Ancestry of
Howard Hawks

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Cephas Hawks

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• • Great-grandfather of Howard Hawks — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Paul Hawks 
  • Mother:
  • Lois Wait   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Nov 1773 
  • Birth Location:
  • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 May 1857 
  • Death Location:
  • Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Violett Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Chloe Case
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 May 1799 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Eleazer Hawks (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Cephas Hawks

  • ¹ Federal Census, IN, Elkhart County, 1850, Elkhart, Image 22 of 25.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/22/2016).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Deerfield, Vol. 1, p. 70, Birth record for Cephas Hawks.
  • ⁴ Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana: Together with Biographies of . . ., Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers (1893), 648.
  • ⁵ 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), 88, 155-158.
  • ⁶ McCarthy, Todd, Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, New York: Grove Press (1997), Chapter 1.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 125.