This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hawn, Whitener, Albright, Pridy, Mouser, Hevrin Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SSB.2ACE/2233 Message Board Post: History of Southeast Missouri, Goodspeeds 1880, pg. 831, Bollinger County, MO AARON M. HAWN Aaron M. Hawn, a prosperous young farmer of Bollinger County, Mo., is a son of Alfred and Caroline E. (Whitener) Hawn, natives of North Carolina. When by seven years of age, Alfred Hawn came with his parents to Cape Girardeau County, Mo. He was married in 1848, after which he located on a farm in Bollinger County; but in 1867, he removed to Madison County, Mo. He and wife were the parents of eleven children, viz.: Nathan G., Aaron M., Martha J. (now the wife of Thomas Albright), Rosa A., Sara E. (the wife of J. J. Pridy), Josephine (the wife of William A. Mouser), Oliver B., Catherine, Dora, Henry B. and Felix. Aaron M. was born in Bollinger County in 1851, and was reared at the home of his parents, receiving a good education. For twelve years he was engaged in teaching in the public schools during the winter season and working on the farm during the summer. In 1878, he was united in marriage with Miss Nannie A. Hevrin, who was born in 1861. After his marriage, Mr. Hawn located on a farm in Bollinger County, where he has since resided, engaged in tilling the soil. He is an enterprising citizen, and he and wife have a nice family of five children: Otto D., Rochester H. Mettie V., Almer Z. and Ethel C.