This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hawley, Washington Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1669 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 3, 1907. "UNCLE LIGE IS AN OLD-TIMER. E.R. Hawley of Percival Tells the Herald Man a Few Things of the Long Ago".--E.R. Hawley of Percival is making a visit at the home of his son, H..E. Hawley of this place and on last Wednesday as the elder Hawley was passing about our streets, he called at the Herald office and his brief stay was highly appreciated. Mr. Hawley is one of the early settlers of Fremont county, having come to Civil Bend near where Percival now stands in 1864 where he took a tract of land and began its improvement. For many years his farm was the only one fenced in that locality and very nearly all of the Missouri bottom in Benton township was unbroken and the grass grew in great abundance. About 1867 when the K.C. railroad was built and Percival was established Mr. Hawley concluded to try his fortune as a merchant and engaged in the grocery busines which he conducted for several years. He has been one of the active men in bringing to bear many of the prosperous events of Fremont county and has lived to see the fruits of his labors. Time and space forbids an extended write-up of "Uncle Lige" as he is familiarly known, and suffice to say that he was in a reminescent mood and feeling at his best so that his jokes and "down east" expressions (being a Vermonter) were listened to with the deepest linterest. He never fails to recall the incident of going with the Percival band to Council Bluffs to play for a political rally. His grandfather, John Hawley, was captain in the Revolutionary war and is said to have been with George Washington. At the battle of Bennington, Vermont, Captain Hawley distinguished himself for gallant service and was presented by the ladies of that place, with a military scarf which E.R. Hawley now has in his possession. Before taking his departure from our office, Mr. Hawley spoke regarding his age and stated that the 87th milestone was passed on the 31st of March, 1907.