Person Sheet


Name Anna Hawks11,9
Birth 13 Sep 1774, Shelburne, Massachusetts9,18
Death 25 Aug 1868, Adrian, Michigan69
Burial West Adrian Cem, Adrian, Michigan
Father Ensign Moses Hawks (1737-1806)
Mother Rhoda Childs (1746-1834)
Spouses
1 Rufus Smead18,9
Birth 27 Oct 1764, Montague, Massachusetts11,9,18
Death 20 Feb 1848, Adrian Twp, Lenawee Co, Michigan18,11
Burial West Adrian Cem, Adrian, Michigan
Father Samuel Smead (1719-1809)
Mother Rebecca Severance (1728-1769)
Marriage 19 Nov 1807, Shelburne, Mass.11,9
Children Moses Hawks (1808-1867)
Anna (1810-1885)
Lovina H. (1812-1898)
Rufus (1814-1887)
Elizabeth (1817-1915)
Samuel (1819-1819)
Notes for Anna Hawks
Several sources give date of death as 30 Aug 1868, including a newspaper death notice posted on Lenawee Co. GenWeb.11,9,2,4 Death notice says she came to Michigan in 1833.4
Notes for Rufus (Spouse 1)
Other birthdates for Rufus Smead appear as 21 Oct 1756, 27 Oct 1757, and 26 Oct 1756. Need to check sources and identify most probable date.

Rufus settled in Shelburne ca. 1810, moved to Bolton NY, then returned to Shelburne, from which he moved to Adrian, Michigan, in 1834.11

Question: What year did Rufus die, 20 Feb 1848 or 1840?
Last Modified 15 Feb 2001 Created 9 Dec 2005 by Reunion for Macintosh

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