Hawkins County
Genealogy and History
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
This county is available for adoption.
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 joining our group as County Host for this website, or 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 your transcribed data to us and we'll take care of putting it online.
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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.
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Surrounding Counties
Grainger -- Greene -- Hamblen -- Hancock
Sullivan -- Washington
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