Vina (Dalton) Hawkins (abt. 1822 - 1910)

Born about 1822 in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States

Died 17 May 1910 at about age 88 in Winston, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States

Biography

Vina (Dalton) Hawkins is a part of US Black heritage.

Vina was born about 1822 in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States. Her death certificate says that her parents were named Adam and Mary Dalton.^[1] She was enslaved in her early life. In the period before emancipation, she was enslaved by Joel Hawkins of Stokes County, North Carolina. She was the cook for the "big house" and her son Tap remembered her always keeping a jar of doughnuts and cookies in the kitchen.^[2]

Vina was married to Patrick Hawkins and they began living together as man and wife around 1846.^[3] They had ten children: Phyllis, Martha, Hetty, Gabe, Kit, William, Sam, Jack, Moses, and Tap. Their son Tap said that after the American Civil War, the family stayed on Joel Hawkins's land and sharecropped tobacco and corn.^[2] In 1870, they were living in Snow Creek Township, Stokes County, North Carolina.^[4] Vina's husband Patrick died before 1880. For a while after his death, VIna remained in Snow Creek Township, living with her children,^[5] but by 1900, she had moved to Forsyth County, North Carolina with some of her children.^[6][7]

Vina died on 17 May 1910 in Winston, Forsyth County, North Carolina.^[1]

Slave Owners

• Joel Hawkins of Stokes County, North Carolina^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} North Carolina, Death Certificates, Vina Hawkins, 17 May 1910, Winston, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA; "North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976," database with images, Ancestry.com, Ancestry Sharing Link, Ancestry Record 1121 #233097 (accessed 16 July 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Son Tap Hawkins' WPA ex-slave narrative:
   The Ohio Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, Tap Hawkins ex-slave narrative; State Archives; Ohio History Connection; "African American Experience in Ohio," Ohio History Connection, (https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll98/id/20 : accessed 7 Jul 2022).
3. ↑ North Carolina, Stokes County Co-Habitation Records, 1850-1872, page 46, Patrick Hawkins and Viney Hawkins, co-habitation beginning about 1846 and registered 31 Aug 1866; "North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011," database with images, Ancestry.com, Ancestry Sharing Link, Ancestry Record 60548 #1172318 (accessed 16 July 2022).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," Snow Creek Township, Stokes County, North Carolina, USA; page 27, family 180, lines 8-15, Viney Hawkins in Patrick Hawkins household; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWD3-V9Z
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," ED 248, Snow Creek Township, Stokes County, North Carolina, USA; page 30, family 271, lines 41-47, Vina Hawkins household; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCX5-7WG
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", ED 27, Middle Fork Township, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA; sheet 8B, family 158, lines 92-95, Vina Hawkins in William P Hawkins household; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSY6-N24
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," ED 74, Winston Ward 3, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA; sheet 31A, family 730, lines 10-11, Vina Hawkins in Phillis Wilkins household; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML96-392