HISTORYOF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TOTHE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES,NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884. WASHINGTONTWP. PAGE 425 Surnames in this biography are: Hawkins, Aikman,Casey JOHN A.HAWKINS, farmer and stock-raiser, was born near where he now resides, in Washington Township, October 15,1848, and is one of four living children in a family of eight born to Jonathan and Elizabeth (Aikman) Hawkins, who came from Daviess County to Greene County, Ind., in 1847, where they died in about 1871 and 1878 respectively, members of long standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church. John A. Hawkins was reared in his native county, receiving in youth but a common school education, and on attaining his majority began doing for himself. He selected farming as his vocation, through life, as did his father before him, and is the present owner of 123 acresof good farming and grazing land. In 1872, he was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Casey, who was born in Tennessee, May 25,1849, a daughter of Dempsy and Dicy Casey, and by heris the father of three daughters, named Ida Belle, Dicy Elizabeth and Louisa.Mr. Hawkins is an enterprising and progressive citizen, a Republican in politics, and himself and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.