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Subject: OBITUARY - JACOB HAWK.

Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:07 PM

Decatur County Journal

May 20, l897

JACOB HAWK was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, June 3, l83l, and died at his home

in Leon, Iowa, May l2, l897. He was the eldest son of George and

Elizabeth (Peterman) Hawk. When he was eleven years of age his father

died leaving the family to battle with the world as best they could.

MR. HAWK began to learn the carpenter trade when l8 years old and this

occupation he faithfully followed for more than forty years. He

understood his trade thoroughly and was an architect of more than

ordinary ability. Many substantial buildings which he constructed still

stand in Crawford, Wyandotte and Hardin Counties, Ohio, and during the

last twenty years he built many residences in Mercer, Harrison, Gentry

and DeKalb Counties, Missouri.

The deceased was afflicted with kidney trouble for several years and his

sufferings during the past two years were very severe. A wife and five

children are left to mourn his death. For several days prior to his

death, two sons and a daugher were present at his bedside--FRANK J.

HAWK, of Albany, Mo., and MRS. FRANK RICKS, of Davis City, Iowa. One

son, FRED W. HAWK, of Knoxville, Ill., was unable to be present and a

daughter, MRS. MILTON MORRAL, of LaRue, Ohio, could not come on account

of sickness. The funeral services were conducted at the house by REV.

G.M. HUGHES on last Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., after which

interment occurred in Leon Cemetery under the auspices of the Masonic

fraternity of which deceased had long been a member.

April 2, l853, MR. HAWK was married to MISS MARY CAMPBELL, a native of

Bucyrus, Ohio, and the eldest daughter of ASA D. and NANCY CAMPBELL. In

l858 the couple located in Shelby County, Missouri, and subsequently

moved to Peru, Indiana, where they lived five years. In the fall of

l869 they located on a farm near Pleasanton. They afterwards resided in

Princeton, Albany and Bethany and in the fall of l889 located in Leon.

Among the noticeable features in the character and life of JACOB HAWK

were his unswerving honesty and charitable disposition. He was always

ready to manifest his friendship and sympathy for the poor. As a man

and a citizen he was held in high esteem.

The deceased was not a member of any church organization, but several

times before his death in conversations relating to the future he said

that he had made all right and was confident of immortality beyond the

shores of time.

Death has taken away another neighbor whose face we are to see no more

among us. The crisis which he has met and passed awaits us all.

Beyond the curtain of the grave

What shall befall us none may know

Save this: A manly heart and brave,

True to a friend, fair to a foe,

That, passing, leaves a record clear,

May face the void without a fear.

And not by homily, but deed;

By upright life, by bended knee;

By grace and worth, not garb or creed--

The honest man, whoe'er he be,

Is proved of Heaven's bliss an heir

Beyond the grave--if Heaven be there.

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CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to return our sincere thanks to the friends and neighbors who

were so kind in our trouble, and especially to those who gave so much of

their time to us during the many weary months of our husband and

father's illness. He appreciated the interest you took in his welfare

and felt thankful to you all.

MRS. HAWK AND CHILDREN.

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