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1 CONC 1901 Census of Canada Page Information District: ON WELLINGTON (Centre) (#
1 CONC 124) Subdistrict: Garafraxa (East/Est) D-1 Page 13 family #122
1 CONT Haws Martin M Head M Apr 20 1861 39
1 CONT Haws Mazie F Wife M Jan 3 1868 33
1 CONT Haws Merriot R M Son S Jul 2 1892 8
1 CONT
1 CONT Martin's obituary was in the Jan. 24, 1929 edition of the Erin Advocat
1 CONC e, a copy is on file and it reads as follows:  Hawes  On January 11th, a h
1 CONC ighly respected citizen passed quietly to his rest in the person of Mart
1 CONC in Hawes.  With great grace and Christian fortitude he bore his illness f
1 CONC or nearly five years.  He was born on Lot 7, Con. 11, East Garafraxa, Apr
1 CONC il 20th, 1861, the third son of the late Horace Hawes, who came to Cana
1 CONC da in the year 1886 from England, and cleared out of the dense forests, t
1 CONC he farm still being held by the family.  He was one of a family of ten a
1 CONC nd in 1889, untied in marriage with Maisie Smith of Erin Township.  To th
1 CONC is union there were born two sons; M. Ross and Horace Martin, the latter d
1 CONC ying in childhood.  Mr Hawes farmed for several years after his marria
1 CONC ge in East Garafraxa and in 1903 moved with his family to New Ontario, set
1 CONC tling in the Dryden Clay Belt in the district of Kenora.  He began maki
1 CONC ng a home out of the wilderness and had made a success of farming in th
1 CONC at new country when there were no roads, no schools or churches, and help
1 CONC ed in every way to make that part of the country what is now a prospero
1 CONC us and progressive farming community.  He was a councillor for several yea
1 CONC rs in the municipality of Machin, and by his kind and gentle manner, ma
1 CONC de a host of friends.  In 1922 he disposed of his farm, in Sanford and ca
1 CONC me back tot he scene of his childhood and bought a residence in Hillsbur
1 CONC g, where he lived until his death.  He leaves to mourn the loss of a devot
1 CONC ed husband and father, his wife, one son and two grand-children; four brot
1 CONC hers, four sisters; John F and George of East Garafraxa; Holly and Allis
1 CONC on of Meaford; Mrs Geo. Simpson, Waldemar; Mrs. W. E. Nodwell, Mrs R. Nodw
1 CONC ell, Mrs. R. Mann of Hillsburg.  One brother Wm., predeceased him.  Frien
1 CONC ds from a distance who attended the funeral were his son Ross, station age
1 CONC nt at McConnell Manitoba; H. Hawes Meaford and friends from Guelph, Fergu
1 CONC s, Grand Valley and Everton.  The pall bearers were his nephews, J. Haws
1 CONC e, W. Hawse and H. Hawse.  H. Simpson, W. Nodwell, and E. Mann.  The funer
1 CONC al took place from his late residence on January 15th, his pastor, Re
1 CONC v. C. Jolliffe of the United Church conducted the services at the home a
1 CONC nd grave, when a large concourse of friends assembled to pay the last resp
1 CONC ects to the departed.  The floral tributes were mute evidence of the este
1 CONC em in which the deceased was held.
1 CONT
1 CONT Vital Statistics Index HAWES, Marten, m, January 11, 1929, 67 years 3 mont
1 CONC hs 20 days, Ontario, cause Â– broncho pneumonia & paresis, burial Prices Co
1 CONC rners, farmer, infm Wm NODWELL brother in law, parents Horace HAWES born E
1 CONC ngland & Ann REDMAN born Ontario, Hillsburg, Erin Twp (Wellington Co.) 037
1 CONC 187-29
1 CONT
1 CONT Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1932 Record info about Martin Hawes
1 CONT Name: Martin Hawes Death Date: 11 Jan 1929 Death Location: Wellington Gend
1 CONC er: Male Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862 Birth Location: On  William Nodwel
1 CONC l, his brother in law, was the informant on his death.