NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. This biography was provided by Teddy (Gray) Brock on our list. 11186 FRANKLIN CO – DR. RICHARD T. HAWKINS – Hawkins, Bankhead, Morris, Hopkins, Frazier, Patton #11186: Pike County, Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa Mills and Company, 1883, pp. 413-415. Franklin Co. DR. RICHARD T. HAWKINS was born in Franklin county, Kentucky, on May 11, 1816. When but a child his father removed to Woodford county, and here the subject of our sketch was reared. After receiving an ordinary English education, he commenced the study of medicine, and finally graduated at Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, in March, 1838, and four days after receiving his diploma he started to Mississippi, and settled at DeKalb, in Kemper county, where, however, he remained but a few months, as he got back to Kentucky about the first of August of the same year. In the October following Dr. Hawkins moved to Missouri, and about the 22d or 23d of that month he settled at Paynesville, where he remained, actively at work, until 1849, when he removed to the Lost Creek neighborhood, but only stayed there one year, when he again returned to Paynesville. After remaining at Paynesville for many years Dr. Hawkins went to Prairieville, but remained only a short time, comparatively, when he again went back to his first love, so to say, and with Dr. Bankhead, his old partner, renewed the practice of his profession in his chosen field and among his old friends. He continued at Paynesville until about the year 1879, when he removed to Ellsberry, where he at present resides. Dr. Hawkins was twice married; first to Mary Morris Hopkins, of New Troy, Missouri, on the 11th day of April, 1839, by whom he had six children; and having lost his wife on April 4, 1857, and after remaining a widower for about twelve years he was again married, to Mrs. Sallie E. Frazier, daughter of the late Thos. D. Patton, on the 25th of July, 1863. Three children blessed this union, whom the affectionate wife and devoted mother was not spared to raise. Mrs. Hawkins died May 18, 1875, and again her husband, now in advanced life, was left alone. As a physician Dr. Hawkins has had few, if any superiors in the county; as a man he has given the energies of a long and useful life for the good of the public; and as a philanthropist, without claiming to be one, he has devoted his life mostly to the poor of Pike and Lincoln counties. He has probably ridden more miles than any man in northeast Missouri; he has carried joy to the palace of the rich, and food as well as medicine to the cottage of the poor. If he has sat beside the bed of the wealth invalid, and feasted at his table, so also has he nursed the indigent patient and even prepared for them the food which his own generosity had supplied. As to the wealth of this would he would be accounted poor; poorer than when he first entered upon a practice, that, had he to-day its legitimate proceeds, would make him wealthy. He has never valued money for its own sake, but for the good he might accomplish with it; hence, he has been a poor collector, while always ready to divide his last dollar with a friend, or those whose necessities appeared to be greater than his own. Among his professional brethren Dr. Hawkins is held in the highest esteem, and his opinion upon any subject connected with the practice of the country is regarded as worthy of the greatest consideration. To honor such a man while living is the greatest delight of those who have known him longest and best, and when he shall have passed away, as soon he must, another and an abler pen can, with more freedom, chronicle those exhaulted [sic] virtues that must forever be perpetuated. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch