandmother of Howard Hawks — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Feb 1832 
  • Birth Location:
  • Akron, Erie, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jun 1911 
  • Death Location:
  • Los Angeles County, California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oakridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleazer Hawks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Oct 1862 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Elkhart County, Indiana 
  • Child:

  Franklin Winchester Hawks (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jennie Goff is believed to be the daughter of Schuyler Goff and Sarah Mariah Balch. If true, she is listed as Lucy J. Goff in the 1850 census.

• Sources for Jennie L. Goff

  • ¹ California, U.S., Death Index, 1905-1939, Death record for Jennie L Hawks.
  • ² California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for son Frank Winchester Hawks.
  • ³ Elkhart Daily Review (Elkhart, Indiana), 19 JUN 1911, p. 5, Obituary for Mrs Jennie Hawks.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, IN, Elkhart County, 1880, Goshen, E.D. 40, p. 4, Image 4 of 50.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, IN, Elkhart County, 1870, Goshen Ward 2, p. 22, Image 22 of 28.
  • ⁶ Indiana, U.S., Marriage Index, 1800-1941, Marriage record for Eleazer Hawks and Jennie Goff.
  • ⁷ Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana: Together with Biographies of . . ., Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers (1893), 650.
  • ⁸ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 23 JAN 1901, Application for Mrs Jennie L Hawks.
  • ⁹ Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911, Marriage record for son Frank W Hawks and Helen B Howard.
  • ¹⁰ Lane, Imogene Hawks, John Hawks: A Founder of Hadley, Massachusetts: After a Sojourn of Twenty-Four Years at Windsor, Connecticut . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1989), 277.
  • ¹¹ McCarthy, Todd, Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, New York: Grove Press (1997), Chapter 1.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 125.