Hawkins County was founded in 1786 and was named in honor of Benjamin Hawkins. He was a member of the Continental Congress from North Carolina, U. S. senator from North Carolina 1789-1795. He signed the Deed of Cession conveying the Southwest Territory to Federal Government, which is now the state of Tennessee.

We're looking for folks who share our desire to put data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it.

If you are interested in joining our group as County Host for any of our websites, view our Volunteer Information page and Email Kim. A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a basic webpage is required.

In the meantime, we'd be very happy to accept any data you'd care to contribute and would like to see displayed on this site. We're looking for "raw data" - the birth/death/marriage records, obituaries, cemetery headstone readings, biographies, county histories, census data, pensions and other military data. In short, we'd like to display all the items you used to put together your family tree (rather than the tree itself). Email Darlene your transcribed data and we'll take care of putting it online.

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